Improving the in-car dashboard and console presentation notes

Overview

Here are the slides and research notes for the lighting talk presentation I did at Visualising Data London.

There's a trend for digital displays replacing physical gauges, lights and buttons inside cars. However, the software that powers them is pretty bad. Here are a few improvements that will help a lot.

Slides

Link to Google Slides or download them as a PDF

Research

General

• Why The Car Industry Needs To Rethink The Dashboard User Interface Design
• Car Dashboard UI Collection

Warning lights

• Most Drivers Baffled by Dashboard Lights
• Car dashboard warning lights explained

Is the speedometer and other dials still useful?

• Speedometer Design: Why It Works
• The tachometer – the most useless car component… at Commonsense Design
• Ustwo reimagines the in-car cluster

Smart dashboard

• OSLO - multimodal car display concept

Further reading

• Human machine interfaces

• Usability evaluation of fuel gauges for hybrid electric vehicles

• Usability of Car Dashboard Displays for Elder Drivers