Summary
Smart Dash was developed to meet a growing need for connectivity, safety features and seamless integration with apps, maps, and real-time data. Unlike passenger vehicles, a truck is a workplace and often a second home. When designing Smart Dash, this means designing a system that can carry the complexity of new features, while staying grounded in the everyday lives of professional drivers.
I work as UX Design Lead for one of the design teams, ensuring that design directions are aligned with project goals and user needs. I support designers in cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless integration of design and technical aspects.
Scania Smart Dash:
Designing the next generation of digital driver environments for Scania.
Automotive HMI, Interaction Design, Design Leadership
2022 - Current
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My role
I joined the project as an interaction designer in 2022. I was responsible of the startup and shutdown design experiences, screen and light modes, and vehicle states. Over time, I took on more responsibility, eventually stepping into a senior designer role and later UX Design Lead for the AFRY Design Satellite design team. I have worked across the entire design process from early concept development, testing and prototyping, refinement, finished design deliveries and quality assurance. In my role as a UX Design Lead today, I support designers to ensure that design directions are aligned with project goals and user needs, I work closely with developing teams, system architect teams, and requirement teams, to ensure the best collaboration between design and technical feasibility aspects.
Design approach
My design process is collaborative and cross-functional. I work closely with drivers, function owners, developers, architects, and Scania’s internal HMI team to ensure that every design proposal is grounded in real use cases and aligned with Scania’s design strategy and planning goals. For me it is important that each design iteration is shaped by continuous dialogue between design, system architecture, and development teams, balancing user needs with technical feasibility. Design decisions are made with an eye toward clarity, consistency, and long-term maintainability, supporting a platform built to evolve over time.
We work in an agile setup, using JIRA to track progress and stay aligned across teams. Figma is our central tool for everything from early wireframes to refined prototypes and developer handoffs and is my main tool as a designer.
Design outcome
The result of the design work is the interaction behaviours and UI interface for the new generation of Scania vehicles, Smart Dash. It carefully balances modern functionality with the robustness required in heavy-duty transport. Smart Dash consists of a driver display and a side infotainment unit, designed to work together across vehicle types, use cases, and user needs.
With a customisable layout system it adapts to different driving modes and user contexts, maintaining clarity even under demanding conditions. Critical vehicle information is always accessible, while interaction patterns and screen views are designed to minimise distraction and cognitive load. Visual hierarchies and interaction zones are carefully tuned to support quick glances and reachability.
