What is Android Auto?
A driving-safe mode for your favorite apps.
Android Auto is a safe, connected experience for driving with your
favorite apps. Currently launched to ~30 car manufacturers with 50+ apps, I led UX for voice actions and predictive suggestions in the car, balancing cognitive load, minimizing driver distraction, and taking into account multi-modal input, rotary, and capacitive, resistive screens.
The Challenge
When Android introduced cards, they taught users to swipe to dismiss them. However, what does this phone-centric interaction mean in the car? Especially for safety?
The Solution: Unified interaction patterns
The solution needs to work with:
- Touch only
- Touch on resistive screens
- Rotary only
- Touch AND rotary (Need the ability to switch modes)
As well as Portrait & Landscape on mobile, and various head unit sizes for car screens.
Visual polish
Once the interaction patterns were reviewed by the UX, Product, and Eng team, we moved into high-fidelity visual polish. I worked with a visual designer to iterate.