Your thoughts on Information Display Design in Dynamic Environment

As an industrial designer in the automotive industry, I often see the industry’s effort and attempt to redefine information design/display in a dynamic environment.

And especially in recent Detroit autoshows, we notice growing number of items listed below in production vehicles.

* Information displays

* Navigation systems

* Multicontrollers

-joystick-type controller to navigate through information
on everything from current car-status, weather, map, radio, A/C…

* Displays for Integrated Cellular phones and Web-accessible PDAs

I would like to know what your thoughts are on this topic of Information design in Dynamic environments, where one has a very limited time for attention.

Where, how do you draw the line and limit information available for driving safety?

Is current, automotive instrument cluster, a well-designed example of information design?

et cetera…..

Just curious on how “non-automotive” minds are thinking on this subject.

Sincerely,

Sangwon Choi