Visteon: Best Connected Cockpit UX Design Global 2016

Visteon designs, engineers, and manufactures vehicle cockpit electronic products and connected car solutions for various clients, including BMW, Daimler, Ford, and General Motors.

The cockpit electronics market is one of the fastest-growing areas of the automotive industry – expected to have between 40-45% market share within the next decade. As one of the leading global automotive suppliers – and the only one focused exclusively on cockpit electronics – Visteon is well-positioned to capitalise on this growth.

Vehicle interfaces were once separate direct-entry controls. Thanks to increased connectivity, vehicle controls have merged into a single interface. Now, electronic module consolidation brings new opportunities to improve the user experience (UX) for driver-driven vehicles, semi-autonomous vehicles, and, eventually, fully autonomous vehicles.

Visteon is leading the way in streamlining this increased demand of networking technologies, processing power, driver information, infotainment, and connectivity. The firm’s SmartCore Connected Cockpit Multi-Domain Controller is an industry first – and changes the idea of traditional infotainment systems. It is an application-based cockpit domain controller which allows the user to change and grow the vehicle’s feature set over its lifetime.

The SmartCore is a one chip multi-domain controller featuring a single integrated human-machine interface (HMI). This solution allows multiple domains to run together on scalable hardware using different operating systems, therefore greatly reducing the complexity of the system itself.

The CFI.co judging panel applauds Visteon’s embrace of the rapidly changing automotive industry and subsequent domination of its growing niche. The judges are happy to name Visteon winner of the 2016 Best Connected Cockpit UX Design Global Award.