Piotr Klarowski Unveils ‘Sketch to Dashboard’ Framework: A New Standard for Automotive Interface Design Pipelines

London / [09 October 2025] — Piotr Klarowski, a senior product designer known for his work in automotive UX and human–machine interfaces (HMI), today published a new design framework titled “Sketch to Dashboard”, advocating for a more structured, research-driven pipeline in automotive interface development. The release of his article on Medium signals a push for higher rigour and coherence in how in-vehicle digital experiments are conceptualized, tested, and delivered.

Piotr Klarowski is already well known in automotive design circles for his career spanning major organizations, including contributions at Toyota’s Advanced UX (Woven by Toyota), the EV startup Arrival, and Samsung. His perspective is rooted in over ten years of designing for ADAS, EVs, autonomous systems, and connected vehicle platforms.

In “Sketch to Dashboard,” Klarowski lays out a four-phase pipeline:

1. Sketching & Ideation — Using hand sketches and low-fi visual explorations as a way to rapidly explore and align interaction possibilities. He emphasizes that this phase is not superficial but critical to defining usability constraints and mental models early.
2. Research & Validation — Grounding sketches in data and user testing to validate conceptual directions. In his prior roles at Toyota, Klarowski has worked within multidisciplinary groups on next-generation HMI systems, aligning design with safety, usability, and system constraints.
3. Prototyping & System Integration — Translating validated ideas into interactive prototypes across multiple fidelities, bridging to engineering. His experience at Arrival, where design and engineering worked closely during EV product development, serves as a backdrop to this part of the pipeline.
4. Dashboard Implementation & Ecosystem Thinking — The final in-vehicle interface must not only be polished, but also positioned within a larger system of vehicle, connectivity, and future mobility flows. As Klarowski notes, dashboards are not isolated artifacts but nodes in a broader ecosystem.

Klarowski underscores that the strength of this pipeline lies in its balance of craft and discipline: combining bold design thinking with disciplined validation and iteration. He contends this direction helps prevent common pitfalls in automotive UX—overreliance on component-level polish without systemic coherence or user understanding.

In his Medium author profile, Klarowski identifies himself as Senior Product Designer (Automotive UX, HMI, ADAS, EV, AV) and mentions having worked for Toyota, Arrival, Samsung and others.

The public release of “Sketch to Dashboard” coincides with a broader push in the automotive industry toward software-defined vehicles, where digital experience is becoming as critical as hardware performance. As connected-car architectures become more modular and updateable, having robust UX pipelines is increasingly important—not just for user delight, but for usability, maintainability, and safety.

Klarowski’s framework arrives at a moment when OEMs, mobility platforms, and suppliers are reevaluating how they design interfaces—not as standalone features, but as integrated parts of mobility ecosystems. The “Sketch to Dashboard” approach offers a blueprint for companies seeking to raise the bar in how they design, test, and deliver next-gen vehicle HMI.

About Piotr Klarowski
Piotr Klarowski is a London-based senior product designer specializing in automotive UX and human–machine interface design. Over his career, he has collaborated with Toyota, Arrival, and Samsung, working across ADAS, EV, AV, and connected vehicle systems. He is also a public writer and speaker on mobility UX topics, focusing on how design can contribute to safe, usable, and forward-looking transportation systems.