Being 22 years in the fields of HCI, Helmut Windl currently works for Panasonic Automotive Europe near Frankfurt where he manages the Advanced Product Planning Group. Before he headed the HMI Design group at Continental Automotive’s Infotainment & Connectivity division. He was responsible for the visual and interaction design of infotainment concepts and products and created user interfaces for multimedia systems of European and US American cars. At Siemens’ Automation & Drives Division he founded and headed the Usability Competence Center and designed award winning PLC programming Software for the industrial automation product family Simatic S7. Helmut Windl is a world-class interaction designer and experienced visual designer for large-scale software applications as well as embedded systems. He has a track record as inventor of more than 20 patents mainly in the field of human computer interaction. He is a practitioner of activity centered design and co-developed the abstract prototyping using canonical components and contributed additions to Usage-Centered Design like Usage-Centered Exploration. Helmut Windl graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg Germany with a diploma in electrical engineering.