The inventive concepts relate to a method executable on an interactive system of a vehicle with a touch-sensitive display, the touch-sensitive display including a screen configuration divided into a main area and a plurality of short-cut areas. Each short-cut area may be associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of applications and a pre-selected function of each application. The method may include displaying a representation of each of the plurality of applications in a corresponding one of the short-cut areas, displaying information on one of the plurality of applications in the main area, wherein at least two applications are running, and executing a pre-selected function of an application when a first type of finger gesture of a user is detected regardless of whether the first type of finger gesture is performed in the main area or in a short-cut area.