10 best practices for building effective dashboards
Creating compelling, informative and powerful dashboards.
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When a dashboard is done right, people wonder how they ever lived without it. Why? A well-designed dashboard is a launch point for your analytics. Armed with the same powerful collection of information, your business makes faster decisions based on a single source of truth.
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- Thoughtful planning will allow you to become familiar with your dashboard audience, evaluate proper display size and plan for fast load times appropriately.
- Informed design draws from the “sweet spot” of visual cues, is critical of view and colour quantity, incorporates interactivity to encourage exploration and considers progressive formatting.
- Refining your dashboard puts the onus on tooltips, emphasises the story within your story, eliminates clutter and sets you up for dashboard testing opportunities.
The Tableau dashboard has become the tool of choice for them to monitor how well they're doing on that project and that data cleanup initiative, as well as in the future on monitoring how they're doing from a data quality standpoint. So it's been key there.