Guide to Design Usable Dashboard
A Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love to Use
To get a Designing Dashboards Poster, go to: http://www/juiceanalytics.com/poster/
November 2009 © 2009-2010 Juice, Inc. All rights reserved.
Dashboard Design Matters
Dashboards have become a standard business tool over the last decade. Dozens of dashboard building solutions have sprung up to meet the demand. Yet in the flurry of technology and enthusiasm, little attention has been paid to how to design focused, thoughtful, and user-friendly dashboards. Our three-part guide will show you the concepts and give you the best practices to create a high-impact dashboard that people love to use. Traditional dashboard design focuses almost exclusively on defining the right success metrics, then piecing together a bunch of charts and gauges on a single page. These techniques yield dashboards with a hodgepodge appearance and confusing information.
Traditional dashboard design techniques result in confused solutions
This guide will help you design more intuitive and effective dashboards
In the early days of the world wide web, it was good enough to simply have the right information on the web page. The current industry-standard dashboards are no more ambitious. However, modern web design has moved on to seek a union of utility, usability and beauty. We must find a similar union when displaying data in business. This document approaches dashboard design in a holistic way, beginning with general goals and evolving to specific data presentation. Part 1: Foundation helps you identify your target audience, understand what type of dashboard you want to create and why it is valuable to your organization. It concludes guidance regarding how to focus your message
Juice Analytics creates dashboards that business people love to use. Check out some of our work at www.juiceanalytics.com/solutions/case_studies/. Contact us at info@juiceanalytics.com.
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To get a Designing Dashboards Poster, go to: http://www/juiceanalytics.com/poster/
November 2009 © 2009-2010 Juice, Inc. All rights reserved.
Dashboard Design Matters
Dashboards have become a standard business tool over the last decade. Dozens of dashboard building solutions have sprung up to meet the demand. Yet in the flurry of technology and enthusiasm, little attention has been paid to how to design focused, thoughtful, and user-friendly dashboards. Our three-part guide will show you the concepts and give you the best practices to create a high-impact dashboard that people love to use. Traditional dashboard design focuses almost exclusively on defining the right success metrics, then piecing together a bunch of charts and gauges on a single page. These techniques yield dashboards with a hodgepodge appearance and confusing information.
Traditional dashboard design techniques result in confused solutions
This guide will help you design more intuitive and effective dashboards
In the early days of the world wide web, it was good enough to simply have the right information on the web page. The current industry-standard dashboards are no more ambitious. However, modern web design has moved on to seek a union of utility, usability and beauty. We must find a similar union when displaying data in business. This document approaches dashboard design in a holistic way, beginning with general goals and evolving to specific data presentation. Part 1: Foundation helps you identify your target audience, understand what type of dashboard you want to create and why it is valuable to your organization. It concludes guidance regarding how to focus your message
Juice Analytics creates dashboards that business people love to use. Check out some of our work at www.juiceanalytics.com/solutions/case_studies/. Contact us at info@juiceanalytics.com.
October 2009
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