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Effective Dashboard Design: Why Your Baby Is Ugly

5 Ratings: 3.0

2010 SXSWi Panel with Aaron Hursman

Event Description: Effective dashboard design delivers on the promise of targeted, accessible, and actionable information for organizations looking to maximize their profits. Through good, bad, and very ugly examples, you will learn about … see full wiki

Tags: Events, Sxswi 2010, Panel, Tuesday March 16, Design & Development, Aaron Hursman

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Visuals are important, not the numbers

Mar 21, 2010

by DavGarcia
posted in SXSW on Lunch

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Biggest Takeaway
The visuals are the most important part of a dashboard. You can usually do without the numbers or hide them in drilldowns or rollovers. You can almost always remove tabular data.

People comprehend information by using comparison and finding patterns. For example, use a red diamond to draw attention to issues. Things that are good or neutral can usually be left unadorned since only the bad events are what really matters. If everything is color coded green, yellow, red, the red does not stand out. If you only color the bad things red and leave the others as grey then it is really easy to spot problems from afar.

Best Quote
"Dashboards are for monitoring! Let me know if there are any problems, otherwise I'm going to go back to work."

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devora March 22, 2010

Very interesting panel. I'm always interested in how these things get designed and what gets prioritized. If you're interesed in UX, you might be interested in this User Experience Design Resources community. Thanks for sharing this, David! :)

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