I've built dozens of dashboards. Most have been ignored. A few have been used constantly. The...
I've built dozens of dashboards. Most have been ignored. A few have been used constantly. The difference isn't the graphs. It's the design.
The 3-second test
A useful dashboard answers 'is everything OK?' in 3 seconds. Not 'let me scroll through 40 graphs to find out.'
Big colored header at the top: green = healthy, yellow = watching, red = broken. That's the 3-second answer. Everything else is drill-down.
The hierarchy rule
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Every dashboard project I have taken on was described to me as a front end problem. Charts, filters,...
