Tag: Dashboard Design

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Shafeeq Rahaman & Mahe Jabeen Abdul

The Power of Context: Making Data Stories Come Alive

Raw data can appear sterile without the human touch of thoughtful interpretation. Though information-packed charts and graphs showcase vital statistics, the “why should I care”..
The infographic displays Singapore’s low and stable 2-year recidivism rates with a line chart for 2006-2020, alongside a large iceberg illustration representing the hidden complexities of successful reintegration into society. It includes text sections on perseverance and external support, emphasizing the unseen challenges of reintegrating former offenders.T
Kaushik Kompella

Tips & Tricks to Improve your Dashboard Design

Learn how to use data context, visual flow, color, typography, and appeal to create engaging data visualizations for business users.
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Alex Kolokolov

From Analysis to Improvement: How Students Transform Projects

A design exploration to improve a global conflict dashboard with a new layout and interactivity.
An image of two dashboards. One is partly covered by a sad face emoji, the other partly covered by a happy face emoji.W
Alex Kolokolov

We Cannot Give Up on the Data Viz Renegades!

Data viz renegades are often resistant to learn how to properly visually communicate the data that they work with. Here's how to help them.
Hyper-realistic AI-generated image depicting a people's eyes gazing intently at intricate graphs and data, blending human and technological perspectives.M
Erdni Okonov

Making Dashboards Optimal for Human Brain Processing

How the science behind brain processing and active memory can help guide our dashboard and other data visual designs.
A view of the final dashboard. At the top are the filter buttons to select countries by characteristics (region or income) and a shuffle button that randomized the selection for you. Below that is the radial diagram and to its right is a dot plot, allowing for a deeper dive into the metric.F
Lindsey Poulter

Finding The Right Elements For an Award-Winning Dashboard

Lindsey Poulter won the World Data Viz Prize using a mix of dashboard features—including a shuffle button to randomize the view.
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Kat Greenbrook

Reasons to Visualise the Same Data, Differently

You may have heard, “data visualisation should tell a story” – but this is not always true. Data visuals are created for many reasons: from..
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Ama Nyame-Mensah

Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Two Points of Change

People love comparisons, whether between two groups or the difference in an outcome between two time points. Many data (visualization) designers use a clustered bar..
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Erica Gunn

Why Can’t We Have More Fun?

This is part 8 in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..
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Eli Holder

Dashboard Psychology: Effective Feedback in Data Design

“What you measure, you improve.” You’ve heard this a million times. It sounds nice. It seems plausible. There’s a bunch of evidence supporting it. But..
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Walter Paixão Côrtes

How to Use Grafana for Data Visualization

Chances are, if your data visualization background comes from outside of IT, you have never heard anything about Grafana. Grafana has primarily been used for..
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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: A Look at Chart Choices

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. In the last installment, we thought through the purpose..
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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: Understanding Purpose

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous installments focused on understanding the audience and..
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Silvia Romanelli

Engaging Your Dashboard Users through User Testing

User testing is not common practice in internal KPI dashboard projects. Yet, it can bring much valuable insight, helping create a better user experience. On..