Good data, great dashboards

Are you seeing the value in your data?

In this series the team at White Box takes a look at visualisation best practice, covering all manner of dashboarding techniques to optimise your reporting tools.

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We introduced this series by showing the importance of setting your objectives. One outcome of that will be to have whittled down a long stakeholder wish list to a clear and compact list of priority visual components (do save the wish list though for future builds or drill-throughs).

It follows from reducing the amount of content that less of the available canvas will be used. Many will view this as sacrilege: why waste the space?

But this is like riding on packed public transport – great for capacity utilisation but not much of a user experience. Dashboard elements are like those passengers, let them breathe!

White space (or whatever colour your dashboard background happens to be) allows the human eye the opportunity to distinguish between dashboard elements more easily and discern the difference in significance accordingly.

It also adds polish to your dashboard design, enhancing credibility and thus engagement with users.

So don’t be tempted to overload – less is definitely more. In a perfect world, the target audience can look at a dashboard and take in everything they need to know to act, investigate, or maybe celebrate, in a couple of seconds.

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