The most important step towards designing a dashboard is to know about the audience for whom you are creating the dashboard and what value will it provide to them.
A usable dashboard should be Clear, Meaningful, Consistent, and Simple.
Below are a few important tips to design a useful dashboard for your audience.
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1. Simplicity
The real purpose of the dashboard is to present complex information in an understandable and simpler form.
- Don’t provide a lot of information that would be difficult to absorb for the user.
- Use fewer columns to display information.
- Reduce clutter by removing redundant content.
2. Consistency
A dashboard looks better when it is designed using a consistent layout.
- To make your dashboard easier to read, use similar visualizations and layouts between groups.
- Put related information closer to each other.
- Group related content visually.
3. Proximity
Displaying related information together in a dashboard will help the user to understand it quickly.
- Put related information closer to each other.
- Don’t scatter related information across the dashboard.
- Group related content visually.
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4. Whitespace
Whitespace is as necessary to design as air to breathe. It provides a breathing space to the user when he is using your design.
- Whitespace in the dashboard design appeals to the user when he comes to see the information.
- Reducing whitespace will overwhelm the user with a cluttered view.
- Use whitespace to group related information visually.
5. Alignment
The elements of a dashboard need to align visually to make it a balanced look.
- Do align dashboard elements with each other to organize them better.
- Try to place dashboard widgets in a Grid view.
- An unaligned view does not give a good impact on the user.
Conclusion
Dashboards are intended to save time and effort, providing a simpler representation of complex and abstract data. The purpose of a dashboard is to communicate critical information to your audience in a way they can understand. Make sure to deliver what your audience needs and then they need the information.
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