10 Best Practices for Building Effective Dashboards

A well-designed dashboard is a powerful launch point for data-driven conversations. Armed with the same collection of information, your business makes faster decisions based on a single source of truth.

This whitepaper will teach you best practices for building the most effective dashboards for your audience—walking you through three sections of use cases and examples:

• Thoughtful planning will allow you to become familiar with your dashboard audience, evaluate proper display size, and appropriately plan for fast load times.
• Informed design draws from the “sweet spot” of visual cues. It is critical of view and color quantity, incorporates interactivity to encourage exploration, and considers progressive formatting.
• Refining your dashboard emphasizes user testing, puts the onus on tooltips, helps you showcase the story within your story, and eliminates clutter.