Dashboard-design: the common mistakes
I’m doing some counceling and consulting for a french campagny designing a fully online project-management and collaboration tool and one of the challenge is to reorganize the summary of the project in an overview allowing to have a quick look at the state of the project and allow users to plannify in consequence. Hence, I dove back in Stephen Few’s book “Information dashboard design”
It is worth gathering back here Few’s 13 common mistakes in dashboard design, as dos and don’ts heuristics:
- Exceeding the boundaries of a single screen
- Supplying inadequate context for the data
- Displaying excessive detail or precision
- choosing a deficient measure
- Choosing inappropriate display media
- Introducing meaningless variety
- Using poorly designed display media
- Encoding quantitative data inaccurately
- Arranging the data poorly
- Highlighting important data ineffectively or not at all
- Cluttering the display with useless decoration
- Misusing or overusing color
- Designing an unattractive visual display
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