As a designer, I know – everyone gets bored with design from time-to-time. You *could* imitate someone else’s design or flat-out use a template. But...
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How to Design a Print-Ready DivePort Page
Oftentimes, dashboard designers create a page that is so valuable to users that inevitably, someone wants to share the material as a PDF. When this...
How to Use a Feedback Loop to Refine Your Dashboard Design
There are tons of dashboard design examples on the Internet. Just Google "dashboard design examples" yourself and you'll see. (I got 1,060,000...
How to Determine the Ideal Screen Dimensions for Dashboards
My last Dashboard Design article focused on how to use the Law of Thirds and the Golden Rule to help designers layout their dashboards. In that...
How to Design a Dashboard When You’re Not a Graphic Designer
“I’m not a designer, dang it!” Does that sentiment sound familiar to you? You’re not alone. Lots of IT professionals find themselves in this...
How to Use Location Intelligence to Turbo-Charge Your Analytics
Location intelligence is not new. People have been analyzing demographic data by comparing region to region for many years. Just think of Walter...
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Storytelling with Business Intelligence
We hear a lot in the business intelligence (BI) world about the value of storytelling, and how certain BI platforms can help you tell a story with...
Should You Use Images on Your Dashboard? Here’s How to Find Out
To use images or not to use images? THAT is the question (well, one question) for dashboard developers. When is it a good time to use graphs, photos...
How to Use Hierarchy of Information to Simplify Your Dashboard
Companies invest a lot of money in business intelligence; as a result, you expect to receive information in an easy-to-view and intuitive format...
5 Steps to Creating a Cleaner Looking Dashboard
Dashboards are great, as they provide visualizations that help your users better understand your organization’s data at a quick glance. However, if...
How to Design a Dashboard for Colorblind Users
You may not realize it, but some of your users may be colorblind. Colorblindness is fairly common, with 8% of Caucasian men, 5% of Asian men and 4%...
3 Hacks for Better Dashboards
The purpose of business intelligence (BI) tools and dashboards is to provide a simple way to make sense of complex data. Unfortunately, when trying...
The Magic Bullet for Designing Better Dashboards
Have you ever looked at a dashboard and been overwhelmed by the various dials, charts and gauges? Did you spend more time deciphering than...
ColorCombos: Another Cool Color Tool
Our last Dashboard Design 101 article introduced you to Adobe Kuler, which offers a way for you to mix and match color combinations to use in web or...
Dashboard Visual Appeal | How to Create it for Your Dashboards
Are you interested in “dressing up” your dashboard interface? One easy way to do so is to leverage the existing corporate look and feel of your own...