Lesson 9: Information Dashboard Design

Content

• Introducing information dashboard
• Information dashboard design best practices
• Common mistakes in dashboard design
• Ideal graphs for information dashboard
  • Bullet graph
  • Sparklines
  • Bandlines

Lesson Slides and Hands-on Notes

• Lesson slides in html and pdf formats

• Handout of Hands-on Exercise 9 in html format.

Reference

Core Readings

• Bullet Graph Design Specification

Additional Readings

• Dashboard Confusion
• Dashboard Confusion Revisited
• Dashboard Design for Rich and Rapid Monitoring
• Pervasive Hurdles to Effective Dashboard Design
• Assessing the Effectiveness of a New Dashboard’s Design
• Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love
• Dashboard Design: Taking a Metaphor Too Far
• Why Most Dashboards Fail
• Patent Failure: The USPTO’s Oversized but Undernourished New Dashboard
• Oracle-Have you no shame?
• The Vicious Cycle of Data Impoverishment