Visualizing Performance: Best Practices in Management Dashboard Design

Poor data dashboard design comes from poor requirements analysis. Typically, dashboard design is left to data visualization experts; providing senior management with a list of best practices helps to build dynamic and effective dashboards from the outset. In this module, participants will learn to:

• effectively engage with the end users to properly define the context of the dashboard
• understand the importance of narrative and storyboarding as part of the dashboard design process
• understand what design elements are key to engaging the end user
• what charts to use with specific types of data and storytelling objectives