· beginner
Dashboard Design and Storytelling
A report that gets used. Which question it answers, which visual answers it, where attention goes on the page, and how to say what the numbers mean without anyone standing next to the screen explaining.
Written in house, from the work rather than from a syllabus. Every example is one we would use ourselves, and every quiz question explains why its answer is right.
What you’ll learn
- State the question a report answers before building it
- Choose a visual from the comparison being made rather than from habit
- Lay out a page so the most important number is found first
- Use colour to carry meaning, and keep an axis honest
- Decide between a slicer, a drillthrough and a separate page
- Annotate a report so it survives being read without you
Before you start
- · Some exposure to charts and reports
- · No prior design training