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Dashboard Design Trends: By: Shilpi Choudhury

The document discusses trends in dashboard design, including responsive layouts, metro layouts, interactive features, sparklines, trendlines, progress bars, labeled icons, real-time updates, alerts, location awareness, and broader color palettes. It provides examples and explanations of each trend.

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Dashboard Design Trends: By: Shilpi Choudhury

The document discusses trends in dashboard design, including responsive layouts, metro layouts, interactive features, sparklines, trendlines, progress bars, labeled icons, real-time updates, alerts, location awareness, and broader color palettes. It provides examples and explanations of each trend.

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Dashboard Design Trends

By: Shilpi Choudhury


Then…

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Now, thanks to technology,
information has become more accessible.

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A study conducted by the
Aberdeen Group in 2013 found that
more and more enterprise decision makers,

while performing their tasks in traditional CRM,


ERP and other business applications, are looking for better visibility,

better reporting and quicker access to performance metrics.


Source: Data, Discovery, Action , Aberdeen Group, 2013
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The information dashboard
is emerging into a holistic decision making tool
providing users with key insights into their
performance metrics
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Here’s our list of design trends
that are determining the look and feel of the modern day
dashboards

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1 2 3 4 5
Responsive Metro Interactive Sparklines Trendlines &
Layout Layout Feature Progress Bar

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Labeled Real-time Alerts Location Broader Color
Icons Updates Aware Palette

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Responsive
Layout

With smartphones, tablets and the plethora of other mobile devices becoming
mainstream, users need information on the move, ushering in the trend to design
dashboards that are responsive and adapt to the viewing media.

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2
Metro
Layout

Grid-based layout, good use of whitespace, more dependency on typography and


minimalist graphics of the metro layout ensures that the story is communicated in
a clear and concise manner.

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3
Interactive
Features

Capabilities like drill down, zooming, directly editable charts and reports that can be
exported in multiple formats are opening up new possibilities of exploring data.

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4
Sparklines

When real estate is an issue, sparklines and other word-sized charts help in providing a
quick sense of historical context without consuming too much space.

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5
Trendlines &
Progress Bars

Help answer questions like how far is the latest measure from achieving the target, or is
the current measure better when compared to the previous one. Makes the data more
meaningful and relevant for users.

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Labeled
Icons

A small icon followed by a 1-2 word description ensures that new users are
not left guessing.

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Real-time
Updates

Due to technological developments in both in-stream and ad-hoc processing, it’s much
easier now to get real-time updates on the dashboard directly.

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Alerts

Many dashboards allow end users to set up alerts so that they can be notified when a
metric reaches a certain threshold value.

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Location
Aware

Popularity of technologies like GPS, RFID and other location-aware wireless devices
have led to the possibility of monitoring location-based metrics. GPS-powered mobile
dashboards will also help prioritize information by geographic proximity.

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10
Broader Color
Palette

From shades of gray with a few bright colors as accents to bold and uncommon color
combinations to everything in between, today’s dashboards are seeing skillful use of a
broader color palette.

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To Trend or Not To Trend:
Mascots?

Some find them humorous, some helpful guides while some others
think they are distractions

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Now over to you.

What trends do you see emerge in


information dashboard designs?

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data visualization?
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