To design effective dashboards, consider the following: understand your user persona and use case, utilize the right data visualizations, create a clean layout with an intuitive flow, and maintain consistency in the layout:
- Start with the user persona and use case, design the dashboard focused on serving this use case and provide context for the metrics and data shown.
- Use visualizations that best convey the data and keep the dashboard simple, avoiding overcrowding. Organize the layout according to importance, avoid horizontal scrolling, and maintain consistency in the layout and across dashboards.
- Keep the layout clean and easy to understand and use consistent color codes, graph types, and panel dimensions for visual correlation.
