Category: Dashboard Design

Adopting a UX Approach

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Adopting a Consistent, Clear, and Comprehensive Approach to UX that Aligns to Software Development

UX DESIGNERS HAVE A PROBLEM

Unlike with software development, where engineering approaches are generally well-defined and understood after 30+ years of the Internet at scale, UX design is still looked upon as a mysterious black box, or (worse) a brief step involving “prettying” up UI code … Read the rest

Design Process and Guidelines

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Guidelines

High-level Guidelines

Guidelines are numberd for convenience but are not ordered by any particular priority.

  1. Don’t overwhelm viewers
  2. Avoid visual clutter
  3. Avoid poor visual design
  4. Carefully chose KPIs
  5. Align with existing workflows
  6. Don’t add too much data
  7. Provide for consistency
  8. Provide for interaction affordances
  9. Manage complexity
  10. Organize charts symmetrically
  11. Group charts by attribute
  12. Order charts by time
  13. Balance data
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