What is a Dashboard?

What is a Dashboard?

Data is necessary, but also confusing. The best way to represent data is through visuals and graphs, the dashboard helps you exactly do that. Dashboards are a combination of visuals and graphs placed together to understand some analytics and visualize key data. A Dashboard conveys different but related information in an easy-to-understand manner, the key is to simplify data and present it in the form of charts, graphs, and visuals....

How to Design a Professional Dashboard?

You can follow this 5 step process to design fascinating icons, here I am using a very popular prototyping tool called Figma....

Best Practices

Principle of Hierarchy: the goals for every dashboard are going to be different but one of the things which stands out is that there is a lot of information hence it’s really important to create a hierarchy within all the information and all the content. Use design Hierarchy to highlight the most important elements of the dashboard, this will also reduce the cognitive load from the user. Originality: Originality is an important aspect when it comes to designing dashboard. Avoid coping the generic elements used in Dashboard and come up with an original design also keeping in mind that those elements are easy to understand for the user and visual represents the data. Versatile: The elements of your dashboard must be versatile, by this we mean that it should be able to work with different backgrounds. This helps when you may be changing themes of your application or your website. For creating a versatile icon, you can simply design your icon or set of Icons and test them with in different backgrounds and iterate of the basis of the results. Visual Balance: The Elements of Dashboard we design must be is visual balance. By this we mean that the elements of Dashboard we design should follow a visual language and follow the color theory. For this make sure that the colors and the contrast being used should match and complement one another. User feedback and iterating: The first iteration of your Dashboard may not be perfect but taking feedback from the users can provide valuable insights about the design and what things should be improved. In order to continuously improve the Dashboard design we have to that user feedback and iterate our design....

Conclusion

Data is necessary, but also confusing. The best way to represent data is through visuals and graphs, dashboard helps you exactly do that. Dashboards are a combination of visuals and graphs placed together to understand some analytics and visualize key data. Dashboards are an essential part of any web design and designing Dashboards is an essential skillset for a UI/UX designer. Make sure to follow the steps and the best practices we discussed in this article when designing your next Dashboard....