Information design

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Dashboards

Lesson 11 of 12 in Information design.

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A dashboard is meant to be read at a glance and almost none of them can be, because every stakeholder who saw a draft asked for one more number and nobody was ever given the job of removing any.

An ink drawing of an office wall screen with one large tile holding a big block and a line across a pale band, four small tiles beside it, and a woman glancing up as she passes.
A dashboard that makes one headline measure unmissable.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Several measures in one view, meant to be read at a glance.”

    • Categorical palette
    • Provenance
    • Dashboard
    • Labelling
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Understandable in a few seconds. The property most dashboards do not have.”

    • Comparison
    • Zebra striping
    • Glanceable
    • Aspect ratio
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Every request adding a tile, until nothing is prominent.”

    • Trend
    • Grid lines
    • Categorical palette
    • Metric creep

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