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Evolution of a dashboard design
- alabut 16y agoThis looks like great info to have and we've been building out similar tools for both internal use and some tailored ones for our customers, but I won't know until later because the site's leading is so awful as to be unreadable and I had to throw it in instapaper instead to read later. You could drive a truck through the space in between the lines. So many sites mess this up and I don't know where the trend of insanely high line-height values are coming from, since I'm guessing it's usually not part of the default template styles. It's really simple - keep the line-height down to about 120-140%. And the shorter the line length - like with this article - the less distance you need because the eye is wrapping back around from the right edge at quicker intervals, so it doesn't lose it's place on the left.
- gordonguthrie 16y agoWe're developing simple technology that will allow non-technical users to start building shared dashboards in a native web spreadsheet. We would love to speak to anyone with a strong interest in this area - just give me a bell.
- swombat 16y agoVery nice post, and the dashboards look great, but one thing seems to be missing: the actionable metrics. Metrics for metrics' sake can be dangerous and not necessarily all that helpful. You shouldn't guess why the conversion rate went up, you should know because you a/b tested it... More detail about this argument here: http://swombat.com/2011/1/13/dashboard-evolution-vanity-metrics http://swombat.com/2011/1/13/dashboard-evolution-vanity-metr...