Here are some tips we collected over the years about dashboard design:
Page Layout
- Less is more – don’t put too many views in the page.
- Rule of thumb – no more than five reports in one page.
- Don’t use scrolling – the average user won’t scroll down the screen.
- Position in screen – some researches made about this subject and here are the recommendations:
- Top-Left – it’s the part of the screen that the user looks at first. Put there the most important data.
- Center of the screen – the part the user looks after the top-left. Put there the second-most important data.
- Top-Right, Bottom-Left – Neutral parts.
- Bottom-Right – The user won’t pay attention to it, don’t put there important data.
- Fixed menus in every page.
- Small amount of navigation targets in every page. Too much navigation paths will cause confusion.
- Concentrate on the main page – in 90% of the cases the user will stay there.
- Add graphic components and highlight them if necessary.
- Blue color only to links (and underline, of course).
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New Version Boasts Greater Flexibility, More Flash UI, More Robust Features; New Collaboration Options Also Available
TORONTO, ON – (April 1st, 2009) - Panorama Software, a global leader in Proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, today previewed the first fully supported release candidate of NovaView Version 6.0, scheduled for final release this June.
A tightly integrated suite of web-enabled BI applications, NovaView 6.0 offers a new user interface, new deployment wizards, a more robust platform and new applications. NovaView 6.0 maintains the long-standing tradition of being a tightly integrated suite that combines the best of query and analysis, formatted reporting, performance dashboards, KPI scorecards, modeling, advanced visualization and automated report distribution.
The special addition to the 6.0 version is the inclusion of the highly popular Flash Analytical user client application that was first introduced with Google Apps and now made available inside the NovaView suite on-premise. The Flash Analytics product is among the most popular analytical tools available today.
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We are happy to announce the next workshop in our Panorama School of SQL Server OLAP BI!
Introduction to Business Intelligence Development
This 4 part series will cover a variety of a variety of SQL Server related topics. We will start of by discussing dimensional data modeling. We will then focus on how to use SQL Server Integration Services to implement and manage an ETL process. We will finish the series with a look at how we can use the Data Mining tools that ship with SQL Server to solve business problems.
Sessions:
- Introduction to Dimensional Data Modeling
- SQL Server Integration Services Part 1
- SQL Server Integration Services Part 2
- Introduction to Data Mining
Read more or register: www.panorama.com/bi-school/business-intelligence-development/
