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This whitepaper to discover how thoughtful planning will allow you to become familiar with your dashboard audience, evaluate proper display size, and appropriately plan for fast load times. Refining your dashboard puts the onus on tooltips, emphasizes the story within your story, eliminates clutter, and sets you up for dashboard testing opportunities.
Table of contents
Thoughtful Planning
1. Know your audience
2. Consider display size
3. Plan for fast load times
Informed Design
4. Leverage the sweet spot
5. Limit the number of views & colors
6. Add interactivity to encourage exploration
7. Format from largest to smallest
Refining Your Dashboard
8. Leverage tooltips, the story within your story
9. Eliminate clutter
10. Test your dashboard
Refining Your Dashboard
1. Trying to answer too many questions with a single dashboard
2. Using metrics no one understands
3. Cluttering the dashboard with low-value graphics and widgets
4. Not viewing your dashboard as your users will
5. Forgetting to check in with your audience
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