Dashboard User Interfaces Flashcards

Flashcards on Dashboard User Interfaces based on lecture notes.

Dashboard

A visual display of essential information needed to achieve specific business objectives, consolidating data from various sources into a single interface.

Purpose of Dashboards

Primarily used for tracking and analyzing KPIs, identifying trends, and making informed decisions based on real-time data.

Operational Dashboards

Dashboards that focus on processes and track short-term goals with rapidly changing metrics, emphasizing actionable data.

Tactical Dashboards

Dashboards that focus on day-to-day KPIs, primarily for data collation and visualization, enabling senior management to track employee performance.

Strategic Dashboards

Dashboards that look at long-term goals and how they are being achieved with respect to large volumes of metrics over long periods of time, used more as a benchmark than a KPI.

Analytical Dashboards

Dashboards created by or for analysts, designed to allow viewing of high-quality data for making inferences and observations.

Motive of Dashboard

Like any other view in your product, the dashboard has a specific purpose.Getting this rendering wrong makes your effort meaningless.

Scatter Charts

Used for correlation and distribution analysis.

Bubble Chart

Introduce the third dimension into the chart.

Network Diagram

Handy when even the most minor connection between data points are very important.

Distribution charts

Illustrate outliers, the normal tendency, and the range of information in your values.

Grids

Help you to achieve effective alignment and consistency with little effort and create a basic structure or a skeleton for your design.

Cards

Content containers that easily scale up or down.Having consistent structure makes it easy for users to work with the interface.

Personalization

Is done by the system itself. The system should be set to identify users and deliver to them the content, experience, or functionality that matches their role.

Customization

Is done by the user and is often an excuse to avoid a tedious process of truly finding out what each user role truly needs to see