A dashboard often displays information on present and previous activity and achievements.
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What are techniques for showing a future state on an empty dashboard?
I am working on a new web application that will have a user dashboard displaying lots of great information with charts, notifications, alerts, etc. The actual data populating the charts will not be ...
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Reference books for data visualisation and dashboard design [closed]
Please could you recommend some reference texts or other resources concerned with business data visualisation and dashboard design.
There's Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few on Amazon but ...
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How do you decide whether additional information is harmful?
In any primary user interface screen, a designer must find a balance between too little and too much information.
Often, adding additional status information is cheap, technically. Therefore, some ...
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How to make a boring (but very functional) dashboard more interesting and appealing without cluttering it unnessesarily?
I have a simple dashboard for project managers. It's intended to give very basic information, and to give them a "launching point" to get to all the most important things they need to take action on. ...
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What is the best way to create an eye-catching display of numeric values in a web page?
I am going to design a management level monitoring page for displaying some sums and counts. No interaction is allowed and it will be used as a monitoring page on a big LCD in the managers view. The ...
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Recommended Icon for Dashboard [closed]
Can you recommend me about the icon for the dashboard, I have been looking at http://findicons.com/search/dashboard but get the icons like in the picture below.
I feel it's more like clock instead ...
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Displaying information in a dashboard: Advice or references
I have to design a dashboard for managers who need to report to their managers on their areas of responsibility. In the past I have just put counts and line charts over time of what they are ...
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Testing dashboard prototypes
I will be testing various dashboard ideas on the hospital floor. We are testing for content to see if the info is valuable in real-time. Are there interesting tools / methods that would allow me to ...
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Web Based Portal Dashboard - the age old button vs link
I'm very aware and in agreement with the buttons for actions and links for navigation practice but I have come stuck on this design.
It is an internal company portal, and this is the dashboard for ...
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How to determine how many widgets is too many widgets?
Following on from my last question, we're working on a UX design for an application. Once logged in, the user is confronted with a dashboard, something in a similar vein to this; just more complex and ...
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CMS interfaces: forms based vs click and change?
In regard to CMS interfaces I would say we could split them in 2 main branches [*1]:
the ones with a control panel, where you go and usually see a list of pages (blog articles/ecommerce products), ...
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Drop-down Filter - Submit button vs OnChange
I have a dashboard that displays different table data based on a drop-down SELECT field. While I realize it's more efficient for calling the data from the database by having the user have to click a ...
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User navigation icons or text based
I am working on a web based hosted CRM personal project which I will release to public ones it is done. My goal is to create a CRM with absolutely zero to none learning or training requirement. To do ...
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Dashboard resources
We are developing a dashboard for a web application and I wondered if there was a web resource of any do's and don't of dashboard design? I know there are some good books on this subject (which I have ...
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User Profile Dashboard Design
I am trying to create a user profile dashboard for an application I am building using CakePHP.
However, I am struggling to wrap my brain around a good layout/design for it. Basically, I am looking to ...
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3answers
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Can customisable dashboards in web-apps enhance user experience?
I'm currently in the process of redesigning the dashboard for one of our products. One of the requests I've received so far is that it should be customisable. Instinctively, I oppose the idea as I ...
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How to present a view with large number of inputs
I'm developing a dashboard for hotel managament system application.
There's a view that allows the user to set prices for room types in different currencies. Sadly, I can't provide any screenshots as ...
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How to deal with records that require no action?
On a transaction administration page, users can view what they are buying and what they are selling. The main tabs shows both records, each one with a distinguish tag that seperate buying/selling as ...
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Is scrolling acceptable in dashboard design?
I am designing a Business dashboard (Financial Product). All info is reachable in a single scroll and primary insights are visible without scroll.
As some information below the fold the customer ...
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2answers
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tab menu + side panel - how to organize menu and “context menu”
I have a dashboard, with tab menu (tabs over the content) and a side panel with a vertical menu.
My question is. i would like to make one menu (tab or side panel) as first level menu and the other ...
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2answers
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Alternatives to pie charts in a table
We've got an application where we want to show parts-of-a-whole data in a table with multiple rows. The current table design has a small number of rows (4-8). Each contains text and numbers plus a pie ...
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How to best represent scheduling information for a manufacturing dashboard
I'm working on the design of a manufacturing dashboard to track the status of various "jobs" as they make their way through various manufacturing processes. I'm trying to develop a creative way of ...
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Landing page vs Home page
We are currently having a "discussion" in our company about Home pages. We have some users who express the opinion that "The home page should always be the home page, and never change". Thus, when a ...
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Dashboard vs tabs on mobile UIs
Are there any particular guidelines about when to use tabs on a mobile interface as against yelp style category buttons(Dashboard) on the landing screen?
Yelp style category buttons(Dashboard): ...
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Is it a good idea to allow drag and drop items to be dragged from a slide-in menu?
We're developing a dashboard, and now we have a fullscreen dashboard that includes a sliding menu (which is invisible from start) with chart types to drag and drop onto the dashboard.
When user ...
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How to user test a redesign?
In some website projects, you are testing whether users can complete specific functionality. For example, with a shopping cart I can measure the percentage of users that complete checkout, the amount ...
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3-state control on/off/suspended
I’m creating a prototype for a system which will give the user to control a specific feature in the system by switching it on and off. To control the feature we have a 3-state control:
on
off
...
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What is a good way to position chart elements on a dashboard?
I'm designing some dashboards for a client who will see sliced and diced versions of data based on a lot of parameters.
I plan to give him a Pie Chart, Bar Graph and a Table on the same dashboard.
...
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Wireframing hardware dashboards/control panels - best practice
For an upcoming customer project, I will be dealing with control center UI, including visualization on-screen software, but also hardware control panels and dashboards.
The project emphasizes on ...
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Mouse over gesture in touch interface [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some alternatives to “hover” on touch-based devices?
I'm looking for a touch gesture/ other solution that would replace a mouse over indication ( like we see ...
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Solve multiple scroll bar on one page
I'm designing a dashboard where each box on the board contains a data table. They have fixed height so not all records can be displayed. I used the scroll bar for each box so that users can see more ...
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Best wording for “edit X” button?
What is the best wording for an "edit section" button and why? The pages I am linking to will be for adding and editing existing items. For example it could contain one of:
Manage Pages
Add/Edit ...
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Best practices for designing a finance dashboard
I'm creating a finance dashboard that allows the user to drilldown further into various kinds of metrics. Does anyone know of any best practices for designing something like this?
I'm also looking ...
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Should I use a Dashboard for a mobile website
Should I use a Dashboard, in the style of an app, for the mobile version of a website? Is it considered a good or bad practice?
There is some images associated with the news feed on the home pages of ...
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Headlight and Indicators on the handlebar OR on the front panel of the Scooter that you drive?
There are 3 designs existing now:
Headlight and indicator lights both on the handle.
Headlight on the handle but indicator lights on the front panel.
Headlight and indicator lights both on the front ...
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1answer
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Reference for customized dashboard [closed]
I need to design a dashboard for customers of commercial company. The dashboard should mainly present the customer's products, recent transactions, provide the option to pay his/her monthly bill and ...
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1answer
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Designing simple attendance dashboard
I am in the process of designing a simple dashboard to get the employees attendance IN Time. I am firing a simple query to get their in time. However, I would like to represent the timing in an ...
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1answer
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Dashboard and its overall simplicity [closed]
I would like some feedback and suggestions on overall look and feel of this dashboard mock-up for a file-sharing site. I do personally think that there is an over use of gray.
The project is for a ...
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1answer
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In a single page multiple graph dashboard, should the filtering controls affect all graphics or specific graphics? [closed]
In summarized report dashboard with the multiple graph representing, company performance snapshot, should the filtering controls affect all graphics or specific graphics?
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Dashboard designing [closed]
Can any one suggest good design for dashboard? I have already added news,events,aanouncements,holidays,birthdays of employees,joke and thought. But I need more elements.
