Dashboard Spy | Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience | Great resources that are proving very helpful for a project I’ve been heavily involved in the last week – the design for an information dashboard for one of my clients. It’s proving an interesting challenge given the audience it is intended for. Instead of the traditional corporate environment, we’re trying to present user data within a certain niche social activity (forgive the the obscurity but I’m under an NDA).
The people using the system will be from diverse backgrounds and initially may have only a passing familiarity with what they are looking at. The dashboard therefore has not only present data in an easily interpreted manner but also clearly indicate what is presented. We can’t make too many presumptions on the users degree of familiarity with the terms, statistics etc being employed.
The best way to figure out how an intended audience may react to a certain presentation of information is to find examples of a similar nature and test, test, test! You need to show the audience a sample and see if they “get it”. Of course, the traditional problem is how to find relevant samples. That’s where the collection of dashboards at http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/sitemap/ comes in.
Thanks for the mention! Hope you find lots of example dashboards for your secret project.