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1.3 Creating Designs

The document outlines best practices for creating effective designs and dashboards, emphasizing the importance of clarity and precision in visualizations. It warns against the use of 3D effects in graphs and pie charts, as they can mislead viewers. Additionally, it defines a dashboard as a single-screen display that should convey information at a glance, distinguishing between interactive and visual dashboards.

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1.3 Creating Designs

The document outlines best practices for creating effective designs and dashboards, emphasizing the importance of clarity and precision in visualizations. It warns against the use of 3D effects in graphs and pie charts, as they can mislead viewers. Additionally, it defines a dashboard as a single-screen display that should convey information at a glance, distinguishing between interactive and visual dashboards.

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3 Creating Designs
Wednesday, 05 October 2022 12:34

• Creating designs - best practices


Summary • Graphs - best practices
• Dashboard

• When you visualize you have to be both accurate and precise.

• In the given graphs, which


design is easier to
understand?

• L: 30-34 and 34-39 bars, it's difficult to tell whether there's a difference between those two
when you use 3D effects because of the shadow.

• Also, What purpose does this 3D representation serve?


- None.

• In some cases, 3D effects can be counter-productive.

• What are the best practices


for creating designs?

• Compare these two charts on


malpractices and best
practices in creating
designs.

• Consider the slices of Our company, 34 and Competitor A, 26:


L: Both these slices look same. It essentially says our company and competitor A has same
market share.
R: You can see the difference between both of these slices.

• Moreover, if we rotate this pie chart so that Competitor C is at front, it can appear to be same
size as our company's.

• 3D effects can be deceitful, more so in pie charts.

• With the help of given


graphs, comment on best
practices for graphs to get
uncluttered look.
• Compare the titles of both charts. The message is very clear in R.
In L, we have to calculate.

• L: We need to trace the horizontal axis to see what value a dot represents. And, then to
compare sales of let's say July, we'll first trace both dots and then calculate the difference.

• Opt for value labels wherever possible and you can delete labels to avoid clutter, as is done in
R. Also, since we have annotated in R, no need of grid lines.

• What is a dashboard?

• A dashboard is a collection of related displays with some purpose.

• It has to be on a single screen. You do not want to be scrolling up and down. You look at
it and in one glance you should know what's happening.

• When designing a dashboard, know what the purpose is for that dashboard. And know what
you need to put there to help the user of the dashboard achieve that purpose.
If the purpose of the dashboard is to look at one metric only. Then show only that, nothing
else.

• Difference between • Why a visual display?


interactive and visual There's a difference between interactive dashboards and visual dashboards.
dashboards In interactive dashboards, to see info on something, you need to click on something.
A dashboard is supposed to be visual. You don't necessarily have to make it interactive.

• The word dashboard was borrowed from a car automobile dashboard. Whenever you design a
dashboard, you think of a car dashboard.
Can you imagine if you're driving a car, and the dashboard requires you to reach in and push a
button to look at the fuel consumption, push another button to look at the speed, and the
speed display tells you that you're 32% over the average speed limit, is that all relevant?
You only need to know how fast you're driving, and that's it. In one glance, from the corner of
your eye, you should get the information. And, it's all there in one screen.

• Can a dashboard be real- • Real-time dashboard: A real-time cannot be a dashboard. A dashboard is meant where in one
time? glance you get the information and then you go do what you have to do. A real time is
something that you are monitoring.

If there's a reason to monitor something in real time, it should not be a dashboard. It should
be an entity in itself.

• Tabular displays on • The whole idea of dashboards is so that you can put multiple metrics on display at the same
dashboard time. If you put tabular display where you have to scroll, then by definition, they are not on the
same page.

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