Business Dashboard Design (PowerPoint PPTX Slide Deck)

DASHBOARD DESIGN PPT DESCRIPTION

Elevate your data visualization with this PPT by ex-McKinsey & Big 4 consultants. Discover 10 principles for effective business dashboard design. Business Dashboard Design is a 29-slide PPT PowerPoint presentation slide deck (PPTX) available for immediate download upon purchase.

Explore Slides inside the Deck:

Understanding Audience Needs for Effective Dashboard Design Essential Principles for Effective Business Dashboard Design Designing Dashboards with User Device Considerations

Business dashboards are important tools to measure key performance indicators and data pertaining to an organization or certain procedure. Just as a vehicle dashboard summarizes the impact of overall performance of a multitude of processes, a business dashboard summarizes the performance or impact of a host of functions, teams, and activities.

This presentation provides a detailed overview of the 10 guiding principles and best practices to build effective business dashboards. The guiding principles are:

1. Analyze the audience
2. Contemplate display options
3. Prompt application loading time
4. Exploit eye-scanning patterns
5. Restrict number of views & colors
6. Let viewers filter data
7. Ensure proper formatting
8. Utilize tooltips to reinforce story
9. Eliminate redundancy
10. Review the dashboard carefully

The presentation then lists some of the most common business dashboard design mistakes. A well-designed dashboard is a great information management tool.

The slide deck also includes some slide templates for you to use in your own business presentations.

This PPT is a must-have for professionals aiming to elevate their data visualization capabilities. It delves into the nuances of dashboard design, providing actionable insights and practical tips to avoid common pitfalls. The presentation is structured to guide you through each principle with clarity, ensuring you can implement these best practices effectively.

The slide deck also emphasizes the importance of understanding your audience and tailoring the dashboard to meet their specific needs. It includes templates that can be customized to fit your organizational context, making it a versatile tool for various business scenarios. This resource is designed to help you create dashboards that are not only visually appealing, but also highly functional and user-friendly.

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DASHBOARD DESIGN PPT SLIDES

Understanding Audience Needs for Effective Dashboard Design

This PPT slide focuses on designing effective business dashboards by understanding the audience. A thorough analysis of users, such as busy salespeople and management, is essential. Salespeople need quick access to key indicators, while management requires detailed insights into quarterly sales performance. Recognizing the audience's technical capabilities, including their familiarity with data analysis, allows for a design that aligns with their skills. Additionally, determining useful labels and cues ensures the information is easily interpretable and actionable. The slide cautions against overcrowding a single dashboard with too many questions, recommending multiple dashboards for different themes to enhance clarity and effectiveness.

Essential Principles for Effective Business Dashboard Design

This PPT slide outlines ten guiding principles for developing effective business dashboards, categorized into 3 phases: Planning, Design, and Refinement. In the Planning phase, principles focus on understanding the audience, display options, and application loading times to enhance user experience. The Design phase emphasizes visual presentation and interactivity, utilizing eye-scanning patterns for navigation, limiting views and colors to avoid information overload, and allowing data filtering for personalization. Proper formatting is crucial for clarity and readability. The Refinement phase highlights continuous improvement through tooltips for narrative reinforcement, eliminating redundancy, and regular dashboard reviews to maintain relevance. These principles provide a structured approach to dashboard design, enhancing decision-making and organizational performance.

Designing Dashboards with User Device Considerations

This PPT slide outlines the second principle for designing a business dashboard, focusing on user device preferences and display options. Researching user viewing preferences is essential, as neglecting mobile display can lead to ineffective designs. Key guidelines include setting appropriate dashboard sizes for desktops, tablets, and smartphones, with automatic sizing for seamless adaptation to browser dimensions. The concept of “Range sizing” is introduced, allowing designers to create predictable break points for functionality and visual appeal across screens. A Device Designer tool is recommended for tailored layouts on specific devices, enhancing user experience. Comprehensive help features related to dashboard layouts are also encouraged to assist users in navigation, ensuring a user-centric design that meets diverse viewing needs.

Common Pitfalls in Business Dashboard Design

This PPT slide outlines common pitfalls in business dashboard design, highlighting 5 specific errors. First, relying on a single dashboard for multiple questions leads to confusion; dashboards should be tailored to specific needs. Second, confusing metrics can mislead users, making actionable insights difficult; clarity in metrics is essential for effective decision-making. Third, cluttering dashboards with excessive graphics overwhelms users and obscures critical information; a streamlined design prioritizing essential data is necessary. Fourth, neglecting the user's perspective can disconnect the dashboard's design from its audience; understanding user needs is vital. Lastly, failing to gather user feedback hinders effectiveness; continuous improvement based on input ensures relevance. Avoiding these mistakes enhances dashboard utility in decision-making processes.

Enhancing Dashboard Interactivity through User Filters

This PPT slide outlines key principles for designing effective business dashboards, emphasizing user data filtering and interactivity. Users should be able to prioritize relevant data views, which serve as filters for other dashboard elements, enhancing data analysis and engagement. The ability to arrange specific views side-by-side facilitates comparative analysis, crucial for drawing insights from multiple data points. Filters such as check boxes, radio, buttons, and drop-down lists boost user interaction. A "Highlighting" feature allows users to emphasize related data in secondary views based on primary selections, enhancing analytical depth. Clear guidance through well-designed filter options, including search boxes and intuitive titles, significantly improves user experience, promoting effective navigation and decision-making.

Enhancing Dashboard Narratives with Effective Tooltips

Tooltips enhance business dashboard effectiveness by providing critical insights. Designers should conduct thorough reviews of tooltips to ensure quality and relevance. Customization is essential, as generic tooltips may fail to convey specific insights. Tooltips should reinforce the dashboard narrative, presenting data in a coherent story that aligns with overall objectives. Key information must be placed at the top of tooltips, following best practices for dashboard layout. Validating tooltip wording is crucial to ensure clarity and accuracy, as unclear language can undermine effectiveness. Thoughtful design and communication in tooltips significantly enhance user experience and engagement.

Source: Best Practices in Performance Management, Key Performance Indicators PowerPoint Slides: Business Dashboard Design PowerPoint (PPTX) Presentation Slide Deck, LearnPPT Consulting