Visual Highlighting: Information Visualization
While its best practice to display the most important information in the top left corner within a dashboard and provide […]
Experiencing color
The ability to experience color can help us in a variety of ways. Colours convey meaning, connect, communicate functions, and […]
Gestalt principles to use in dashboard design
Kurt Koffka, Max Wertheimer, and Wolfgang Kohler identified and described a number of perceptual biases. These biases help us identify […]
Design features that make or break a dashboard design
Certain design features should be avoided to improve the meaningfulness of a dashboards. Here are some of the good and […]
Advantages of dashboards
Designers use dashboards to represent raw data in a visual form that is helpful and supports immediate recognition and extraction […]
Using schemata to improve usability
Schemata are existing knowledge that users develop. These are developed through established norms that designers create. Users learn these schemata […]
How to select effective display media
There are several key considerations to make when identifyign the most effective and appropriate display for use in a dashboard. […]
Five examples of non-data pixels in dashboard design
The data-ink ratio is a term and design principle coined by Edward Tufte. Tufte refers to the amount of ink […]
Limitations of short-term memory
Human cognition has its limitations encompassing attention memory learning reasoning producing and understanding language problem-solving decision-making
How dashboard design can support an aha experience
How can dashboard design support comparative analysis and promote an ‘aha’ experience associated with gaining insights? Design for a sudden […]