ChecklistCraft conventionIntermediate
Dashboard UX Checklist
Whether a dashboard answers a question or just displays numbers.
Definition
A review pass for dashboards and monitoring interfaces, covering purpose, hierarchy, chart choice, states and density.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
Work through it
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Purpose and hierarchy
0/5Charts and data
0/6States and density
0/4Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Applies when you are designing
Practical example
A worked decision where this was the deciding factor.
What this checks
The guidance behind the items in this list.
- ChartComponent
- Visibility of System StatusHeuristic
- Doherty ThresholdLaw
- DashboardsPattern
- Loading StatesPattern
- Data Visualization ColorUI foundation
- DensityUI foundation
- Visual HierarchyUI foundation