A dashboard is a single screen showing the status of an application. At a glance you should see what’s going well and what areas are struggling. Customer retention is down. Sales are up. Complaints are at an all time high.<\/p>\n
They’re the application equivalent of homepages, and present many of the same political challenges. Every department wants their pixels. I’ve designed many such dashboards, enough to prepare a talk summarising my findings. This talk was presented at UX Midwest 2011<\/a>, MIX 2011<\/a>, and a few other events. Here is my slidedeck, it’s a big one.<\/p>\n