The Dashboard has more translations, such as a report board, a control panel, and the one that best reflects the essence of the Dashboard.
Under the dashboard, one place is usually placed on the company’s intranet, where it’s possible to see different business data that real-time show business results.
The most common is about data and information from operating systems, so that the management has an insight into the current situation most often compared to historical data in order to make adequate business decisions.
When creating a report / control, i.e. Dashboards appear system errors in access especially when you are a beginner.
Mistake 1. One page for everyone!
Basically, each company has organizational parts that achieve business results in its synergy. Each organizational unit is planning its business goals, e.g. sales, marketing, production, human resources, finance, etc., and at least each has to measure the achievement of these objectives. If everything were in one place, then it would definitely be overwhelming and difficult to get to know.
Mistake 2. No comparison of data!
Do you have an absolute number, for example, total sales revenue, anything that means? But if it is 0.2% compared to today, the previous month, etc. then the information becomes information.
Mistake 3. Bad position information on the screen!
The most important information must be first displayed, on the top left of the screen, in order to demonstrate priorities.
Mistake 4. Use of mis graphic displays!
Do not avoid combining line diagrams with a stubble view so that the line, for example, represents the data from the previous business year, and the columns from this business year.
Favorite cakes with too much data should certainly be avoided, at most 5 data is enough.
Mistake 5. Abuse of color!
Colors in addition to the basic design are used to indicate the priority in the data, very often the controls are removed. Red for bad results, blue for today’s data, pink for last measurement, green for good result, etc. very quickly the screen overflows the color.
Mistake 6. Tricking the user into thinking!
Do not expect the control panel user to have a pre-knowledge, or to know what to do, in which case, specify it with some footnote, tool or brief information.
It’s even worse if you expect to have something to be calculated later. Under subsequent calculation does not imply exporting data to Excel, PDF or any other format.