Subject
4 entries
Dashboards
Bookmarks
Causal: The Business Planning Platform
Causal replaces financial spreadsheets with a formula-based modeling tool that connects to accounting/CRM data and generates shareable dashboards. The pitch is better than Excel for planning — traceable assumptions, cleaner formulas, built-in scenarios.
How to Design Useful Monitoring Graphs and Visualizations
A guide to designing useful monitoring graphs and dashboards — distinguishing signal from noise, choosing the right chart type, and setting alert thresholds. The operational side of data visualization that analysis-focused tutorials skip.
User Experience Trends for Admin Dashboards
Speckyboy's roundup of UX trends for admin dashboards in 2013 — covering the shift to data-dense responsive designs, flat UI aesthetics replacing skeuomorphism, and the emerging design language for metrics and analytics interfaces.
All Dashboards Should be Feeds
Anil Dash's 2013 argument that dashboards should be replaced by feeds — because feeds are scannable, show change over time, and can be subscribed to, while dashboards require active navigation and miss temporal context. A prescient critique of how enterprise analytics was being designed.