Designing Usable and Effective Business Dashboards
What you'll learn
- You will be able to add "Dashboard Design Expert" in your profile.
- You will be able to execute "dashboard design" projects from scratch to delivery.
- You will be able to articulate and "ask right questions" to your clients / stakeholders strenthening their confidence in your expertise.
- You will be able to prove that "you are capable" of driving design projects in right direction.
- Identify type of dashboard needed for your clients requirement.
- Apply UX methodology step by step in a real world business situation from user research to dashboard delivery.
- Secret to Dashboard Success: Convert raw data into actionable insights.
- Basics of User Centered Design (UCD) and difference between UX and UCD.
- Real life design exercise as a warm-up session. You can send your designs for feedback & comments.
- Creating Design Strategy which will provide design directions for dashboard.
- How to take User Interviews and eliciting insights from it.
- How to create user persona from user research.
- Working with wireframing and interactive prototyping software "Axure RP". (It is used by more than 25,000 organizations around the world including 87 of the Fortune 100)
- Designing quick concept sketches for ideation.
- Designing high - fidelity interactive business dashboard prototypes in Axure.
- Understanding information visualization and its impact on dashboard design.
- Improving dashboard presentation by working on Layout, Color, Font and Icons.
- Test dashboards with your users (Usability Testing) to check if it really works!
- Bundling your design deliverables and presenting it to your client.
- Impress your client by showing systematic translation of user research into intuitive dashboards.
- 45 well-structured lectures with step by step content.
- Free downloadable templates on Design Strategy, User Persona, Visualization Selection, Dashboard Layouts etc.
- Dashboard Presentation PRO Tips.
- Detailed "User Interview Protocol" to help you kick start user interviews.
- Last but not the least, full time proactive support from myside to ensure that you get value for money :-)
Requirements
- Axure RP (30 days free trial version available)
- No previous design experience needed but willingness to learn is a must.
Description
Can you improve something without measuring it? No. Right?
This is why we need business dashboards to measure and improve business performance, producing real business ROI.
For most of the people, more often than not, aesthetic beauty takes the front seat and becomes the only parameter to justify better designs. Thanks to Steve Jobs who shattered this myth by quoting - "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works!"
Business dashboards are not foreign to this concept. We have many sophisticated tools which let us create business dashboards in minutes, but rarely we think about it's usefulness in business context. We forget that developer who is building the dashboard is not the person who is actually going to consume it. We neglect User Centered Design process while designing business dashboards.
And the result? We end up designing "Instinct Based Subjective Design" which hardly provides any value. This course takes you on a journey of creating "Research Based User Centric Objective Design" which provides true ROI to your client.
This course will teach you everything you need to know about user research, design strategy, design conceptualization, wire framing, prototyping and testing it with your end users to make sure it really works! You will learn all this from scratch so it doesn't matter how much experience you have when you take up this course.
In this 64 well-structured video lecture series, we will start with understanding a real life business challenge. I will give you an opportunity to perform a design exercise and I can provide you the feedback on the same. This will help you understand what I mean by "Instinct based subjective design". Then we will proceed on with learning how to take user interviews effectively and how to elicit design key pointers from it. We will create a systematic design strategy to achieve our business goal. We will create user persona to better understand our user and feed all these research insights practically onto paper to create concept sketches for dashboard. We will refine concept sketch step by step focusing on visualizations, layout, font, color, icons etc. until we reach our close to perfect dashboard. (Because in reality, there is nothing like perfect design :-)
Hey, we are not going to stop yet! We will test our dashboard with real users to understand if it really works! And in last, we are to show you how to bundle your deliverables and help your team members consume all this stuff along the way.
This course will help you in converting raw business data into actionable insights.
This course will help you in analyzing and communicating business information effectively for quality decision making.
So what are you waiting for? Join me in this exciting and rewarding journey of effective business dashboard design!
Who this course is for:
- New or established business owners who want to track various aspects of their business performance.
- UX designers who want to enhance their scope of expertise.
- Developers who work with Tableau, Power BI, or any other analytics platform and would want to bring User Centered Design aspect in their work.
- Business Analysts who want to know how User Centered Design method can help them create usable business dashboards.
- Students / beginners who want to learn UX, its process, and want to implement research into design practically in real life business situation.
- Freelancers who are dealing with “dashboard” projects and aim to bring more ROI for their client.
Instructor
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- 67 Students
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I started my journey as a software developer fresh out of my college campus and worked with leading Indian industrial and consumer products group in telecom and
finance domain. But life totally changed when I got a little exposure to design.
Soon I realized, design has the potential to make or break a business! The entrepreneur within me was ready to take the plunge and I started my journey of bringing positive
ROI to businesses through my designs. Today, I am a Certified Usability Analyst (CUA) and Certified User Experience Analyst (CXA) from Human Factors International (HFI)
having 5+ years of intensive experience in UX design and implementation. I have rich experience in designing Operational and Analytical Dashboard solutions along with
designing for multiple devices & channels like desktop, tablet , mobile phone and high resolution displays. Understanding stakeholder vision, doing user research, working closely with product teams and manifesting all these into an intuitive design is my forte.
When I was learning dashboard designing, I searched a lot everywhere for relevant case studies and real life examples for applying UX theories and concepts.
Though I got tons of material on theoretical design concepts, I hardly got any real world case studies to rely upon. I strongly believe design can't be taught just in theory and it has to be given a real world context for better understanding and application.
Based on my own experience, this is an attempt to create an interesting and engaging design course based on real business with real challenges showcasing real design impact.
Not only that, my whole effort is to provide excellent support in terms of answering questions, updating contents on the need basis, proactively connecting with participants often and making sure that participants do get their value for money.
Join me in this exciting and rewarding journey of effective dashboard designing!