
Explore five dashboard challenges: insufficient user research, lack of contextual data, wrong data visualization, lack of visual presentation, and lack of actionable insights; emphasize user profiles.
Discover who can benefit from this course—from new or established business owners and designers to developers, analysts, students, and freelancers—by applying user centered design to usable dashboards.
Explore the three dashboard types—strategy, analytical, and operational—and how each serves different users, goals, timeframes, and interactions for informed decisions.
Apply user-centered design principles and processes to create delightful, usable business dashboards and applications, as this introduction covers the fundamentals and background of user-focused design.
Learn how user centered design (UCD) aligns with ISO frameworks to emphasize understanding users, tasks, environments, involve users throughout, iterative refinement, multidisciplinary perspectives, holistic experiences across digital and offline contexts.
Implementing a user-centered design framework in business dashboards centers users throughout development, boosting adoption, reducing training costs, and delivering actionable insights that drive timely decisions and revenue.
Create a crisp dashboard design strategy with a focused objective, key user questions, constraints, assumptions, and five critical success factors, guided by stakeholder research and a ready-to-fill PowerPoint template.
Present a case study on designing a finance dashboard for a CFO, detailing an initial objective dashboard and an iterative refinement of user questions, constraints, and assumptions through ongoing research.
Execute a planned approach to achieve our goals by conducting in-depth user research in the upcoming section, and invite questions through the dashboard.
Explore user research methods that drive user-centered design, including qualitative methods (usability labs, ethnographic studies, interviews, diary studies, eye tracking) and quantitative methods (panel studies, benchmarking).
Revisits the sales dashboard design strategy, outlining four areas—financial stability, sales, client, and daily business snapshot—and refines the objective to track finances, optimize opportunities, and control daily operations.
Explore Axure RP for high fidelity prototypes, including dynamic content, conditional flows, and data-driven interactions. Learn to navigate its interface, use pages, libraries, and interactions, and share designs via links.
Prioritize financial stability, sales information, and client follow information in a four-section concept sketch for a sales dashboard. Treat daily business snapshot as secondary and iterate via feedback.
Develop a bridge from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity dashboards by focusing on information and visualization, revealing the secret sauce behind usable business dashboards.
Explore how information visualization guides dashboards to present large data sets concisely and intuitively, quickly highlighting what works, what doesn't, and enabling storytelling through interactive insights.
Demonstrates information visualization for a sales dashboard case study, turning raw data into insights with financial stability, sales analytics, and daily operations timeline, including actionable links to client details.
Explore how layout, color, icons, and fonts shape visual cognitive processing in business dashboards. Create a clear visual hierarchy where every design element strengthens communication and guides user attention.
Develop a UI style guide to specify UI components, enforce consistency, reference brand guidelines, and guide developers through dimensions, colors, and typography.
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!