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Best Practice Dashboard Design Resources A Purpose-Filled Dashboard - Who is my audience? What Type of Dashboard am I creating? Valuable websites: www.perceptualedge.com www.edwardtufte.com/tufte www.many-eyes.com www.informationisbeautiful.net www.dashboardinsight.com www.dashboardspy.com www.kpilibrary.com www.ge.com www.kuler.adobe.com – colour palettes www.prezi.com – for interesting presentations Some Quotes and Definitions Stephen Few’s definition of a dashboard: A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. “Business Intelligence is a discipline which relies on technology, data, processes, skills and business acumen, to challenge the status quo” - Gill Staniland “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exuper “Simplicity is easy to use, but can be hard to design” - Edward de Bono “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” — Pablo Picasso “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” - Steve Jobs Stephen Few’s quick Dashboard questionnaire: Before you start throwing charts on a page, make sure you can answer these questions…….
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