Dashboard design best practices
Throughout this section, we will review some useful recommendations that will help you create not only engaging, but also effective and user-friendly dashboards. Remember that they may apply differently depending on the information displayed and the audience you are working with. Nevertheless, they are great guidelines in the field of data visualization, so do not hesitate to consider them in all your developments.
Gestalt principles
In the early 1900s, the Gestalt School of Psychology conducted a series of studies on human perception in order to understand how our brain interprets forms and recognizes patterns. Understanding these principles might help you create a better structure for your dashboard and make your charts easier to interpret.
- Proximity: When we see multiple elements located near one another, we tend to see them as a group. For example, we can visually distinguish clusters in a scatter plot by grouping the dots according to their position.
- Similarity...
