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Hello everyone, a client asked me to come with for financial overview dashboard that show insights about expenses and revenue. They didnt provide certain measures. Any feedback is appreciated. In...
Nice looking report. It has a clean color palette and good KPI hierarchy.
For better readability, I’d suggest shortening the month labels to “Jan, Feb, Mar…” instead of full names to reduce visual clutter and avoid rotated text. Also consider applying Gestalt / SCRAP design principles, improve spacing between elements, keep metric colors consistent across visuals, align charts more tightly, and group related items by proximity. That will make the layout feel cleaner and easier to scan.
Have a nice day!
Natarajan_M
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Super UserHi your visuals are a good starting point for the report development.
Here are a few best practices to consider:
- Place the most important metrics (e.g., revenue, profit, cost) that you want the user to focus on immediately in the top row.
- The trend and composition visualizations should occupy the middle row.
- Detailed information, such as tables or matrices, should be at the bottom or accessible via a drill-through.
- Use red, green, or amber to clearly indicate positive or negative aspects.
- Place the visuals in Z order, left-to-right approach: place the most important metrics on the left and the least important on the right (as human eyes are trained this way).
- Use the dashboard real estate wisely, including some white space; black backgrounds are not typically used in enterprise dashboards.
- Abbreviate the month names and use a horizontal orientation instead of slanting.
- Use positive and negative shading to display month-to-month growth.
- The dual-axis chart's percentage is not properly formatted.
- Slicers are currently missing.
Thanks
Thank you. Very valuable feedback especially "Use positive and negative shading to display month-to-month growth"
