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Dashboard design feedback
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!
Hi Fabricadabra, I love that you've kept the focus of the dashboard simple, it's not overcrowded and focuses on just a few important metrics. Great!
You've received some valuable feedback from Natarajan_M already, so these are just a couple thoughts:
- Bump up the saturation - While many wouldn't mind the dark background, the colours used in any label and visual will need to contrast enough to be read without strain. Try using lighter shades of green or blue with more saturation.
- Keep naming consisent - For example, "Monthly income" should be "Monthly Income" to be consistent with the rest of the report.
- Align titles - The title on the pie chart is slightly overlapping the chart.
- Fonts - Some charts use different fonts to the rest of the dashboard. Try to keep it consistent.
- Possible additional metrics - You might want to also analyse expense category growth over time, and possibly highlight which expense category had the highest growth from previous month.
- Creativity with styles - I'd say add your own flavour to things a bit. Play around with colours and rounded corners.
In three words: consistency, contrast, creativity!