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UI / UX Design process for PowerBI
Hi Walls,
I have been working on Power BI for 3 years now. Though there are some improvements to the basic design tools of Power BI, they are still very limited and pretty basic. Like dbuchter mentioned, I too use layering technique and use some tweaks and hacks to get the look and feel desired in the report, but it will be just limited to the web version of the report. Layering definitely won't work for mobile version of the report and on the Power BI dashboards too. That is a big road block. Also, with layering and tweaks, the basic feature like showing tooltips in web version too gets impacted. The ability of having interaction between different visuals which are in the same page, by clicking on them also gets compromised to a certain extent depending on the design. Sometimes we just have to depend on the filtering pane. I can list out some more when I start making the reports but those are my immediate thoughts. Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Hi! Thank you for your reply.
Seems like a lot of these visuals come pretty pre-packaged. Do you think adding layers and over-customizing could be avoided? If I kept tool tips out and made only basic changes (placement, padding, color, corner radius, text) to meet some feel of consistancy do you think that could keep the mobile views and interactions clean?
Hi Walls99,
The UX/UI designers that I work with use Adobe XD and sometimes InVision to generate the prototypes. But in most cases, I couldn't replicate their designs 100% in Power BI because of the limited designing options it has. I try to get the visuals close enough to match the design.
It is always good to avoid layers in Power BI as they limit the interactions. As long as we use the pre-packaged options available within Power BI and play around the visual properties that are available, it would be good. I haven't seen any issues in either mobile or web versions so far when I tried tweaking the visual properties to get the desired result.
Cheers,