Design a Power BI dashboard

We shall now be discussing some of the important features for designing a Power BI dashboard. Since a dashboard is an overview, a single place used to monitor the current state of the data based on underlying reports and datasets, containing loads of details. Therefore it allows readers to drill into the reports from your dashboard. So, you are not recommended to put all detail on the dashboard unless any requirement to monitor. Further, if the Power BI dashboard has to be displayed on a large monitor, we can put more content on it. But in case the readers view it on their tablets, a dashboard with fewer tiles is more readable.

Key tips for Designing a Dashboard

• Firstly, consider your audience: It is important to consider your audience some of the key pointers to include key metrics that will help them make decisions, usage of the dashboard. As well as, you must consider the cultural assumptions that affect design choices, information required by the audience for better output.
• Secondly, tell your story in one screen: Since dashboards are meant to show important information at a glance, having all the tiles on one screen is best. So remember, the dashboard should not be cluttered and easily readable.
• Thirdly, make use of the full screen: When you are presenting a dashboard, display it in full screen mode, without distractions.
• Next, accent the most important information: This indicates that you must highlight or display important information by using visualization skills.
• Then place all the information according to importance: You must put the highest level of data at the top left corner, and show more detail as you move in the direction the audience uses for reading.
• Lastly, Use the right visualization for the data: You must focus on a simple graphic visualization and avoid visualization variety for the sake of variety.