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I have been doing it a long time, I am a subject matter expert in manufacturing and healthcare as well as service improvement and Lean. What that means is I've held senior positions in those I industries before joining IT. What THAT mean is that in most cases I know what the client should be looking at even if they don't. How that relates to design. Step 1 understand the ask. Is it corporate, historical reporting, is it a live data dashboard, is it predictive, interactive with what if parameters? Is it a highly technical deep dive for solving complex problems? Why are they looking at the dashboard and what decisions will they make with the information provided? Step 2 once you know the purpose and the decisions get to know the data. What does it tell you, what could it tell you and what data can you join together or compare (eg, costs and sales together, staffing of porters vs admition delays, customer retention vs OTIF %). Step 3 look and feel, keep it simple, nice design touches like rounded corners, shadow, fonts,colour palette. background colour fade etc whatever you choose keep it consistent. If blue is sales use it throughout the report. Create standard spacings between items and keep cards in consistent places. If your slicers are on right or left keep them in the same place. If a slicer goes green when selected make it consistent. If your field parameters do a different thing to a slicer, make them obviously different. Step 4 not for all content but for most large audience content create consistent navigation buttons on each page. The more you make it like a website the more comfortable, non technical people will be with it. Typically for me, a home, back, reset all filters and an information button that pops up an explination of what's on the page and how to read most of the charts Step 5 have an overview page which can double as a landing page. Typically with cards with key kpis and navigation buttons. One place to see high level data and jump into the exact info I want. Step 6 bringing it together, some of my complex deep dive reports have 50+ individual pages each explaining some aspect of the business or service. When going to one of my pages you should clearly be able to answer one or more of the specific business questions. Should we invest in a certain product, how does out if area patients affect discharge rates, how does product age affect sales by category. Whatever is the ask make it obvious and visible. May pages tend to have more content on than most and certainly more than recommended by some experts. But is nothing there on the page by accident or a filler, everything has purpose. Step 7 never lose the audience. There should by dynamic titles at the top of the page explaining what you are looking at and what major slicers have been selected. Reset filters buttons. Make use of smart narratives or build your own. A small box saying the important info in actual words will bring a whole new audience, not everyone likes charts as much as you. Sales went up 20% in footwear, ent has the longest average waits etc. Step 8 data quality, tell the truth. Find out the rules for completeness, correctness and timeliness of data and score your data. Create a data quality page on every important report that makes it clear which rules were broken for which key fields. Eg Asia sales are a week behind, only 60% of patient visits are captured etc. Turn that info into a data quality score for what is on the page and use a gauge, a% or whatever consistent tool to show data quality which is a button/link to the data quality page. If you are building something important using critical data it's important to make the end user aware of just how crap the input data actually is. Otherwise, they could make the wrong decision. Be truthful. People often blindly believe power bi reports. 90+% of what I do is with standard visuals and a small number of go-tos such as sankey, chicklet, some guages, infographic builder deneb and svgs. There are 500 visuals in the store with many of them paid, which is fair enough, people should be paid for thier work but in most environments for clients that extra money causes more problems than it solves. There are some amazingly powerful tools that just happen to be visuals but they are only worth it for specific jobs. As for keep it simple? No, keep it appropriate for your audience. If you have a highly technical audience for a complex topic you will often need complex data transformations and complex visuals. Power bi can be a hugely technical tool but always remember the ask and the audience. More on reddit.com

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