Dashboard Design Patterns

This paper introduces design patterns for dashboards to inform dashboard design processes. Despite a growing number of public examples, case studies, and general guidelines there is surprisingly little design guidance for dashboards. Such guidance is necessary to inspire designs and discuss tradeoff...

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Published inIEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11
Main Authors Bach, Benjamin, Freeman, Euan, Abdul-Rahman, Alfie, Turkay, Cagatay, Khan, Saiful, Fan, Yulei, Chen, Min
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.01.2023
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Conferences
Dashboards
Data visualization
Design
Design Patterns
Education
Encoding
Guidelines
Monitoring
Qualitative Evaluation
Storytelling
Task analysis
Tradeoffs
Visual Analytics
Visualization
Workshops
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Summary:This paper introduces design patterns for dashboards to inform dashboard design processes. Despite a growing number of public examples, case studies, and general guidelines there is surprisingly little design guidance for dashboards. Such guidance is necessary to inspire designs and discuss tradeoffs in, e.g., screenspace, interaction, or information shown. Based on a systematic review of 144 dashboards, we report on eight groups of design patterns that provide common solutions in dashboard design. We discuss combinations of these patterns in "dashboard genres" such as narrative , analytical , or embedded dashboard . We ran a 2-week dashboard design workshop with 23 participants of varying expertise working on their own data and dashboards. We discuss the application of patterns for the dashboard design processes, as well as general design tradeoffs and common challenges. Our work complements previous surveys and aims to support dashboard designers and researchers in co-creation, structured design decisions, as well as future user evaluations about dashboard design guidelines. Detailed pattern descriptions and workshop material can be found online: https://dashboarddesignpatterns.github.io
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ISSN:1077-2626
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DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209448