Dashboards people actually open

Designing around a standing decision rather than around available fields.

Full guide planned · 12 min read

The short version

The question to ask before building a dashboard is what standing decision it informs and who makes that decision. A dashboard nobody has a recurring reason to open is a screensaver. Designing around a decision rather than around available fields is what separates the ones people use from the ones that get bookmarked once.

The full guide is still being written

What is above is the Hub’s framing and the best outside reading we could verify — useful on its own, and honest about being a starting point rather than the finished piece. If something here is wrong, or you know a better source, that is worth telling us before the long version is written.

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