Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few

The Effective Visual Communication of Data

A practical guide to designing dashboards that communicate information quickly and effectively, emphasizing clarity, visual perception, and purposeful selection of metrics; it advocates simplifying displays by removing clutter and decoration, organizing content around key performance indicators, using appropriate visual encodings (tables, bars, lines, small multiples, sparklines) and preattentive attributes for rapid comprehension, providing context and comparisons to give meaning to numbers, and designing layout and interaction to support users’ tasks and decision-making.

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