Work-in-progress screenshot of my dashboard design
I am working on a software application for time-tracking / project management / data visualization and analysis (of your projects). I am going to build this application in Scala and Liftweb. I am switching between developing, working out ideas, GUI design, and everything else I like to be doing to get this application off the ground.
Currently I am working on a screen design for a dashboard (see below). It is just a work in progress, but since I am a proponent of iterative and evolutionary development, I’d like to present you this screen design of a dashboard. It is not finished yet, and should just give an impression of the direction I am going. There are some questions that are unanswered for now, like: should I create multiple dashboards, or just one you can filter? Anyway, here is the design:
Your feedback is more than welcome!
Two questions:
I understand it is still a work in progress, but are there additional data sets you want to display at the same time?
Have you or will you objectively test it against Stephen Few’s “13 Common Pitfalls in Dashboard Design”? (Found in detail at http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/Common_Pitfalls.pdf )
Your first question: yes, probably there will be displayed some more data sets, but I am not sure which ones yet.
Your second question: I am using 2 books by Stephen Few as guideline for my design: “Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis” and “Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data” which also contains the 13 common pitfalls. I didn’t know about the PDF your referring to, so thanks for that! It’s a nice quick reference that way…