Dashboard design principles are all very well, but what do they look like in practice? This blog will walk you through nine golden rules, with a real-life dashboard example for each. By following these simple steps you can create a dashboard that's clear and effective. And you don't need to be a designer to make yours look great. Enjoy building!

You may have noticed that things are looking a little different around here, as we’ve made the biggest changes to our brand and product since we launched over a decade ago. Our old brand: There were several motivations behind the rebrand. Firstly, our visual identity was inconsistent. We’d last rebranded back in 2014, and since then our look and feel had moved on, but in an organic and un-codified way.

As your company grows, and departments become more specialized, teams can lose sight of overall performance. A dashboard is a great way to present the “pulse” of your business, and keep your team in the loop. Plus, it saves you from creating reports, which are often overlooked or out of date by the time people read them. But what aspects of company performance should you and your team be tracking?

We’ve redesigned our dashboards, and added a grouping feature to make our TV dashboards the simplest, clearest way to share key numbers with your team. Oh, and we’ve rebranded too.

Is anyone not sold on the benefits of becoming more data-driven? Data brings a wealth of benefits, enabling a world where intuition, gut-feel and conjecture give way to hypotheses validated by concrete information. But even if data is the new oil, finding an effective way of extracting it is easier said than done – just like oil, it’s liable to spills, hard to refine and difficult to manage.