Dashboard Design Brief
Write a complete brief for a data dashboard — what to show, how to organize it, and what decisions it should drive.
Get the right chart type and visualization design for your data and the story you need to tell.
Recommend the right data visualization for my situation. **What I'm trying to communicate:** [The insight, comparison, trend, or relationship you want to show] **My data:** - What it represents: [e.g. monthly revenue, user demographics, product performance, survey results] - Structure: [How many variables? Categorical? Numeric? Time-based? Geographic?] - Size: [How many data points? e.g. 12 months of data, 500 survey responses, 5 product categories] **My audience:** [Who will see this? e.g. executives, analysts, customers, general public] **Where it appears:** [e.g. slide deck, dashboard, printed report, website, email] **Tool I'm using:** [e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Google Sheets, Excel, Matplotlib, D3.js, Canva] Recommend: 1. **Primary recommendation** — the best chart type for this data and message, with: - Why this chart type works here - What to put on each axis / in each element - Design choices that reinforce the message (color, labels, annotations) 2. **Alternative option** — a second chart type with pros and cons vs. the primary 3. **What NOT to use** — chart types that would distort or obscure this data, and why 4. **Design pitfalls** — the most common mistakes people make visualizing this type of data 5. **Example description** — describe what a well-executed version of this chart would look like
Choosing the right chart type and visualization approach for data presentations, dashboards, reports, and data storytelling.
A primary chart recommendation with design guidance, an alternative option with tradeoffs, chart types to avoid, common pitfalls, and a description of an ideal execution.
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