Definition of Dashboard

What is a 2nd generation Dashboard:

1. Presents the main drivers of the organization’s activity on a single screen/page – giving instantaneous information and integrated vision.
2. Comunicates, preferentially, through graphs.
3. Uses basic methods of design to convey the information efficiently.
4. Enphasizes what really is important.
5. Guides the user through its reading.
6. Combines the information efficiently under different perspectives, in order to expose relations which would be hard to detect individually.
7. Uses a creative, simple, direct and elegant design.

 Author: Jorge Caldeira