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- dMullins0
How do you plan on legally using that typeface in your dashboard?
- ukit0
Isn't the purpose of the dashboard to help people easily understand the data? You've made everything exactly the same weight which makes it difficult to scan quickly. How about breaking it up into smaller sections, and incorporating imagery, possibly some hierarchy in the type?
Also it seems weird to see everything set in a non system font. Is this an HTML web app and if so, are you planning on rendering all of that via JS? That could be a pretty big performance hit.
- noneck0
You should right-align the dollar values.
- e-wo0
Excellent advice, ukit. Thanks. I'll be working on that.
(Client has yet to provide the actual categories of metrics, so I'm holding off breaking into smaller sections before I know how)
- wordssssss0
actually you should decimal align
- ukit0
I've found it's hard to get reference points for these kinds of internal apps but there are tons of screenshots on Flickr of this kind of thing. Search for UI patterns or design patterns.
- monNom0
Why are there three columns of the same data?
Do they relate to fiscal quarters? nowhere does it say what these columns represent. Why aren't similar headings aligned so you can scan left to right?honestly I don't know how you design something without knowing what the data is that you're designing for... maybe that's why it doesn't make any sense.
I'd lose the red and green type. The green is garish and near-illegible. Black would be much better. A negative could be a liability in good standing (like a business loan), which is not bad and should not be red.
Youd be better off using a more monocromatic colour scheme focused on typography, and use your colours sparingly
- utopian0
overall, it is clean and simple, that is good
• the typeface feels wrong
• content needs more seperation, definition
• the colors seem washed out
- Josev0
All of your items have the same heirarchy. There's no way to group or break them into data sets? Are any of these numbers/figures more important or referenced more often by the end user? Did you talk to any of the people who will be using this?
- fugged0
i'd consider some graphs or data visualizations. money/time always interesting
- danielajurcevic0
are they going to use dynamically database generated images for displaying the data? If not, you may want to try to design with aliased and web supported fonts (you know, verdana, arial, trebuchet, tahoma etc.)
- ckentish0
minor point but use more varied data during the design process - using the same figures achieves symmetry and neatness that won't exisit in the real app.