7 Deadly Sins of Dashboard Design

Dashboards should make operating a business easier for executives, but the opposite can occur when organizations commit one of several common mistakes while designing the company dashboard. Don’t be that business that embarrassingly succumbs to a poor dashboard layout.

Behold, the 7 deadly sins of dashboard design:

• Focusing on meaningless measures
• Failing to get support from key stakeholders
• Designing from the bottom up
• Not allowing actual users to be involved with the dashboard design
• Neglecting the user interface
• Trying to accomplish too much
• Not planning for growth