From the course: Interaction Design: Dashboards and Visualization
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Layout and hierarchy - Sketch Tutorial
From the course: Interaction Design: Dashboards and Visualization
Layout and hierarchy
- [Instructor] We've gone over some common graph types used to visualize data and visual principles to keep in mind while designing graphs. Dashboards, broadly defined, are a series of charts or graphs that drive meaning from data in a single view. They can be web based interactive interfaces or an Excel spreadsheet. Dashboard design follows the same visual design principles that we apply to designing user interfaces. Check out my other course, Interaction Design for Interface if you'd like to know more. When designing layouts for dashboards, we need to understand how each data point is related to each other. While the entire dashboard has an overall picture of the data, areas within the dashboard can indicate relationships and priority. In this high level example of a sales dashboard, these are two different layouts. The dashboard on the left shows a top section with two data points in the same section, indicating a…
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