Mastering Dashboard Design: The Best 10-Step Dashboard Workflow for Building Actionable Dashboards

The ultimate dashboard development workflow

A dashboard is a visual display of important information, metrics, or data points, presented in charts, graphs, and tables, and it provides a clear and concise overview of KPIs or trends. It is typically interactive, allowing users to filter and drill down into the data for deeper insights.

Dashboards are widely used in business, data analysis, IT environments, technology, fitness and health apps, and music to monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs), track goals, and make data-driven decisions. It drives real insights, solves problems, and empowers users to make decisions.

There is a dashboard for everything…

I put together this Dashboard Development Workflow after creating several dashboards myself, making mistakes, and optimizing the feedback I received to learn, grow, and develop better dashboards that serve the audience and the stakeholders.

A good dashboard starts by understanding the needs of the people (audience/stakeholders) who will use it, designing something clear and intuitive, and making sure it helps people make the right decisions.

It is all about the audience…