IxDA Hampton Roads (UX/UI Research & Design)

🍱 How To Design Effective Dashboard UX (+ Figma Kits). With practical techniques to drive accurate decisions with the right data. 🤔 Business decisions need reliable insights to support them. ✅ Good dashboards deliver relevant and unbiased insights. ✅ They require clean, well-organized, well-formatted data. ✅ Often packed in a tight grid, with little whitespace (if any). 🚫 Scrolling is inefficient in dashboards: makes comparing hard. ✅ Start with the audience and decisions they need to make. ✅ Study where, when and how the dashboard will be used. ✅ Study what metrics/data would support user’s decisions. ✅ Explore how to aggregate, organize and filter this data.  ✅ More data → more filters/views, less data → single values. 🚫 Simpler ≠ better: match user expertise when choosing charts. ✅ Prioritize metrics: key insights → top left, rest → bottom right. ✅ Then set layout density: open, table, grouped or schematic. ✅ Add customizable presets, layouts, views + guides, videos. ✅ Next, sketch dashboards on paper, get feedback, iterate. When designing dashboards, the most damaging thing we can do is to oversimplify a complex domain, or mislead the audience. Our data must be complete and unbiased, our insights accurate and up-to-date, and our UI must match users’ varying levels of data literacy. Dashboard value is measured by useful actions it prompts. So invest most of the design time scrutinizing metrics needed to drive relevant insights. Bring data owners and developers early in the process. You will need their support to find sources, but also clean, verify, aggregate, organize and filter data. Good questions to ask: 🧭 What decisions do you want to be more informed on? (Purpose) 😤 What’s the hardest thing about these decisions? (Frustrations) 📊 Describe how you are making these decisions? (Sources) 🗃️ What data helps you make these decisions? (Metrics) 🧠 How much detail is needed for each metric? (Data literacy) 🚀 How often will you be using this dashboard? (Value) 🎲 What constraints should we know about? (Risks) And, most importantly, test dashboards repeatedly with actual users. Choose representative tasks and see how successful users are. It won’t be right the first time, but once you get beyond 80% success rate, your users might never leave your dashboard again. ✤ Dashboard Patterns + Figma Kits: Data Dashboards UX: https://lnkd.in/eticxU-N 👍 dYdX: https://lnkd.in/d6yvKS6G 👍 Ethr: https://lnkd.in/eSTzcN7V Orange: https://lnkd.in/ewBJZcgC 👍 Semrush Charts + Tables: https://lnkd.in/dnDRtG32 👍 UI Charts: https://lnkd.in/eJkyB6zS UKO: https://lnkd.in/ehvcSnuV 👍 Wireframes: https://lnkd.in/e-m3VQqs 👍 [continues in comments]

If you were “working” during our #Config2024 announcements, here’s everything new → UI3, a redesigned Figma → Figma AI (Make Design, Make Prototype, Visual Search, Replace Content, Rename Layers) → Figma Slides → Dev Mode updates (Ready for Dev View, Focus View, More Statuses) → Code Connect is out of beta (!!) → Auto Layout improvements → Responsive Prototyping Viewer → UI Kits (Including Apple iOS and Material 3!) inside Figma → FigJam Pages https://lnkd.in/gU4r9fe

Design is on halt this week for many companies. The turnout for #Config2024 is ridiculous!

Volunteering locally + sharing knowledge = pure energy! 🔥 Last night I had the chance to speak with small business owners about product research, design, development, and management practices and tools. Needless to say, their interest and enthusiasm fired me up! Nothing beats connecting with passionate entrepreneurs and helping them bring their ideas to life. Thank you Fun1st Education & Howard Hesson for creating this resource and allowing me to contribute to a part of the learning journey. - - - Have you volunteered your skills lately? The impact you can make is incredible. Plus, you might just learn something new yourself! #GivingBack #SmallBusiness #ProductDevelopment #CommunityEngagement