Interactive Dashboards
Dashboards designed around a decision, not around whatever the tool made easy.
Most dashboards answer the question the tool made easiest, not the one the viewer had. They fill a screen with charts and leave the reader to work out what to do.
We design dashboards around a decision: what the viewer needs to notice, how quickly, and what they should do about it.
How we approach it
We interview the people who will use it daily and design for that specific job. A dashboard serving five different audiences generally serves none of them.
Why this matters
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Designed for a decision
Built around what the viewer must act on, not what the data allows.
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Exceptions surface
Thresholds and alerting so problems find the viewer, not the reverse.
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Fast enough to use
Query performance engineered so people do not abandon it.
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Readable by everyone
Accessible colour, labelling and contrast, including for colour-blind users.
What is included
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Decision framing
Workshops to establish what each audience needs to decide.
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Visualisation design
Chart choices that match the question rather than the default.
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Drill-through
A path from headline number to the underlying records.
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Alerting
Threshold and anomaly alerts delivered where people already work.
How we deliver it
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01
Discover
Workshops with the people who will use it, a map of the systems the dashboards has to fit alongside, and written agreement on what success looks like.
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02
Design
Architecture, data model and interface prototypes, reviewed with your team before any production code is written.
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Build
Two-week increments with a demo environment you can use throughout, so the roadmap stays open to change.
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Harden
Load testing, security review, accessibility audit and the operational tooling needed to go live safely.
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05
Operate
Support, iteration and a documented handover whenever you decide to run it in-house.
What you receive
- Decision and audience mapping
- Dashboard designs with visualisation rationale
- Production dashboards with drill-through
- Alerting configuration
- User training and adoption support
Tell us about your idea, and we'll make it happen.
Have a problem that needs solving? We would like to hear about it.