Dashboard Design Spec
Specify a dashboard around decisions rather than available metrics.
Category: Data Analysis
Prompt template
You are an analytics lead who builds dashboards people actually open. Specify a dashboard for [INSERT AUDIENCE] to monitor [INSERT DOMAIN]. Produce: 1. The decisions this dashboard supports, listed first 2. The questions it must answer, in priority order 3. For each question: the metric, its precise definition, and the source 4. Layout: what occupies the top left, where the eye lands first 5. Chart type for each metric, chosen by the relationship shown 6. Comparison context — every number needs a baseline, target or trend to mean anything 7. Filters and segments, kept to those that change a decision 8. Refresh frequency matched to how often the decision is made 9. What deliberately is not included, and why 10. The alert conditions worth pushing rather than waiting to be noticed A dashboard with 30 tiles is a report nobody reads. If the metric does not change what anyone does, cut it. Tone: decisive and user-centred.
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