Dashboard Design Simulator
Choose and arrange KPIs, visualizations, hierarchy, filters and alerts to build a decision-focused business dashboard.
A dashboard should make the decision easier—not merely display data.
This simulator lets learners select audience, time horizon, KPIs, charts, density, filters, hierarchy and alerts, with each change reflected immediately in the dashboard preview.
Dashboard Design Simulator — Step by Step
Eight locked stages move from user and decision context through KPI selection, visual encoding, layout, alert design, an executive challenge and management review.
Regional Service Performance Dashboard
Reveal the decision context to begin.
Evaluate the dashboard as a decision interface.
Build Your Own Dashboard Configuration
Experiment Mode is isolated from the guided demonstration. Configure audience, KPI set, visuals, density, hierarchy and alerts without changing guided progress.
Test dashboard-design judgement.
Dashboard-design cues
Start With the Decision
Define the user, decision, cadence and action before choosing measures or visualizations.
Limit Headline KPIs
Use a small number of decision-critical measures in the top layer. Put diagnostics lower in the hierarchy.
Match Chart to Question
Trend → line; comparison → bar; composition → stacked bar; dense matrix → heatmap; relationship → scatter.
Use Visual Hierarchy
Make the most important signal easiest to find through size, position, spacing and restrained emphasis.
Tune Alerts
Alert only when users should pay attention or act. Too many alerts create noise and weaken trust.
Preserve Context
Targets, variance, time horizon and filters help users understand whether a movement is material and comparable.
Design from the decision backward, preserve visual hierarchy and use charts, alerts and filters only when they help the user act.