Rank the decision
Every panel must answer a named decision. If the team cannot write that sentence, the chart is decoration.
Analytics Dashboard Design for Apps, without the wallpaper charts
Dashboard Craft is our public field guide: how Sensortrailbase thinks about signal ranking, interaction choreography, and stakeholder critique for product analytics surfaces.
Design the silence
Empty states, delayed loads, and sparse weekends need as much care as peak-hour heatmaps.
Motion that explains
Use transitions to show change over time — not to celebrate that JavaScript can bounce.
What we teach under this topic
Analytics Dashboard Design for Apps spans layout systems, data literacy, and facilitation. We cover responsive KPI stacks for phones, comparative lanes for tablets, and dense ops boards for desktop war rooms.
Teams leave with critique language that survives executive walkthroughs: threshold stories, delta honesty, and a shared glossary between design and analytics.
Signal hierarchy
Event mapping
Mobile density
Stakeholder critique