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Tag: fundamentals

Whitespace in dashboard design

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 by Erica

In the last post in this series, we looked at how whitespace can help to clarify a restaurant menu. In this post, we’ll combine whitespace and text hierarchy to improve the design of this dashboard. This example is an actual dashboard that I found online, redrawn and edited to anonymize the information.    This post…

Designing for charts

Posted on March 1, 2020November 20, 2020 by Erica

“Good information design works like a tour guide that tells the user what matters most and where to go from here.” Every design system is the result of competition between different constraints, and a good design solution balances these competing influences to support a specific user task. For a chart, the primary task is analytical:…

White space: Visual Punctuation

Posted on February 1, 2020August 9, 2020 by Erica

“How do you use white space?” This is one of the most frequent questions that I get as a designer, especially from people who need to create information-dense displays like a dashboard or interactive display. White space is the blank area between items on the page, and it is very important for helping information to…

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