Intuitiveness comes from familiarity

Make your Dashboards 5 times more intuitive using this trick

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Z-pattern eye movement

Determine if the visual flow of the dashboard goes from most important to least important information

Usually, your eyes move from left to right in the Z-pattern

(Assumption that cultural dialects go from left to right)

Make sure your visualizations help you look at places with more important information before the least

Another rule of thumb is to start high and drill down to specific

Look that the chart starts with high-level KPIs and finishes with table details

This flow is important if you want to bring a logical story to your dashboard

As you can see in this example, the level of detail flows in the Z pattern

KPI -> Charts -> Tabular details

Look how the slicers are placed where info can be easily missed

That's a wrap!

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