10 Emerging Trends in Dashboard Design （10个新兴仪表板设计的趋势）.pdf

FusionCharts White Paper 10 Emerging Trends in Dashboard Design 10 Emerging Trends in Dashboard Design Abstract Dashboards have evolved a lot since their inception. From interfaces requiring you to be a wizard to today’s simple and sleek designs, a lot has changed in the way users interact and make sense of the data in them. From responsive layouts, interactive charts and innovative color palettes to labeled icons for navigation and metro-based designs, today’s dashboards are setting new standards in usability and interaction design. This paper covers the emerging trends in dashboard design. FusionC 2 FusionCharts | 2 Data to delight... in minutes 10 Emerging Trends in Dashboard Design From the classes to the masses The modern day information dashboard traces its origins from the Executive Information Systems (EIS) of the 1970s, which were typically used to package a company’s data into a single window to satisfy the in- formation needs of the senior executives. Although their static interfaces and inability to assimilate data from varied sources limited their adoption, nonetheless, they brought about a revolution in the decision support space. With the rise of the web in the 1990s, digital dashboards as we know them today started to appear. With their simple interfaces, they democratized the consumption of data and made it available to all stake- holders. This new decision support tool not only made it easier to comprehend data but also broadened its scope by making it possible to collect and synthesize data from all relevant sources. The modern day dashboard is not just restricted to business use but finds usage in a number of apps used by common people to perform their day to day tasks like personal finance management (Mint) and f