Dashboard Design for immediate Insight 2010

Dashboards have become a popular means to present critical Business information at a glance, but few do so effectively. Huge investments are made in Information Technology to produce actionable information, only to have it robbed of meaning at the very last stage of the process: the presentation of insights to those responsible for making decisions. When designed well, Dashboards engage the power of visual perception to communicate a dense collection of information in an instant with exceptional clarity. This can only be achieved, however, by applying visual design skills that address the unique design challenges of Dashboards. These skills are not intuitive; they must be learned.

You will learn to:

• Recognize the common problems in Dashboard design
• Match your message to the right means of display
• Avoid clutter and arrange data in a way that communicates clearly and at a glance

The delegates will also receive a copy of the new book “Information Dashboard Design” by Stephen Few.


STEPHEN FEW
He has more than 20 years of experience as an innovator, consultant, and educator in Information Technology (IT). Most of this time he has specialized in the fields of Data Warehousing (a.k.a. Business Intelligence and Decision Support) and Information Design. Today, as principal of the consultancy Perceptual Edge, Mr. Few focuses on the design and use of Business information for effective analysis and communication. Today, from his office at Perceptual Edge in Berkeley, California, Mr. Few provides consulting and training services, writes frequent articles for magazines such as DM Review, Intelligent Enterprise and Business Intelligence Journal, speaks at conferences such as those organized by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) and DCI, teaches in the MBA program at the Haas School of Business at the University of California in Berkeley. Mr. Few, a leader in the field of data visualization, author of the books “Show Me