The document discusses visual design principles for effective dashboards. It recommends deciding on essential content, sketching alternative designs, and getting early user feedback in iterations of 3-5 users. Key visual design elements include keeping designs simple, hiding complexity, focusing on the task, using visual planes to emphasize important elements, eliminating chart junk, and using small multiples. Color should be used deliberately and consider color blind users. The overall goals are for dashboards to provide what users need quickly and easily without extra visual noise or thinking.

1. Visual Design

2. Visual Design
Dashboards with Impact

3. Jeff Belden MD
University of Missouri
Family & Community Medicine

9. Making dashboards

12. Decide content

13. Pare to the essentials

14. Sketch

17. Try several alternatives

21. Ask your users
early & often

22. Ask your users
early & often
3 - 5 real users at each iteration

24. Visual Design Elements

25. Keep it simple

26. Keep it simple
Hide complexity

29. Stay focused

30. Stay focused
on just the task at hand

31. For example

32. For example
Finding ICD-9 Codes

36. Use “Visual Planes”

37. Use “Visual Planes”
Emphasize key elements

38. Use “Visual Planes”
Emphasize key elements
Subdue the less important

40. Use “Small Multiples”

42. Eliminate ChartJunk

43. Eliminate ChartJunk
Dampen visual noise

46. WINWINIANM

47. WINWINIANM
What I need, when I need it, and nothing more

48. View for doing refills

49. Overall dashboard view

50. Use color deliberately

51. to call
attention

52. to convey meaning

53. Hello Dave

54. Remember
the color blind

55. Remember
the color blind

58. Red-Yellow-Green
Alternatives

62. Consider Printing

65. Avoid Glitter

68. Don’t make me think

69. Thinking hard

70. No-brainer

72. Four ways mPages
affect office workflow

73. Saves time

75. from 60 clicks
5 minutes

76. to 2 clicks
1 minute

77. Trend-spotters

78. Trend-spotters
Tiny graphs: sparklines, bullet graphs

81. Decision Support

82. Decision Support
links to care algorithms

84. Quality feedback

85. Quality feedback
at the point of care

87. Want to learn more?

90. Jeff Belden MD
University of Missouri
Family & Community Medicine
beldenj@health.missouri.edu
toomanyclicks.com
slideshare.net/jeffbelden