Nina's Dashboard Goes From Loud To Guided
Explain why reducing clutter and adding deliberate visual hierarchy improves dashboard decision quality.
Nina needs the plant team to spot the shift risk in under ten seconds. Reveal how the dashboard changed. Before: every metric is visually loud, so the exception has to compete. After: the visual hierarchy moves the room from status to exception to action. Grouped related measures into a scanning path. This supports the dashboard's narrative arc: normal state first, exception second, action third. Muted routine metrics and reserved one accent for the exception. Knaflic's focus-attention principle works because contrast should signal priority. Removed decorative gauges and repeated legends. The remaining marks either encode data, explain scale, or guide the…
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