Dashboard
Interface Design

Real-time monitoring and automation tools reduce the hours of analyzing spreadsheets or countless pages of old school printed reports or patient files, which has plagued the healthcare industry for eons.

Analytics, trends, occurrences, and the processing and compiling of data can all be done through dashboards via different application processing interfaces (APIs), freeing up exorbitant amounts of time and staff energy.

Data can be visualized on a dashboard in thousands of ways, such as tables, line charts, bar charts, maps, bubbles and and many others. All of these visuals help users track the health of their business against benchmarks and goals, which is now a critical process for any business. Dashboard design companies focus on creating dashboards that allow data to be easily displayed, understood, and acted upon. It the action part that we are all seeking, creating visuals that create insight and inspire immediate and effective action.

For example, a survey by The Data Warehousing Institute reported that about half of the 473 business intelligence professionals were using dashboards and that a further 17% of the respondents were in the process of developing a dashboard solution in their organizations (Eckerson). Also, a more recent survey by Gartner Inc. found that dashboards have been rapidly replacing reporting and ad-hoc analysis in Western organizations.

An analytics dashboard is a data visualization tool that allows all users to understand analytics without having to do one single calculation or spend any time learning about what is presented. Even for non-technical users, dashboards allow them to participate and understand the analytics by compiling data and visualizing trends and occurrences. Data dashboards don’t rely on interpretation, they provide a completely objective view of performance metrics and serve as an effective foundation for immediate business decisions and planning. Dashboard interface design is a service focused on building tools used to display data visualizations that are immediately useful.

Changes to any aspect of a business, whether it be in marketing, sales, support, or finance, has an impact on the business as a whole. KPI dashboards give an immediate and precise look at how different departments success or failures are impacting the company as a whole.

People have been monitoring their businesses without dashboards for ages, but data dashboards make it a heck of a lot easier that can stop you from wasting time and money. With dashboards, users are able to dig into a level of performance understanding that provides an articulate and insightful view of the KPIs of any organizations. Whether your businesses data is stored on a web service, attachment or API, a dashboard pulls this information and allows you to monitor all your data in one central location. Additionally, dashboards are capable of correlating data from different sources in a single visualization. By monitoring multiple KPIs and metrics on one central dashboard, users can make adjustments to their business practices in real-time.

A small graphic can convey a lot more than an entire line of text. However, the trend is shifting more towards labeled icons for navigation, a small icon followed by a one or two word description. This ensures that new users are not left guessing the meaning of those icons or symbols.

Iconography labeling is a fundamental aspect of user interface design, focusing on the judicious use of icons and their accompanying textual labels to enhance user experience.

Effective iconography labeling in design not only makes the interface aesthetically pleasing but also ensures accessibility and inclusivity.

Color is often used in design to communicate with users, helping them achieve their goals and understand navigational options.

Properly executed interface color schemes not only enhance the visual appeal of a digital product but also play a pivotal role in facilitating navigation, conveying information, and ensuring a user-friendly and inclusive experience.

Will the dashboard provide background data or will it be powerful enough to actually formulate conclusions? In addition to knowing what you’re trying to say, it’s important to know who you’re saying it to. Does your audience know this subject matter extremely well or will it be new to them?

What kind of cues will they need to easily digest the information without having to struggle? Do you need a mobile dashboard design? Thinking about these questions before you head into the design phase can help you create a successful dashboard.

And does your audience understand basic dashboard design interaction tools, or will they need a certain level of training in order to make the best use of the tool that has been built for them?

This means that the first thing you must do when looking at an outline or dataset is to intimately understand the content and the underlying needs for this content. Data visualization is powerful because it brings plain data to life.

This is especially true of the relationships among the points in your dataset. If you’re using dates, is there a pattern in the frequency? For a list of items, is everything in the list independent and equal? Or are there sub groups that have their own relationships.

No matter your data type, always look for outliers. Real life is messy — and so is raw data. Not everything will fit neatly into a simple bar chart or perfect bell curve, but considering the data types and what types of functionality that may accentuate this data will ultimately dictate the UI itself.

A Fuselab design system includes a collection of reusable components, patterns, and guidelines that ensure consistency and efficiency in the design and development process of digital products. We are absolutely passionate about creating pixel perfect design systems where every function is elaborately documented. Development teams love working with us because of the level of detail in our design systems, and the amount of documentation we include.

Whether it’s a personal finance dashboard that makes you conscious of your spending trends or an enterprise marketing dashboard that helps you keep track of your marketing budgets, both heighten your awareness of a situation, giving you the sense of control, which, let’s face it, is something we all crave. If you are running a dashboard interface design agency and want to be successful, we highly recommend making your UX research as exhaustive as possible. The only way to build something that will last is to put in the time needed to build your product upon a solid foundation.

We love to be in control. Imagine a situation where you are unaware of what’s happening around you. Very soon your panic button is switched on and you want to know what’s going on and what you can and can’t control. From an evolutionary standpoint, if we are in control of our environment we have a better chance of survival. Our subconscious mind prepares us for all kinds of danger (fight or flight) based on our perceived level of control, and regardless of our awareness of this fact, we experience these emotions on a fairly consistent basis.

In our experience, we have found that there is no other industry more aptly positioned to take advantage of the digital dashboard than the medical community. As this is an industry where the amount of data available can be suffocating, and yet being able to make use of this data can be the difference between life and death, literally! Healthcare also pulls on our heartstrings as designers, as many of us never imagined when we began that our work might actually help people live healthier and longer lives.

Dashboard systems in hospitals need a user interface (UI) that can centrally manage and retrieve various information related to patients in a single screen, support the decision-making of medical professionals in real- time by integrating scattered medical information systems and core workflows, enhance the competence and decision-making ability of medical professionals, and reduce the probability of misdiagnosis. See our work examples below.

Citeline, an Informa company, asked Fuselab to help create a human-centered UX for a critical application in the pharmaceutical industry. The Datamonitor system needed to create a path for researchers to determine where there is the largest need for their products, and the ability to track the success of existing treatments for specific diseases across the world.

Fuselab created an interactive web application that allowed users, within very few clicks to see relevant data across the world and then to compare that data by going back in history and into the future using a custom AI predictive analytics system. The simple map-based system provided an intuitive interface that needed almost no explanation or training.

The final platform debut took place at an annual meeting where pharmaceutical staff from across the spectrum of companies got to try out the new system and provide feedback. Since that time use of the new tool as increased 100% over the old platform and Informa has received a considerable increase in visitor’s their health monitor webpage.

ReferralMD was in need of rethinking the design of it’s software UX/UI as well as its public website. This would require hundreds of interface designs for the software system alone.

Fuselab Creative developed an entirely new corporate brand identity and detailed style guide that was used to create a simple, yet extremely efficient user flow for doctors and medical professionals to better manage their patient referrals, all from one dashboard of information.

ReferralMD is now one of the fastest growing physician relationship management systems in the country and has been formally endorsed by Cedar Sinai Medical Group.

If you drive a lot or actually drive for a living, you are probably using your phone to navigate while also checking the weather and possibly chatting with friends. In other words, there are too many distractions taking your eyes off the road.

Our design for Mixed Reality virtual technology creates a “heads up” environment, coupled with voice navigation that changes the driving and navigation experience while also offering a much safer and enjoyable experience for drivers everywhere.

The platform is still in the beta testing phase for car manufacturers considering adding these options to their vehicles, however, the feedback received thus far has been extremely positive. We hope to see Mixed Reality dashboards on the road soon!

X4D had four very specific problems:

• It’s a very complex system with many multi-layered views.
• The system is not visually uniform.
• Need a web interface/platform in addition to the software.
• Need to bypass web limitations when dealing with nested levels of data.

The dashboard-based software we designed provides several unique, user-friendly views, including a general project overview, a comprehensive scheduler for tracking the status of individual milestones and regulatory permit approvals, as well as any critical deviations from the initial plan along with supervisor approvals.

The very first block provides high-level information about the general project properties such as: project dates, planned project time and the number of planned tasks that have to be carried out. The dashboards have been divided into three blocks.
As the user goes deeper into the platform, they are able to get more granular in the data the can engage with.

The heart of the problem with the exisiting Automatize system was that it was actually the commingling of ten different systems, and very few of them were able to communicate with each, or provide and kind of reliable analytics.

Fuselab created an “all-in-one” dashboard that allows fleet managers and front line staff real-time access to trip details and predictive data, while also implementing a live map for visually tracking of all trucks within the system and over 100 datapoints for each, including live video.

Automatize now has one of the most modern and effective telematics systems in the world. They are now not only servicing one the largest energy companies in the world, they are on the verge of signing several other similar organizations working in the Gulf of Mexico.

SunSniffer understood that many solar power providers suffered from a lot of the same management, efficiency, and production issues across the world. They needed a centralized monitoring and power distribution system that could manage large panel arrays from one central dashboard.

The primary goal for the dashboard we created UX/UI design for was to design something that would be able to communicate issues across an entire solar power grid within seconds. Next, it needed to allow for customization by the engineer so that they would be able to change panels orientation to maximize power outputs and collection efficiency.

Solar panel power production management requires constant oversight and manipulation. With our dashboard functionality, we created a system for staff that allows them to maximize the output of solar power and to closely monitor the efficiency and safety of individual panels through critical data collection and the ability to filter that data.