User Experience Guidelines for shared dashboards (less is more)

Dashboards are cool.  

In offices everywhere, the "mission control" style displays made famous by NASA are being thrown up right and left as are cool graphics of KPI's for running the business.   

There are different sorts of dashboard displays that have dramatically different UX requirements.  There is often no serious user advocate for the UX portion of the project and typically, the prototyping envirorment for public displays doesn't use the actual display but just a computer screen.  This post is intended to help you discuss these issues with your users.

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