When designing a dashboard, use the following guidelines:

• Provide enough space for gadgets. Configure and position your gadgets to provide enough space to display properly in the dashboard.
• Avoid scroll bars. The best designed dashboards show all of the important Information without requiring the use of scroll bars. If scrolling is required, place the most important information and indicators in the most significant locations of the dashboard, either close to the top left corner or near the center of the dashboard.
• Design for different screen resolutions. The PMF Dashboard Designer enables you to design for any target screen resolution, but cannot automatically reconfigure and deploy your dashboard design to a lower resolution screen. Make sure you know the target resolutions your consumers will be using, and design alternate versions of the dashboards as needed.
• Mix contexts so users can see everything. Where possible, avoid requiring users to switch flags or options to see all of the data that is important to them. PMF enables you to configure each dashboard by owner, scorecard, or gadget, so you can point different gadgets to different contexts and avoid making users perform unnecessary clicks.
• Appropriate metrics. PMF can automatically detect and display valid metrics for each dashboard and scorecard. However, because PMF cannot select the most appropriate metric to display for a scorecard, you should set up appropriate default metrics for each scorecard.