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.