Dashboard Screenshots published on September 18, 2006. Update: This set of icons for enterprise dashboard metrics has become a very popular resource. Enjoy using them in your dashboards. Remember - red, green or yellow - the particular state is not what is so important - the key fact is that the state is being communicated to the user - a big win for the enterprise dashboard project in any business!
Here at the Dashboard Spy, there is a continuing effort to supply the enterprise dashboard project community with truly useful materials. Previously we made available a unique executive dashboard mockup and wireframe tool called the Cool Blue Template. It was a big hit that was downloaded by many executive dashboard project managers, business users, business analysts and enterprise dashboard developers. In a similar vein, I now offer this Enterprise Dashboard Indicator Status Icon Set. It’s a powerpoint-based template containing icons and graphic resources from many difference sources that have come in very handy in past enterprise dashboard projects. Kind of my “go to” set of icons. Note: I did not create most of these icons, but I did “spy” them.
Typically they were used for presentations to the business users to visualize the dashboard process and its benefits. These red/yellow/green status indicators were collected over time and multiple dashboarding projects. Once dashboard implementation team members got a hold of some of these icons, the sets started becoming famous. I now make them available to the general Dashboard Spy community. Enjoy using them. This set focuses on dashboard indicator status graphics. Other sets will feature icon sets that feature KPIs, user groups, business processes, etc. To download these icons, visit the Red Light, Green Light 123 Dashboard Graphics page.
Tags: Business Intelligence Dashboard Design, Enterprise Dashboard Graphics, Icons for enterprise dashboard metrics
Homework: The best way to make sure that your dashboard is a success is to really pay attention to the design phase of the project. Well worth studying is this lavishly illustrated book, Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data.
Everyone is asking - "Who is The Dashboard Spy?" As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of enterprise dashboards. Put on a business intelligence project, he simply could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) and so set about creating his own. By sneaking around IT departments grabbing screenshots and pestering dashboard implementation people, he was able to find real executive dashboard samples. After a while, he found himself with the world's biggest collection of business intelligence screenshots. He releases them through The Dashboard Spy Blog, where the screenshots appear with commentary. Those wishing to see just the screenshots themselves can browse the enterprise dashboard image gallery. If you have a nice screenshot of a digital dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. We're especially looking for Excel Dashboards, Xcelsius Dashboards, KPIs and metrics for specific industries, and cool business intelligence visualization techniques.
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