Dashboards as Works of Art
Dashboards have finally reached a critical mass as a distinct design pattern and method of conveying business intelligence. How do I know? When a Museum of Art prominently features its enterprise dashboard for its visitors, benefactors and board members to examine, it’s an indication that art directors believe it to be intuitive, cutting-edge and “of-the-times”.
Visit the Indianapolis Museum of Art Dashboard to see this slickly designed executive dashboard.
Here’s my thinking. Who are a museum’s biggest patrons? Fortune 1000 companies and their executives and directors. When a museum has a function and the big-wigs are mingling and discussing their cool new dashboard, the CEO will really be in their element and tell everyone how his company has been using dashboards for a while now. He’ll go on about the dashboard projects that his business units and IT departments are working on. And the CEOs that haven’t started dashboard projects yet? Well, just wait until the next morning when they march over to the CIO’s office!
Take a look a this beautiful dashboard.
As you see, the museum dashboard is a collection of interesting metrics relevant to the various constituents of a museum. (more…)
