24 beautifully-designed web dashboards that data geeks will love

By Chris Lake June 3rd 2013 12:02

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We live in a world of big (and little) data, and many people have to make sense of numbers as part of their job. The trouble is that there can be a lot of friction involved when mining the data.

This is where dashboards come into play: a well-designed dashboard can save huge amounts of time, helping people to quickly identify the numbers that matter, in order to make insightful observations or to compile reports.

Dashboard design is a tricky business. The challenge is to communicate the key numbers in a straightforward way, while allowing users to drill down into the specifics. It is about avoiding clutter, about catering for personalisation, and about the prioritisation of the right metrics. It’s difficult to get right, but I think many of these examples have lots of good things going for them.

I have a few ideas for web apps based around dashboards, so in part this post constitutes a kind of note to self. It is also a call for further suggestions… if you have seen other beautiful / functional / clever dashboards then do leave a comment below. And if you’re a data geek who doesn’t love some of these, then be sure to say why!

Toutapp

Lancaster Bingo Company

By Danny Amacher.

A flat design dashboard

By Chris Masterson.

Yet more flat design

by Riki Tanone.

fitbit

Patient records

By Andrew Lucas.

Sprout Social

Nektar Dashboard

By Justin Roberts.

Wufoo

Dashboard Analytics

Cranium Dashboard

By David Stewart.

Start Admin

Fox Metrics

Aquicore

Airbnb Analytics

By Martin Oberhäuser.

Kareer Dashboard

By Gabe Abadilla.

Statisti.cs Dashboard

By Derek Bender.

Supr

Wave Dashboard

Trendkite

Also by Handsome.

Chartbeat

C*Tools

WebTrends

Amsterdam

Seen any others? By all means leave a comment below…

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