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How good are your reports? A design checklist.

September 18, 2012 By Bernie Leave a Comment
Another stinker of a dashboard. Copyright Bernie Smith 2012

The Brilliant Dashboards Checklist: A systematic approach to assessing your dashboard You may be trying to work out why your current reports aren’t working properly or wondering if you missed anything on your newly created masterpiece. This design checklist encourages you to consider each element of your design and to score it if you are [...]

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Filed Under: How To Tagged With: analysis, checklist, dashboard, design, improve, report, review

A quick way to make horrific-looking, unreadable reports.

August 31, 2011 By Bernie Leave a Comment
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What’s the quickest way of making your report look rubbish and/or be unreadable? It’s simple, design it for one delivery format (A4 printed page, plasma, PowerPoint, Blackberry etc.) and then put in on another delivery medium. You know the symptoms, an Excel table pasted into a PowerPoint slide, a PDF that you can’t read on [...]

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Filed Under: Design Tagged With: dashboard, design, format, medium, report

Smooth bottoms and dashboard design

August 30, 2011 By Bernie Leave a Comment
Laptop underside

Most people don’t look at the bottom of their laptop. If they do then they will see one of two things: If it’s a Apple Mac the bottom with be smooth and (with the latest ones) completely featureless apart from four rounded rubber feet. If it’s a PC it will have little hatches, a Microsoft [...]

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Filed Under: Design Tagged With: clarity, dashboard, design, minimalism, report, simplicity

Do You Work for an Idiot?

July 9, 2011 By James Lawther 3 Comments
Scarey man with accordion

Here is a process improvement idea for you. It is called “poke yoke”. I am told that that is Japanese for “making things easy to get right and difficult to get wrong”. It is a rather grand name for what my old boss used to call “idiot proofing”. Let me give you an example: think [...]

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Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: clarity, customer, measures, poke yoke, presentation, report, simplicity, understanding

Too many reports? A great tip…

February 28, 2011 By Bernie 1 Comment
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A friend of mine recently mentioned her brilliant tip for finding out how many people read the reports that you send out. She decided to password protect the regular report that she sent out to over 300 people. Just two people requested the password. If you have a sneaking suspicion that people aren’t reading the [...]

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Filed Under: Tip Tagged With: excess, overload, password, report, reports

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