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Explaining Enterprise Dashboard Screen Flow with Guided Wireframe Narratives

Dashboard tag: Dashboard Storyboard, Wireframes, Mockups. Enterprise dashboard designers spend a lot of time with users - first in listening to their business requirements and then getting approval for their wireframes and mockups. I was discussing the best way for a team of interaction designers to explain the flow of a proposed enterprise dashboard and was reminded of a great article on the use of Guided Wireframe Narratives over at boxes and arrows. The challenge of mocking up an enterprise dashboard is that the flow through the dashboard is never linear. That’s the beauty of the dashboard as a design pattern. Rather than a menu or wizard driven approach where the interaction designer forces a user through certain sequences, an enterprise dashboard serves as a visual smorgashboard of navigation choices. The appearance of a certain alert in a particular area will trigger a path through the application that is hard to forecast.

The article explains how to use powerpoint to add a narrative element to your wireframes. The resulting presentation looks like the following. As you go through the presentation slides, various speech bubbles provide the narration through the enterprise dashboard flows:

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Tags: UI Design, Enterprise Dashboard Design Best Practices, Wireframing, Storyboarding, Story Board

Homework: Think about the reason why enterprise dashboards are so hot right now. Here is some input from the Malik book:

The early years of the 21st century have seen a convergence of several management thoughts that further that age-old quest for theright informa-tion at the right time. The dashboard is the new face of the emerging infor-mation management field. Dashboards have become the vehicle of execution for several key initiatives being implemented among organizations world-wide. Some of those initiatives include Balanced Scorecard, Enterprise Per-formance Management (EPM), also referred to as Business or CorporatePerformance Management (BPM), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), SixSigma, and the regulatory compliances such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In hindsight, dashboarding seems to reflect the natural course of pro-gression in the quest for improved information and better decision making.Almost every organization has experienced an exponential growth in com-puting power and data volumes during the past years. This growth drives theorganizational management to create more enlightened decision-making pro-cesses in an information-rich environment. During the past decade, capabilities for data analysis and data mininghave made great strides as computing power has followed Moore’s law1ofdoubling every year.

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