While creating a dashboard, care should be taken so that the dashboard is clean and easy to understand. The following practices can be followed
- Design a dashboard for a specific Screen resolution. Discuss with your user community and decide on a screen resolution that will cater to all the user's
- Design a Screen layout which makes the navigation on the screen natural and easy.
- Avoid using complex calculations in the dashboard. Move such calculations to the data source.
- Use muted colors. So that focus is on the dashboard not on the color.
- Create a template and include all the layout related attributes on this template. Use this template to develop dashboards.
Tableau development should follow the Agile methodology.
Traditional methodology or waterfall model, worked in sequential order – Feasibility study, Requirements, Design, Testing, Deployment, and support. This method though good for complex systems, considered to be time-consuming in answering business questions at a rapid pace.
Agile methodology on the other hand facilitated the rapid development of the application. The development team worked closely with the business users and helped in faster delivery of the application.