Top 10 Dashboards UX/UI

Mariusz Muraszko
Movade Product Design Studio
4 min readOct 3, 2018

UX Studio Movade.com

Hello, my name is Mariusz. I help to master UX / UI process, and here is my statement: the result of designer’s work is not a coincidence but a repeatable outcome that can be mastered.

Inspiration phase is often underestimated in the Design Process — and yet our ideas always contain particles of someone else creation.

#10 Clean and minimal — good for start

  • Good visibility of navigation
  • Structure that supports modules well
  • Not overloaded composition

#9 Left column oriented— interesting ideas

  • Good architecture of navigation and containers (worse with headlines)
  • Not-to-heavy left column (usable but doesn’t draw much attention)
  • Good visibility of clickable elements
  • Usable back button

#8 Analytical dashboard — when you have a lot of data

  • Breadcrumbs ftw!
  • Good structure (not overloaded with data in one view)
  • Data table (less columns / visible data changes)

#7 For products with simple lists

  • Smart use of space & user focus
  • Good information architecture
  • Nice use of color accent

#6 When you want to use common patterns

  • Classical use of left navigation and cards
  • Nice visible color for main action and important information
  • (-) Such composition supports less flows (multiple steps)

#5 Travitor Dashboard — worth checking

  • Smart use of full width layout with clear focus
  • Good visibility of clickable elements
  • Good interaction design
Travitor

#4 Horizontal scroll

  • Very good use of the top head part
  • Good AI for horizontal layout
  • (-) Problems with contrast

#3 When you need to show actions on top

  • Key actions upfront
  • Good use of icons for problem indicators
  • Showing main data directly in the card (instead of hiding it further)

#2 Clean and functional — like it should be

  • Great responsiveness
  • Visible and yet subtle key actions
  • Good information architecture

#1 Check the whole project — the Wipeout

  • Real stuff — a lot of good solutions there (in terms of usability, AI)
  • Breadcrumbs again!
  • Must have — good information architecture is a must have

Case study: https://www.behance.net/gallery/45620217/Wipeout

〰️ #1 Bonus inspiration

  • Good focus on the main content
  • CTAs are still visible
  • We support multi-structures of information

〰 ️#2 Bonus inspiration

Not exactly a Dashboard but clean and minimal style could be easily used for many Back-end UI.

In some of the projects we should try to reduce information overload. In the context of dashboards we need to consciously choose how our product will behave.

〰 ️#3 Last Bonus — Start with this freebie!

Already pumped-up to start redesigning your Dashboards? The first step can be the hardest, so I will try to help :)

Adrian Madacs decided to give away all four Dashboards source files for free.
You can download them separately from dribbble or get the full package from: Gumroad Download

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