The Power BI is an interactive data visualization software product developed by Microsoft with a primary focus on business intelligence. Power BI enables users to drill down into their data to gain deeper insights and make more informed decisions. This data is usually displayed in reports and dashboards.

The following tips below are what we can use to design a better dashboard;

1. Consider your audience

The first thing which must take place when designing a dashboard is the consideration of the audience, whereby you need to know the information your audience will need to improve their business decisions. When designing our dashboard, we also need to know the device the audience will be viewing the dashboard from, is it from a desktop or tablet, putting this in place helps to know how to do a proper arrangement of our dashboard design.

     2. Use the right visualization for the data

When producing your visualization, you must make it easier to read and interpret. You must also ensure to avoid the use of different varieties of visualization in order to make it look simple, so as to pass the right message to the audience. The use of appropriate title headers, labels must be used, to make it easier for the audience to read.

   3. Avoid over-complicating the dashboard

Your dashboard must paint a single picture. You must avoid the use of scroll bars, your audience must be able to glance through your dashboard at once. The dashboard shouldn’t be too overcomplicated, you can remove any non-essential thing present on the dashboard.

  4. The page layout

You must always provide a layout for your dashboard, so your contents can be well placed. The contents on the dashboard can be placed in a left to the right manner, whereby the most important information is placed at the top.

  5. Use Tooltips

The tooltip is a very good function to add to a dashboard. It makes the reader grab the most important information they need about the dashboard and as well allows them to drill down more information with just a click.

  6. Use bookmarks

Using bookmarks is very good to maintain a conservative design while the user still has as much information needed. The bookmarks are useful for hiding visualizations.

  7. Use a full-screen mode

The full-screen mode is very useful for presenting to the audience, with this it helps to cover the dashboard on a wider view, which also helps to prevent distractions.

  8. Use filters and slicers

The use of filters and slicers needs to be encouraged in a report. This helps to improve the look and ease of use of the report.

The use of a theme in a report will definitely make your report more solid. A theme includes colors, background, fonts e.t.c.

  10. Page navigation

We can as well provide page navigation for our report. You can, for example, add another view, something like tabbed page navigation which allows users to navigate through the landing page to the detailed report pages.