This course is not a Power BI tutorial. It is focused on visualization principles. This course was recorded in 2017. The visuals may look a little outdated, but the concepts are valid as of today.
Designing dashboards seems like a simple task, thanks to modern BI tools. In reality, designing dashboards that bring value and that people want to use is not that easy. A good dashboard must follow specific rules and design concepts.
The Power BI Dashboard Design video course:
Explains how to design beautiful dashboards that people can use every day.
Is a high-level reference guide that you can come back to later. Software updates will not impact the concepts that you learn here.
Is not just theory; it shows real examples and comparisons between great dashboards and dashboards that are poorly designed.
Can help more people than just the designers! Anyone who creates dashboards can benefit from this course. Designers will learn usability tips that many tend to underestimate.
This course is for day-to-day users of Power BI who do not use DAX but create reports by using the Power BI visuals. It is not a fit for people who have never used Power BI, and it does not expose the underlying technical mechanics of a Power BI dashboard.
The video course is divided in four parts:
First, an explanation of what a dashboard actually is…
Second, a brief introduction to the features of Power BI, as a reminder for users of the tool;
Third and most important, the design concepts. We include 15 rules to design a perfect dashboard;
Last, the chart reference. Use it to pick the right charts based on the kind of data you have to display.
The course includes several samples and resources, and additional written material to further explain the topics discussed by the teachers.
Students have access to a private discussion area where they can interact with the instructors asking questions related to the lectures and the exercises.
The last section of the course classifies the visuals available in Power BI. This classification is also displayed in a single PDF that you can download for free. You can print or display this document to support your decision in choosing the right visuals for your dashboards.
Good content overall.
There could be more example so the rules are explained better.
Also some of the rules for design by Stephen Few or Gestalt principles should be explained and covered.
One of the key missing point on the final Dashboard or PowerBI Report page was that of information overload. Limiting the number of items on the front-end makes the Dashboard easy to focus on and simple to use.
Rodrigo Palomino(May 13, 2019)
Excellent course. They keep it simple. Useful and beautiful!
Jorge Funes(Apr 26, 2019)
Great !! very usefull
Leger DJIBA(Oct 19, 2018)
It's a very nice and usefull course. Congratulation Guys !!!
Steve Wilde(Jun 21, 2018)
Overall this was good. I previously completed my first dashboard and I had already done 95% of the things listed in your 15 items. It was a good confirmation for me. I do however disagree with the donut chart. It is very useful if you're using the interactivity aspect of PBI. Especially when you're looking at something like employee levels within a company. (e.g. Staff, Senior, Manager, Sr. Manager, Director, etc.)
Yoann Jeffrey CLOMBE(May 30, 2018)
15 RULES Amazing Content, Thanks , looking forward to see you at the Montreal Power BI WORLD TOUR in November ;). LAST Part Repetition no Value , No Return on Time.
Matthew Smith(Feb 15, 2018)
Great course!
Hafiz Gafurov(Jul 6, 2017)
Good course. There is many great ideas.
Kenny McMillan(Jun 18, 2017)
Very nice course and I have already started to alter my dashboards based on the recommendations. The section on colour blindness was very helpful. Would be nice to have a section on R visuals also in the future. Very helpful handouts also contained in the course. Bravo
Walter Biffi(Jun 5, 2017)
I found the overall material interesting and appropriate but a bit pricy.
I like the approach taken by showing how to find miss used visuals and using the outline rules to refactor an existing document.
However, I think that the final result was still too crowded and difficult to read. There was still too much information to digest and not enough breathing white spaces, too clattered.
I am a consumer of your various material and I do appreciate everything you're providing to the community.
Thank you!
– Balancing density and readability is one of the challenges of a dashboard - the risk is creating too many of them.
It's certainly useful to get constructive feedback, we'll consider it in future revisions.
Thanks! Reply by SQLBI (Jun 5, 2017)