Category: Figma
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Enhancing UX with Interactive User Guides in Tableau
An effective user guide is a powerful tool when it comes to helping any user get the most out of the tools you build…
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Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Chart Design
Choosing and designing charts is a deceptively challenging aspect of data visualization. It can seem obvious when someone else made a poor design choice,…
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Fundamentals of Accessibility Design: Making Your Dashboards a Friendlier Place
“What are your accessibility design standards?” It’s a question that can catch us off guard during project discussions. But when was the last time…
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Simple Fonts: Mastering Font Essentials in Figma
Choosing the right font or combination of fonts can significantly influence the overall style and perception of your dashboards. The typeface you choose for…
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Tableau Dashboard Examples by Type
Unlock the power of data storytelling with Tableau! My path to leading a data visualization design team might seem unusual, but it’s these former…
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Streamlining Dashboards: Minimizing Chartjunk with Icon Design
Whether you use icons within or around your data visualizations, it’s crucial to be mindful of the value they add or subtract to the…
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3 Ways to Wow Stakeholders with Figma
When it comes to demonstrations, it goes without saying that you want your stakeholders to walk away “wowed.” But what is the best way…
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How to Make a Mobile Splash Page in Tableau
As creators, we can use splash pages to inform dashboard users of something that may affect their journey. In the case that your products…
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The Value in Low-Fidelity Wireframes for UX and Dashboard Designs
Low fidelity (or Lo-Fi) designs are simple sketches that outline the key elements of a dashboard. In many ways, it stands as a blueprint…
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3 Simple Ways to Improve the UX of Your Dashboards
At Playfair Data, we pride ourselves in improving the UX of dashboards to transform raw data into powerful insights. To do this, we use…
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Tips for Creating Custom Color Palettes for Visual Analytics
When thinking about how we can tell a story through data, we often view the element of color as a way to control the…
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3 Innovative Ways to Use Figma in Your Visual Analytics Projects
What does design software have to do with visual analytics software like Tableau? At Playfair Data, we approach our visual analytics projects with our…
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How to Create Better Dashboard Layout Designs with Figma
Being able to apply some basics of dashboard layout design to your visual analytics projects in Figma can bring a surprising amount of benefit. …
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The Definitive Guide to Buttons in Tableau
The Button. Seemingly simple — yet so powerful. As humans, we are well versed in buttons and have been trained to use buttons from…
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How to Design a Typographic Hierarchy in Tableau
For most Tableau authors, typography is not the first thing they think about when they develop a dashboard, let alone typographic hierarchy. Luckily, Tableau…