When working with big datasets, long tables and wide grids are staples. But leaning too much on these can lead to generic tools that are overlooked and easily replaced.
Create the ideal workspace for each collection of tasks. How you present large datasets, and what you spotlight, will have an outsized impact on how well you mirror the mindset and expectations of your customer.
The Reality
Your app revolves around big datasets, and the management of and interaction with it.
Your solution solves a common problem in a simpler way, for an under-served industry or segment.
Your customers, unaware of how your POV intersects with their goals, keep requesting spreadsheet stuff.
Common UX Issues
In filling too many low-order requests, products creep away from their speciality
All actions are crammed into one monolithic table, making nothing clear or easy
Individual views provide no clues at to what the user should be looking at
Uniform UI solutions leave no sense of what outcomes are expected or desired
Data Management Design Principles
One big dataset. Several ways of looking at it. Rather than put everything in "a single pane of glass", parcel the data out into discrete, purpose-built workspaces, like the one above. Here we are opinionatedly hiding all but a few key metrics in order to help make the next decision.
A visual pecking-order of objects and their properties clarifies a view's intent
Group overlapping tasks to bundle shared actions into distinctive workspaces
Arrange nav by user need to convey mindset, and dedicate space to key data
What are users looking for? Provide a spotlight to help them make decisions
Discovery Questions
What are they asking for? Why? How are they trying to interact with data?
What unique value does your concept create? How does that overlap with requests?
Where are you deviating from your marketing in order to meet customer requests?
Why does this particular vertical or segment value your perspective?
Showcase what your approach to data does better by underlining what makes it different.
Our work is quality. But you don't have to take our word for it.
Concise, achievable objectives. No creep. No drift. No surprises.
We check in afterward, ensuring our designs work in reality.
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