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Most successful dataviz projects share an uncomfortable origin story: nobody planned for them to work. A report gets built, it lands with the right person at the right moment, they find it useful, and the team...
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There is a moment in almost every Power BI project that quietly gets treated as the finish line, and it looks like this: the visuals are in place, the filters work, the data refreshes on schedule, and someone ...
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Ten months ago, I published a post that felt like a small risk where I introduced the concept of a Power BI design system. My own, built over years of client work and promised to share it gradually, in pieces,...
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There's a pattern that plays out in almost every organisation that uses Power BI seriously. Someone opens a dashboard, they see a number that doesn't sit right, and then they spend the next twenty minutes doin...
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Every Power BI project contains a moment where a report builder makes a judgment call (usually quietly and often quickly!) about what kind of thing they are actually building.
Is this a dashboard or an explor...
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I recently sent a client a 5 minutes video. Just a side-by-side of their report before and after I redesigned one visual. That one comparison changed the entire scope of our collaboration. Here is the full st...
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If you've ever opened a Power BI report from a colleague and thought "why does this look nothing like mine"... you're not alone. Without a shared system, every report ends up being its own little design experim...
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One design habit that seems harmless in Power BI, but becomes surprisingly difficult to manage once a report grows, is using transparency as part of the actual color system, especially for backgrounds.
A common ...
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The fastest way to build the wrong dashboard is to open the dashboard tool too early.
It feels harmless at first: a blank canvas, a few charts, maybe a filter panel on the side. Progress, apparently. But this ...
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I was asked to run a one-hour workshop with a simple-sounding goal: "reduce our dashboard portfolio".
The audience was anything but simple. Around thirty people joined from more than six countries, with different roles, dif...
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Every week, we make decisions about research methods, reporting formats, chart types, dashboard structures, data models, design patterns… and we often fail to capture why we made them.
Then months later, someone asks:
“Why do we use this chart type here?”“Why are KPIs g...
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Most teams believe the hardest part of a design system is the components themselves.The tokens, the visuals, the libraries,... the things that can be drawn, named, or documented.
What usually goes unnoticed is that the failure of a dataviz design system rarely starts th...
