A Product Manager’s Guide to Quick and Effective Design.

Bootstrap Dashboard

A dashboard, in many ways, is like the screen of a digital device — there are numerous activities that happen underneath the surface, but as users we are unaware of such activities and simply believe what we see.

Who knows or even cares how many system calls does it take to show the battery status on a screen? But the moment battery sign turns red, we quickly understand that if ignored for too long, the device will soon be unusable. Over time we start relying on system design.

When it comes to a B2B SaaS product, the dashboard is its lifeline as it is the primary interface that customers interact with. While a dashboard encapsulates the complexity of the underlying system, its success lies in how meaningfully it communicates KPIs to users, how reliable it is as a source of information and how it makes its customer’s work hours productive .