Composing a dashboard

A dashboard answers “how are we doing, and what needs me” in that order: figures first, then how they move and divide, then what to act on. Lintel’s Today dashboard is the worked example.

Lintel’s Today: a greeting and a sentence, the window button, four figures with Rent collected’s change and trend, the repairs counted by state, rent charged and collected by week beside homes by building, and two lists below.

Always, lead with a strip of three or four metrics of equal width; a strip that does not divide leaves one card alone on a row — examples/apps/lintel/dashboards.ts:11.
When a figure has a before, over (its date column) with better: the change from the period before and the trend across the window come unasked — examples/apps/lintel/dashboards.ts:17.
When the board is read by period, windows on the dashboard and over on each section they narrow — examples/apps/lintel/dashboards.ts:73.
When a figure moves over time, a chart over auto, which picks the day, week, month or quarter the window calls for — examples/apps/lintel/dashboards.ts:40.
When a total divides by a vocabulary, a breakdown at a third or half width, beside a donut of another division — examples/apps/lintel/dashboards.ts:49.
When two divisions cross, a matrix.
When there is work waiting, rows of it with a limit, two to a row — examples/apps/lintel/dashboards.ts:50.
When a number needs a sentence, a note last.

The sections are in Dashboards.