Tuesday, March 16, 2010

whoever said, "only C users need dashboards" was wrong!!

(C user = casul user - someone who is typically in the senior management cadre and personally uses software applications occassionly. most often has an assistant doing the tasks for them).

I am no 'C' user.
I am a regular employee within a user experience team, in the role of defining user interface concepts for a product. The requirements of these could come from different functional areas; result of some customer complaints; technical enhancements; user needs etc. However each of this source is stored in a DIFFERENT location and format. NONE of them talk to each other.

I am desperate to have a dashboard. At the least something like an iGoogle that allows me to PULL information from these different sources to ONE page. As a 'designer' it would be extremely helpful for me to see all of these information placed together - to infer from them; SYNTHESISE them and come up with a rounded/holistic design proposal.

> enabling design thinking demands having 'infrastructure' in place to work efficiently...and spend quality time doing 'core' tasks.

1 comment:

  1. You could achieve that by an excel also. Nothing fancy but could serve your purpose as long as the excel is structured

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