Dashboard Design
Data Studio Colour Palettes: A Practical, Accessible Guide
A Data Studio palette isn't a list of nice colours. It's an assignment to named slots, and most of the slots aren't chart colours at all.
11 min read
The library
The Data Studio library
Practical guides to building Data Studio reports that people actually read — from the first connection to the story on the summary page.
Dashboard Design
Mobile-Friendly Data Studio Reports: What Actually Works
"Can you make the report mobile-friendly?" is three different requests, and they have three different prices. One is a rebuild.
10 min read
Dashboard Design
Images, Logos and Icons in Data Studio: The Complete Guide
Images in Data Studio split into two different things, and most of the trouble comes from not noticing. The failures are the interesting part.
8 min read
Dashboard Design
How to Design a Report Cover Page in Data Studio
Data Studio has no cover page feature, which is why most cover pages look improvised. Here's what belongs on one and the four settings that make it read as…
9 min read
Dashboard Design
How to Add a Navigation Menu to a Data Studio Report
Most people build a custom navigation bar before finding out what the built-in one does. Usually that's an afternoon spent rebuilding something worse.
9 min read
Dashboard Design
Data Studio Layout and Grid: How to Build Aligned Reports
A report that looks nearly right is almost never a taste problem. It's four numbers that were never set, and a menu two levels down.
9 min read
Dashboard Design
Data Studio Templates vs Themes: What’s the Difference?
A theme is how a report looks. A template is a whole report somebody means you to copy. The twist is that a theme can't be saved, so reusing one means maki…
6 min read
Dashboard Design
How to Build a Branded Report Theme in Data Studio (and Reuse It)
There is no such thing as a saved brand theme in Data Studio. Here's how to build one properly, and the method that does make it reusable across clients.
10 min read
Getting Started
How to Track Who Actually Uses Your Data Studio Reports
Most agencies can't say which of their dashboards anyone still opens. There is a field that fixes that, it takes four minutes, and a copied report silently…
10 min read
Data Storytelling
Dashboard Design Principles for Reports People Actually Read
Most dashboards are not badly designed, they are undesigned. The page-level decisions that separate a readable report from an accumulated one.
12 min read
Data Storytelling
Who owns the dashboards? Reporting operations for agencies
One person can really build dashboards and everyone else raises a ticket. How to spread the skill without losing sight of what clients are being shown — an…
9 min read
Data Storytelling
How to present a Data Studio report to a client
Never present by screen-sharing an unfiltered dashboard. What to do instead: the first ninety seconds, two audiences in one meeting, bad news, and the ques…
8 min read
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