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SSRS Reports & HCIHow to build the perfect dashboard
Nicola Pressi
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Speaker
• Working for Berner SPA as SQL e .NET developer
• Build Report and Dashboard with SSRS for the
Management Team
• Passionate of SQL stack
• I don’t miss any conference, specially SQL
Saturday!
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Agenda
HCI and Usability Concepts Guidelines
DashBoards Guidelines & Building process
Demo
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HCI and Usability- What they are
Concepts Human–computer interaction (HCI)
researches interfaces between users and computer
Usability is the ease of use of: Software Application Website Report
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HCI and Usability- Why we bother in Reports?
Every report has to be designed, so…(CASE WHEN Usability=True
THEN ‘Awesome’
ELSE ‘Horrible’
END) AS Quality
+ Time on Usability = + Report Quality
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
Grouping Alignment Font Color White Space Consistency
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
Grouping Logically together Physically
together We can use blocks to divide and create groups Contrast and Color can also be effective! White space is not waste space
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
Alignment Align related components Right alignment is good, but not always Scan on aligned text is very easy Gaps between columns should not be too large
Can be “guided” with colors and lines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
Font Can be use to emphasize elements…but no too
much! Sans-Serifs for Text (Readable), Serifs can be
used only for Headings 1-2 Fonts Max 2-3 Sizes Max Long line are boring (max 55 char) AVOID UPPERCASE
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
Color 3-5 Max Color + Backgrounds Must be consistency between them Palette can be effective Be aware also to cultural aspects Text color must be choose in relation to the
background
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
Color Bright text on dark background
Background: dark colors Text: bright non-saturated color
Dark text on bright background Background: bright non-saturated color Text: dark colors, avoiding blue
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
White Space Creates contrast Separate Structure Highlight
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HCI and Usability- Rules and Guidelines
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HCI and Usability- Extra Guidelines
Flexible Graphically consistent, Researchable
Intuitive Info displayed, Reading guideline
Consistent Internally Externally
Visual Consistency Only main Info in the Dashboards Minimize the number of Info
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Dashboards- What it is
Concept Easy to read user interfaces Instant Decisional objects KPI - key performance indicators Show graphical presentation of the current status
and historical trends
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Dashboards- Building process
Being a complex element you need to plan the building process If Dashboard needs to be generated periodically
for many recipients a good building process is mandatory!
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Dashboards- Building process, Step #1 Data
Think of all the data you need Complete list is mandatory! Complete but ASAP ( As SMALL As Possibile)
Include in the data the calculated fields! Less is done in SSRS, fastest is the rendering
Use Store Procedure, not code in SSRS Optimization aspects
There’s no magic number for Datasets
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Dashboards- Building process, Step #2 Design
Decide Structure KPIs Graphics Info available Export Format
Decide Design Colors (all of them) Fonts
…and then build!
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Let’s mix all together!- HCI, Usability and….Dashboards?!
Complex Reports Large Many elements A lot of Info
We need a lot of help to build them well!
We need Usability!
We need its guidelines!
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Dashboards- Lasts Tips
Debug Always and continue debug in SSRS and Excel Debug for colors Debug for alignment
Alignment is tricky
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Demo - KPI
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Demo – KPI and Graphs
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Demo – KPI and Graphs
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Resources
HCI http://uxmyths.com/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/
Dashboards http://www.sqljason.com/2013/05/a-sample-ssrs-dashbo
ard-and-some-tips.html http://www.dundas.com/gallery/sample-dashboards/
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Q&A
Domande?
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