How do mobile dashboards differ from other reporting capabil

How do mobile dashboards differ from other reporting capabilities? What are the benefits and challenges in using mobile dashboards?

Solution

Mobile is a different form factor than the bigger screens of workstations and laptops.

For UI like dashboards, it is required to convey a large amount of data clearly and mobiles having a small screen, this poses a great challenge.

Hence, it is vital that the information that is most crucial is shown first. Hence, the information needs to be condensed and prioritized.

There are a lot of ways to do this. First being prioritizing the information. Only show the most important information on the first screen. This also opens up an opportunity to personalise the content based on user\'s needs. Hence, each user\'s first dashboard screen on their mobiles can be slightly different.

Mobiles also allow to make use of widgets to make the UI more pleasing and legible.

Also, different new standards of mobile UI have imerged that can be used to make the content more legible and to convey more information using less.