Power BI Report Design Guide - .NET Framework
Transcript of Power BI Report Design Guide - .NET Framework
Power BI Report
Design Guide
Prepared by
Data Maru
Business
Value
Design
Savvy
Data
Modeling
3Essentialsto build a stunning Power BI report
It is important to describe what the business problem is, how your solution solves it,
and who your target audience is.
For example,
Focus on how your solution solves
a particular business problem
Business Problem
To achieve better corporate performance and
enable the ability to take timely actions to keep
the business on track to meet goals,
management needs to get a view of the current
status, and performance relative to the annual
goals.
Business Solution
The ability to see the annual goal along with key
performance indicators and sub-indicators, and
how they are performing against targets is a
powerful way to provide insights into company
performance.
Target Audience
This is a dashboard aimed at management. It
provides a quick glance at current status and
allows managers to understand and ask the right
questions to enable them to take actions to
improve performance.
Is your Data Model in good shape?
Answer these key questions
• Should I unpivot some columns before I join this data set with
others?
• Should I merge/append this data set before I join this with
others?
• When do I use a many-many cardinality between tables?
• Should I choose Single or Both in cross filter direction?
• Should I create a new measure or a new column?
• Do I need to create a new date table?
• Should I filter some data at visual, page, report, or Power
Query level?
• Which columns or tables do I hide?
• Do I specify data categories?
Design a page before creating visuals
UI/UX Design
• Layout and whitespace
• Alignment and spacing between visuals
• Report theme and colors
• Background image
• Text size and font consistency
Design a page flow with Power BI features
[Main page]
[Tooltip]
[Drill through page]
[Key Influencers]
[Decomposition Tree]
Power BI Proficiency
• Key Influencers
• Decomposition Tree
• Drill-through
• Bookmarks
• Conditional Formatting
• Tooltips
• Filter vs Highlight
• Page Navigation
Avoid these Examples
Difficult to read labels on x-axis
Too many data labels.
Different colors in the same category Similar bubble size
Too many items & colors Difficult to see the trends/changes by weekday
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Power BI Solution
Examples
More questions?