Gauges are like the junk food of dashboards. Just as junk food has little nutritional value but contains too many calories, gauges donΓÇÖt contain enough data for the space they occupy on a dashboard ΓÇô little ΓÇ£nutritionalΓÇ¥ value and too many pixels.

Dashboard solutions allow an organization to visualize and monitor their data in a meaningful manner, while enabling them to make better operational and strategic decisions. But what questions should we be asking ourselves before undertaking a dashboard project?

Some insight into the process of creating our holiday infographic, some interesting facts that we werenΓÇÖt able to include, and some of favorites that didnΓÇÖt make the cut.

Check out the interesting information we weren't able to include in our infographic and let us know what you would have enjoyed seeing on it using interactive elements.

I'm convinced that if you want to bend or break the rules ΓÇö and there are some rules in information design, and they are not the product of white old men's aesthetic choices, but of how the visual brain works ΓÇö first of all you need to know them well: Study them, understand them, and apply them until they become second nature.