Dashboard Literacy: Designing dashboards people actually understand by

Dashboards are often seen as a technical output. In reality, they are something else: a way to explain information to people so they can make decisions.

In this session, I will introduce dashboard literacy: the skill of designing dashboards that people can understand correctly, quickly, and with confidence.

Instead of focusing on tools or technology, the session looks at:

💡 how people read dashboards in practice
💡 where misunderstandings start, even with “correct” data
💡 how design choices influence trust and interpretation
💡 why accessibility and context matter more than we often think

The talk is interactive and built around real examples. Together we will review several visuals, what do they tell us, where starts the confusion.

The focus will be on how dashboards can better support decisions, when they are designed with people in mind.