The Dashboard Effect
The Dashboard Effect
Brick Thompson, Jon Thompson, Caleb Ochs, Landon Ochs
The Hidden Complexity Behind Simple Dashboards
10 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Designing a dashboard might seem straightforward, just add charts, metrics, and a few visualizations. But the dashboards that actually help businesses make decisions often look surprisingly simple. In this episode of The Dashboard Effect, Brick and Landon talk about why the most effective dashboards are usually the simplest to read, and the hardest to build. Behind a clean dashboard is often a lot of complex data modeling, business rules, and engineering work that makes the information accur...