If you have gone shopping for a web application recently, you would have noticed how a majority of them talk about the all-conquering dashboard they have while trying to lure you. And not without good reason. A dashboard is your handle to everything you have hired that app to do, and a good dashboard an easy-to-grip one.
What makes a dashboard good, you ask? A whole bunch of things, and then some more. But fundamentally, users want their dashboards to be clean, provide context like targets and benchmarks and be customizable. And in this post, we will take you through 5 web apps whose dashboards we find to be highly inspiring.
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We recently redesigned our Careers page. The thing is data visualization is evolving at is fastest pace ever, and so are we. And to keep evolving, we need the smartest people we can find to come work with us. So a careers page that sums up our vision, the everyday challenges we work on and our culture, and does it all in a oh-my-god-I-am-getting-goosebumps way was a only natural first step.
But before we got to that, we wanted to get our inspiration sorted out. We wanted to get some goosebumps ourselves. We went hunting on the big monstrous World Wide Web, and boy, inspiration we did find. We had to impose a deadline so we could come back to the world and actually start working on our own Careers page.
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