Dashboard Evaluator Using Compliance Scoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Dashboard designers face challenges in creating effective designs due to complex rules related to user-centricity, data visualization, and dashboard design principles, leading to long development times and ineffective designs.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for evaluating dashboard designs using a set of best practice rules with weight values based on importance, implemented through a processor and memory device with a knowledge base module and evaluation engine to determine compliance scores and provide feedback for improvement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If dashboard designers manually follow complex design principles and rules, then design effectiveness may improve, but development time increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign effectivenessVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The dashboard design system performs self-evaluation by automatically checking its own design against stored best practice rules. The evaluation engine assesses the dashboard layout, visualizations, and metrics against compliance criteria without requiring external manual review, thereby reducing development time while maintaining design effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides automated feedback to designers by evaluating dashboard compliance with best practice rules and returning results that indicate areas for improvement. This feedback mechanism allows designers to quickly adjust their work based on objective compliance measurements, improving design effectiveness without significant time investment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If comprehensive best practice rules are applied to evaluate dashboard design, then design quality improves, but evaluation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign qualityVSAvoidevaluation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The evaluation system is divided into distinct modules: a knowledge base module that stores best practice rules, an evaluation engine that executes the assessment, and a results module that presents compliance feedback. This segmentation allows comprehensive evaluation of design quality while managing complexity through modular architecture, where each module handles specific aspects of the evaluation process independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8595173B2Dashboard evaluator
Publication Date: 2013.11.26 SAP IRELAND LTD
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AI summary

A dashboard evaluator is disclosed. The dashboard evaluator evaluates a dashboard design for its effectiveness in providing the information. The dashboard evaluator determines a compliance score to indicate a level of compliance with dashboard design principles. The design principles may be tailored to a specific purpose and/or user.