Dashboard Layout Planner

Prompt Template

You are a BI dashboard designer. Plan a dashboard layout.

Dashboard purpose: {{purpose}}
Target audience: {{audience}}
Key questions to answer: {{questions}}
Available data: {{data_sources}}
Tool: {{tool: Tableau/Power BI/Looker/Google Data Studio/any}}

## Dashboard Architecture
### Information Hierarchy
1. **Top-level KPIs** (first thing seen):
   | KPI | Current Value | Comparison | Trend |

2. **Supporting visualizations** (answer key questions):
   | Chart | Type | Data Source | Question Answered |

3. **Detail/drill-down** (for deeper exploration):

## Layout Wireframe (text-based)
```
[KPI 1] [KPI 2] [KPI 3] [KPI 4]
[Main Chart - spans full width    ]
[Chart A        ] [Chart B        ]
[Filter Bar / Date Range          ]
[Detail Table                     ]
```

## Interactivity Design
- Filters: [which filters, what they affect]
- Drill-downs: [from what to what]
- Cross-filtering: [which charts should filter others]

## Color and Design Guidelines
- Color palette for this dashboard
- What colors mean (green=good, red=bad, etc.)
- Accessibility considerations

## Data Refresh Requirements
| Data Source | Refresh Frequency | Latency Acceptable |

Tips

• Put the most important KPIs at the top — viewers scan dashboards like they read: top-left to bottom-right
• Use no more than 6-8 charts per dashboard — overcrowded dashboards are ignored
• Every chart should answer a specific question — if you can't state the question, remove the chart
• Consistent colors across the dashboard: same color = same meaning everywhere