Once Again, with Style: Understanding and Supporting Partial Reuse in Dashboard Authoring
For dashboard creators, this work addresses the labor-intensive task of formatting and layout by proposing partial reuse, though it is an incremental contribution based on a small-scale study.
This work explores how partial reuse of pre-existing dashboards can support the design process, particularly for presentation-oriented tasks like formatting and layout. Through user-centered design with 10 professionals, they developed ReDash, a design probe for reusing style and layout from multiple sources, and present findings on reuse needs and challenges.
Presentation-oriented tasks including formatting and layout design are critical but often neglected aspects of dashboard authoring given their labor intensive nature. In this work, we follow a user-centered design approach to explore ways that partial reuse of pre-existing dashboards may support the dashboard design process. Based on collective feedback from 10 professional dashboard creators, we contribute: (a) findings from a formative study characterizing dashboard reuse needs and challenges; and (b) reflections and opportunities from a concept validation study with ReDash, a design probe for partial reuse of dashboard presentation features (style and layout) from multiple sources.