Dashboard Grid Layout Update

This was Joshua's favorite update of the year, and he made the case better than the release notes do. The win is not fitting twelve things in a row - it is finally being able to size a tile to its job. Under the six-column grid a single scorecard metric had to eat a third of the dashboard, while a trailing-twelve-week bar chart got compressed until it was unreadable. Tiles were too big for one number and too small for a real trend line.

What he actually wants is a dashboard you can read in the five minutes before a weekly meeting: three to ten pulse metrics you check often enough to build an intuition, a trailing bar graph, maybe a pie chart, all above the fold on a laptop. Twelve columns gets him closer.

The strategic problem does not go away, and he was first to say so. A dashboard should have one job - one action, not "give me a 360-degree view of my business," which produces something so overwhelming nobody knows where to look. More flexibility makes a glanceable dashboard easier to build. It also makes a monstrosity easier to build. Just because you can does not mean you should.