Dashboard Skill

How this skill behaves (read first)

This is a generative skill, and dashboards have a signature over-design trap: cramming every available metric onto one screen. As the lessons put it — "when everything is important, nothing is." The default instinct is to show all the data; a good dashboard shows the few things that answer the user's question. So this skill gates:

1. Establish who's looking and what decision they're making — that determines what belongs on the screen.
2. Apply the always-true core — organization, hierarchy, and chart-fit principles that hold for any dashboard.
3. Decide density, detail, and chart types deliberately — surface the context-dependent choices instead of defaulting to "show it all."

Then hand off to the audits — especially aesthetics (clutter/hierarchy is the make-or-break here).

Step 0 — Establish context before designing