Power BI Report

Design Guide

Prepared by

Data Maru

Business

Value

Design

Savvy

Data

Modeling

3Essentialsto build a stunning Power BI report

It is important to describe what the business problem is, how your solution solves it,

and who your target audience is.

For example,

Focus on how your solution solves

a particular business problem

Business Problem

To achieve better corporate performance and

enable the ability to take timely actions to keep

the business on track to meet goals,

management needs to get a view of the current

status, and performance relative to the annual

goals.

Business Solution

The ability to see the annual goal along with key

performance indicators and sub-indicators, and

how they are performing against targets is a

powerful way to provide insights into company

performance.

Target Audience

This is a dashboard aimed at management. It

provides a quick glance at current status and

allows managers to understand and ask the right

questions to enable them to take actions to

improve performance.

Is your Data Model in good shape?

Answer these key questions

• Should I unpivot some columns before I join this data set with

others?

• Should I merge/append this data set before I join this with

others?

• When do I use a many-many cardinality between tables?

• Should I choose Single or Both in cross filter direction?

• Should I create a new measure or a new column?

• Do I need to create a new date table?

• Should I filter some data at visual, page, report, or Power

Query level?

• Which columns or tables do I hide?

• Do I specify data categories?

Design a page before creating visuals

UI/UX Design

• Layout and whitespace

• Alignment and spacing between visuals

• Report theme and colors

• Background image

• Text size and font consistency

Design a page flow with Power BI features

[Main page]

[Tooltip]

[Drill through page]

[Key Influencers]

[Decomposition Tree]

Power BI Proficiency

• Key Influencers

• Decomposition Tree

• Drill-through

• Bookmarks

• Conditional Formatting

• Tooltips

• Filter vs Highlight

• Page Navigation

Avoid these Examples

Difficult to read labels on x-axis

Too many data labels.

Different colors in the same category Similar bubble size

Too many items & colors Difficult to see the trends/changes by weekday

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Power BI Solution

Examples

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