People are getting busier and busier every day. In a bid to do more in less time, they want to see and do things in the quickest and easiest possible way. They want to get started without having to read any help docs and manuals. They want to avoid errors and mistakes to be more efficient with their time. As such, usability has become a necessary condition for survival for business applications, both external and internal. If it’s an external application, more usable applications mean more customers, and if it’s internal, then it is a matter of employee productivity and overall buy-in to the system.
Charts can be made more usable using simple tips and techniques. This leads to quicker comprehension of the data on the chart, and also makes sure that people see and absorb everything that you are trying to convey with the chart.
In this chapter, we shall learn how to:
Convey what the chart is for, clearly and succinctly
Make charts more meaningful...