Microsoft Power BI: The Art of Designing Incredible Tools

Learn how art, psychology, design, data, and business acumen combine to create incredible Microsoft Power BI tools.

Created by: Sean Chandler
BI Lead @ Humana & BI Instructor on Udemy and Sweatpants BI

What Will I Learn?

• Master the principles of Gestalt design and learn how to apply smart design techniques to business intelligence reports, as well as common mistakes to avoid.
• Learn how to apply color strategically in your tools to ensure maximum readability and guide your users through the most important insights in your tools.
• Learn how to find the story and dissect datasets in order to create compelling narratives that propel business users towards insights and, ultimately, action.
• Use common business tools and built-in Power BI functionality to engineer design and navigation experiences for your users that will immerse them in your tool.
• Apply common web design techniques to business intelligence tools, transforming your creations from semi-interactive reports into complex data-driven web tools.
• Learn how to conceptualize and deliver a front-end design experience from start to finish, using a free UFO sightings dataset.

Requirements

• Basic data visualization experience is a requirement for this tool and familiarity with data modeling concepts will be extremely helpful. No DAX or Power Query experience is required for this course.

Target audience

• This course is focused specifically on Power BI users who are comfortable building data visuals like bar charts, line charts, etc. and have little difficulty modeling their data, but who struggle with designing attractive and user-friendly reports. This course is focused on teaching useful design principles, basic web navigation features, and data storytelling. Non-Power BI professionals should find many of the design techniques in this course more or less universal but the course will examine BI tool design exclusively from a Power BI perspective.
• This course is not intended for users looking to build their DAX skills or learn how to construct/customize data visuals. It will focus almost exclusively on higher-level design techniques, as this is an area that I seldom see covered in other BI trainings, which tend to focus on more specific "how do I build this?" areas. This course will focus on "how do I design this?"