Numbers drawn, not typed.
On most boards a dashboard's number is text in a box, and nothing knows it is a number. Here each value is drawn by a figure made for it — an indicator, a delta, a ring or a bar against a goal, a trend from a list of points.
Cups today412
Indicator▲ 8%
DeltaProgress ring
96 of 120
Progress barTrend
Category trend chart
Each part of a figure reads a field.
A dashboard figure is shaped by a field of its object. The ring paints Sales today against Goal today; the trend paints Cups by hour, a list of pairs, each a name and a number. Correct a number on the object and every drawing of it is corrected.
SoHoCafé
Sales today2,134
Goal today3,000
Cups today412
Cups by hour7:00 48 · 8:00 61 · 9:00 57
10:00 44 · 11:00 39 · 12:00 52
10:00 44 · 11:00 39 · 12:00 52
value ← Sales today
maximum ← Goal today
maximum ← Goal today
points ← Cups by hour
Manhattan's sales are summed from its shops.
Manhattan's card holds no typed number. Its Sales today is a sum over the shops it holds, SoHo and the Upper West Side, and it is recomputed when either of them changes.
Manhattan · Sales today$4,010sum of Sales today · 2 shops
SoHo$2,134
Upper West Side$1,876
Every figure, named.
The toolbar's own names — what you pick is what this list says: three groups, 19 figures.