[awildfivreld]

I'm a software developer.

There is a chicken and the egg problem when it comes to designing these things.

I can ask "What do you want the dashboard to look like" and they'll answer "I don't know before I see the data".

Then I'll ask what data they want to see, and they'll respond "What will it look like?", or we'll spend significant time on data collection only to find they never actually want it in a dashboard after all.

By far and away the most time consuming aspect of this entire domain is to find out what users actually want to see, as they almost never have something specific enough when they approach me.

[miksumiksu]

I guess what you need is researchers, not dashboards.