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by stonemetal 4784 days ago
I disagree. Dashboards curate by definition. Some car dashboards display have a tachometer, some don't it depends on the car's focus. Google Analytics similarly doesn't display all available information, just that which will be useful. Dashboards always display a limited subset of available information that makes sense to the current context aka curated.

Discovering is also vacuous. The whole point of a dashboard is to convey information. Do I discover how fast I am going by looking at my car's dashboard? Do I discover my website's traffic by going to Google analytics? Sure, I wouldn't use them if I didn't get the information I need from them. So using an online content dashboard that doesn't deliver online content of some sort would be a waste of time.

Beautiful adds something because not all dashboards are beautiful.