Over the past few years, dashboards have become ubiquitous. Thanks to the “democratization of data visualization tools,” everyone is suddenly an analyst. With drag-and-drop interfaces and endless templates, it’s never been easier to pull data into a dashboard and share it with colleagues or executives. The problem? Most dashboards are bad. They don’t follow dashboard design best practices. You’ve probably seen them shared on LinkedIn: messy color schemes, overcrowded with charts, crammed into tiny panels, or spread across dozens of pages. They look neat, but they don’t communicate. At best, they confuse. At worst, they actively mislead.