22-25 April 2026 
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SQLBits 2026
Design essentials for Power BI developer
Let me give a crash course on the essentials of design that everyone doing anything visual (including Power BI dashboards) with shapes (including bar charts) for people (who like nice colours) should know.
Basics about colour, basics about gestalt, basics about UX and you will hear your report readers screaming “Now I understand what I see!” with satisfaction!
Most BI people come from technical or business backgrounds, but creating an informative and user-friendly report requires not only good data models and formulas – a bit of design knowledge is also needed.
For not burning reader’s eyes with contrasting colours, not sucking them into the black hole of confusing menus and finally, not making them feel like they’re on a pop news site where all the ads compete for attention and the purpose of the page is deeply obscured.
Let me give a crash course on the essentials of design that everyone doing anything visual (including Power BI dashboards) with shapes (including rectangles aka bar charts) for people (who like nice colours and cat pics) should know.
Basics about colour, basics about gestalt, basics about UX and you will hear your report readers screaming “Now I understand what I see!” with satisfaction!
For not burning reader’s eyes with contrasting colours, not sucking them into the black hole of confusing menus and finally, not making them feel like they’re on a pop news site where all the ads compete for attention and the purpose of the page is deeply obscured.
Let me give a crash course on the essentials of design that everyone doing anything visual (including Power BI dashboards) with shapes (including rectangles aka bar charts) for people (who like nice colours and cat pics) should know.
Basics about colour, basics about gestalt, basics about UX and you will hear your report readers screaming “Now I understand what I see!” with satisfaction!