Data Dashboard
Build a dense, data-heavy screen - an analytics console or a trading terminal - with...
Install
npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill data-dashboard -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills3.1k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 8d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,458 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Build a dense, data-heavy screen - an analytics console or a trading terminal - with real charts drawn from tokens: candlestick, volume, depth, stacked area, waterfall, scatter, correlation matrix, donut, gauge, sparklines, heatmaps and order books. Use when the request is a dashboard, terminal, monitoring view, data console, or any screen whose job is to show many numbers at once. Covers the layout sequence, the SVG geometry, the accessibility contract per chart type, and the contrast traps that only appear in dark mode.
Skill: Data dashboard
Step 0: is the kit here? This skill reads files from the kit. Check once:
ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSINGOnKIT_MISSINGonly the skill folders were installed, which is whatnpx skills adddoes. Say so plainly, point the user atnpx ux-ui-agent-skills initor the plugin install, and stop. Do not guess the contents of a file you could not open.
A dashboard is the hardest screen to keep honest: it is dense, it is mostly
non-text, and almost every default makes it worse. This is the recipe that
produced ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../examples/showcase/ and ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../examples/terminal/, both of which pass every
gate in both themes.
1. Decide the brief before drawing anything
Answer these in one line each, or /grill-me them out of the user:
- Who reads this, and what decision do they make from it? A revenue console for an operator and a trading desk for a dealer look nothing alike.
- What is the one number that leads? A dashboard without a lead is a wall.
- What is the update cadence? Hourly figures get a "last run" line. Live figures get a tape and a timestamp per row.
- How dense is honest? A terminal earns 12 panels. A weekly report does not.
2. Layout sequence, not a grid of equal cards
Four equal stat cards is the single loudest tell that nobody designed this. Compose in bands, each a different shape:
| Band | Content | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hero metric at 3x body size + its own chart, spanning most of the width | The eye lands once |
| 2 | Two or three secondary figures, stacked or narrow | Quiet by construction |
| 3 | Three different chart shapes side by side (donut, ranked bars, sparklines) | Variety reads as intent |
| 4 | A table that really sorts, plus a feed or log | Detail after summary |
| 5 | A footer line that ends the page | A page must end on purpose |
