# Data Dashboard

Build a dense, data-heavy screen - an analytics console or a trading terminal - with...

- Repository: https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills (3071 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-27
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill data-dashboard -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill data-dashboard -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill data-dashboard -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill data-dashboard -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills`

## Description

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.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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_MISSING`
> On `KIT_MISSING` only the skill folders were installed, which is what
> `npx skills add` does. Say so plainly, point the user at
> `npx ux-ui-agent-skills init` or 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 |

The rest: https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/data-dashboard/SKILL.md