Dashboard Design Brief Template

Dashboard redesigns fail when design begins before the team agrees on what the dashboard needs to accomplish. This template gives PMs and analytics leads a structured brief that captures user problems, explicit non-goals, data dependencies, and success definitions — before a single wireframe is drawn.\n\nThe Brief Items workbook tracks every user problem, design requirement, data requirement, and non-goal by status. The Dashboard Design Brief document translates the workbook into a written brief with User Jobs to Be Done, Explicit Non-Goals, and a Success Definition. The Brief Board shows designers exactly which items are in scope, out of scope, and blocked on data work.\n\nBuilt for PMs and analytics leads who want to stop building dashboards that answer the wrong question.