Power BI Report Designer

Power Bi Desktop report design considerations

Consistency across all report pages
Brand/company design rules
Clarity and readability
How design options affect the reports performance
Planning report design for efficiency
Use design tricks to emphasise important information
Find the right balance for your design

Report design workflow

Due diligence
Avoid repeating steps
Create the design for future reports and for sharing with colleagues

Choose the right colour palette for the reports

Follow your company’s design rules
Create a colour palette to match your company’s colours
Use the colour palette for consistency
Understand how colours affect the audience
The traffic light colours (RAG) signals and symbolic
Contrast and accessibility colours

Create design elements in another application

Use PowerPoint to build Power BI design elements to:
-Improve report performance
-Get a much higher variety of design options
-Obtain consistency across report pages and reports
-Layout design elements to emphases information
-Incorporate Images, logo, and icons in the background for more flexibility and faster load speed

Create templates for efficiency and consistency

Build templates for visuals designs for efficiency and consistency
Save, distribute, and reuse templates

Themes

Build a theme for your organisation
Use company fonts and set font size
Setup the colour palette as a theme
Save, distribute, and reuse Themes

Design performance

Use the Performance Analyser to avoid slow performance from design elements