Design dashboard to fixed resolution?

[josh]

Edit: We’ve released the Scalable Dashboards feature which accomodates this request.

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@Shai_Dotan

Can you please give a though on that?

At the moment, the recommendation is still to design a dashboard for each unique device…or for devices that have a similar aspect ratio or size, you can sometimes adjust the base tile size or use the scaling feature of your browser to use the same dashboard across multiple devices:

@josh

As noted in this post , if the devices are really close in size sometimes you can adjust the tile size to a custom size that makes the tiles scale just right to layout the same on both devices.

The last approach that some people use is to use the scaling feature native to your browser. For example, in Fully Kiosk Browser (which is commonly used on Fire Tablets), you can use the ‘Initial Scale’ setting to scale things up and down to reuse a dashboard with the same ratio - there are trade-offs with this approach though.

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@Shai_Dotan

I want my dashboard to be shown the same in any platform . Tablet HD8 , android TV’s , PC , Mobile phones… I don’t want to create a separate dashboard for each one of those. Would be great to have single dashboard that will look the same everywhere…

I’ve noted the request. That being said, there’s tradeoffs with each approach. For devices that have a similar size and aspect ratio (like an 8" tablet and 10" tablet), the idea of scaling the same dashboard between them works well… but with the difference between something like a TV and mobile phone –where the size, aspect ratio, and interaction method are different– simply scaling things up or down won’t always result in the best experience. So depending on the end-goal, designing dashboards for each unique device is likely still going to be a recommendation.

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Also note that clever dashboard design can sometimes be used to take advantage of the reflowing nature of dashboards. For example, the dashboard I use day-to-day on my mobile phone reflowed just fine on the new Galaxy Fold (a demo unit from a conference):