Power BI Report Designer

Who is this course for?

This one day course is ideal for those looking to create an outstanding Power BI reports design based on best practice, high performance, efficiency, and high level of transparency and readability for their report audience. And for those looking to incorporate brand/company design to Power BI reports.

Prerequisites:
Attendance of the Power Bi Reporting Course or a good knowledge of how to create report visuals in Power BI Desktop

Objectives

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

Face-to-face training

Training is held in our modern, comfortable, air-conditioned suites.

Modern-spec IT, fully networked with internet access

Lunch, breaks and timing

A hot lunch is provided at local restaurants near our venues:

• Bloomsbury
• Limehouse

Courses start at 9:30am.

Please aim to be with us for 9:15am.

Browse the sample menus and view joining information (how to get to our venues).

Refreshments

Available throughout the day:

• Hot beverages
• Clean, filtered water
• Biscuits

Online training

Regular breaks throughout the day.

Learning tools

In-course handbook

Contains unit objectives, exercises and space to write notes

Reference material

Available online. 100+ pages with step-by-step instructions

24 months access to Microsoft trainers

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