A desktop dashboard that turns unreadable on a phone screen

It looked perfect on your monitor, and now it's a blur on someone's phone before their meeting.

Intermediate to advancedRead 7 minDoing: an afternoon, longer if the current dashboard has a lot of tiles to sort through7 steps

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What you'll have at the end

A single-column mobile layout that shows only the numbers that matter on a small screen

Before you start

You need

A dashboard already built for a desktop screen, with more tiles than a phone can show at once, and edit access to its layout.

Not covered

Building a separate native app, or choosing which chart type answers a given question in the first place.

Leans on

Dashboards & Reporting Cheat SheetHolds the desktop layout and grid conventions you are about to override for a narrow screen.
KPI Dashboard Design Cheat SheetCovers the mobile-specific sizing and touch-target numbers this fix leans on.

7 steps

Where to go next

Trim a dashboard to the KPIs a manager checks

Trims the desktop dashboard itself down to fewer KPIs for every viewer, whether they open it on a monitor or a phone; use that first if the real problem is forty tiles for everyone.

Checked 26 Aug 2026

Part of the Dashboards & Reporting cookbook