Using Figma to wireframe your Power BI reports

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You care about how your Power BI reports look. Sekou joins us to explore using Figma to wireframe your report design and get that look you want before doing all the hard work in Power BI Desktop!
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@SQLSekou Год назад

Thanks so much for having me on! This was a lot of fun to record!

@ianfahlman-morgan2081 Год назад

Thanks so much for the demonstration! I'll be testing this concept with my clients!!

@TableauTim Год назад

Love this!

@lolujubril 6 месяцев назад

Do you offer mentorship?

@timianalytics7150 Год назад

Guys you've really influenced my growth in recent months and this is my appreciation message. Thank you🙏

@KusoTrevor Год назад

Yup, I literally did this a few months ago for a client and presented this exact topic to my company.

@ishikajain8175 7 месяцев назад

Figma is good for wireframing but I think Mokkup is best for dashboard wireframing. I am able to create dashboard prototypes just in a few minutes, it's that very easy to use.

@SQLSekou 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for this and your comment! This is very easy to use and i never heard of it before you said something

@kasbu Год назад

Adobe XD does basically the same. From experience, note that these figma models can bring in a lot of fancy looking things when designers get excited, but it is not necessarily PBI performance friendly. Will involve some back and forth to remove and streamline things for performance, but nothing that can't be negotiated between the teams.

@jordansmith9230 Год назад

What are the performance issues?

@kasbu Год назад

@@jordansmith9230, in short - too much crap on screen - the less elements you have on canvas, the quicker the engine can render the page (e.g. instead of 4 KPI cards, add a single card like formatted table). Design teams tend to add many small elements, disclaimers, RAG notes, design lines, pop-up windows and other nice-ish looking things which may not be "Power BI" friendly. Some of my stakeholders refuse to use the filter pane as they find this to be an "advanced feature"... I've seen slow design templates - a pbix. with minimal data, minimal calculations, but the design is so heavy that this blank report is sluggish on its own.

@jordansmith9230 Год назад

@@kasbu Are you saying that the PNG file itself has a lot of weight to it? Or that the weight comes once all of the visuals are added to it in powerbi? I use figma to design all of my templates because powerbi isn't fit for purpose when i comes to basic tools for designing reports. I wish the features from something like figma were brought into powerbi. I wasn't aware of any slow down in regards to using the file as a background, and I hope that's not the case.

@mazinhousin9745 11 месяцев назад

Adobe purchased Figma, thus, XD is becoming obsolete soon, so bette rinvest your time in Figma

@venkod 8 месяцев назад

@@mazinhousin9745 the Figma purchase did not happen unfortunately due to EU regulators raising anti-competitive concerns .

@timianalytics7150 Год назад

Q. Is there a complete tutorial on the art and process of building a dashboard? I mean I want to be able to build mockups without spending hours doing trial and error

@ajaaskelainen Год назад

Fire framing is very interesting g topic. Q: are there any best practices to wireframing? I’d like to known

@In_a_state Год назад

I thought the biggest strong point of Figma is interactivity but in this video you're only only going to the extent of what's also possible in Power Point.

@SQLSekou Год назад

Cant show everything in 9 minutes!

@In_a_state Год назад

@@SQLSekou Got it, thanks!

@Crazy5exycurvy Год назад

Great video guys! Figma has been my secret weapon - Sekou's let the cat out of the bag!

@GuyOrlov Год назад

very good video but I am still using PowerPoint two reasons: Cheaper and easy re-design big negative font type issue in Figma.

@SQLSekou Год назад

Figma has a free license 😄

@Julia-ry7ie 6 месяцев назад

Same 😅

@JohnOttoKnoke Год назад

When will you guys be back on Saturdays?

@GuyInACube Год назад

We were back last Saturday, August 12th. We are on again today, August 19th!

@juanpablorvvv Год назад

I didn’t saw any vale added compared to PowerPoint 🤷🏻‍♂️

@chowardwheeler Год назад

you could literally do this faster directly in Power BI....

@SQLSekou Год назад

Think so? Let’s do a live stream and see!

@kanishk7267 Год назад

I like Figma, but I often end up just wireframing in PowerPoint. I don't know why, but I just can't quite my PPTX wireframes. I'm getting old.

@benhalicki9749 Год назад

Interesting tool, but I can see it would be very easy to over-promise and under-deliver by wire framing designs that just aren't possible in PowerBi. Personally I would prefer to wireframe directly in PowerBi so that users know exactly what they are going to get when the report is delivered. Nice tool, but it just feels like an unnecessary step in the process to me.

@joseventura6843 Год назад

Figma has help me to present beautiful presentations to anyone in case they dont have PBi..and I can make it interactive

@micahdail Год назад

My biggest complaint with this process is that if you don’t have seasoned PBI report developers running the wire framing process, you will often get mock ups that simply are not possible or require very considerable schema modification of the underlying dataset. A knowledgeable PBI report developer should be able to guide the wire framing in a way that is compatible with concepts such as dimensional modeling. Do not allow wire framing by non-PBI developers if you ultimately plan on delivering a PBI solution.

@SQLSekou Год назад

Yes definitely! Someone should understand Power BI and what is possible when using this method

@hi_vishy 23 дня назад

Very valid point

@SachiniRuwanthi-p8b 2 месяца назад

@Mahetabist 2 месяца назад

Thanks so much, it's really helped me alot.

@Splinta100 Год назад

you can make a great mock-up / wire-frame but then when the business sees report with real data they realize that they had a different question in mind and you need to change everything. doing your wire-frames with real data even if it is a sample is very important. we tried doing wire-frames a few years ago but stopped it. now we just ask the business to mock something up they want in excel and use that.

@SQLSekou Год назад

That’s where skill comes in! You don’t want to promise something to the stakeholder/client when you know it’s not possible!

@Splinta100 Год назад

@@SQLSekou it is not about what element you pick to show the business in the wireframe . All I'm saying is real data helps a lot when doing a wireframe. for example if you have a bar chart in the mock up with 4 columns and it looks great but when you get the real data you see that there are actually 20 bars for different categories and you can not read the numbers properly since everything is small. Or you have 5 kpi box's on the top of the page but when you see real data you realize that they don't actually tell you anything useful and you want to change the visuals completely.

@B1993BB Год назад

Does it also have a noticeable performance impact or is it just for prototyping purposes? In the report I could build the same appearance using shapes

@SQLSekou Год назад

This use case was for specifically for protyping and a high level overview of Figma. There are people doing far more advanced stuff with Figma than what was shown here. Also wanted to highlight the wireframing process for those who are unfamiliar. You can wireframe in multiple tools (PowerPoint, Power BI, Figma, Adobe, Canva, etc)

@Raaaaaaaandie Год назад

Yes there will be noticeable performance impacts because you can take a report that might have 50 shape and text elements that need to be loaded and turn that into loading one background element. Ive noticed amazing gains in performance by designing in figma vs natively in powerbi.

@thefamousdjx 7 месяцев назад

@@Raaaaaaaandie Nice. have you also had instances were figma design makes it slow and if so what do you think was the reason, since its always a single image no matter what you did in figma