ADVANCED NAVIGATION : STYLISING A MENU WITH TABLEAU

Navigation design is the discipline of creating, analyzing and implementing ways for users to navigate through a dashboard or an app. It plays an integral role in how users interact with and use your dashboards. The aspect of efficient navigation has a great impact on setting positive user experience. It is how your user can get from one section to other sections in the least frustrating way possible.

As we all know, one of the basic features of dashboard usability is thoughtfully created navigation.These days navigation menus are not limited to navigation bars . It’s more than that and in this blogpost, we will try to create a simple navigation (rounded bar) within Tableau. Before we deep dive to this blogpost, I would also recommend you to go through this amazing article “Usability: Navigation is More Important Than Search” by , Gerry McGovern

The idea of this blogpost came from the Luke’s earlier post “Creating a Horizontal Parameter Selector with Rounded Borders”. If you haven’t checked it , I would recommend you read this blogpost first and come back here so that you can learn two different ways for creating a Rounded navigation Button.

I would also like to thank Joshua Milligan for Dynamic Annotations Post and Chris Love for Jedi level hack for improving the Calculation.