I recently logged into the dashboard for my email list management app and noticed that the chart of my subscriber count over time suffered from several common design problems that made it unnecessarily hard to read and potentially misleading. In particular, the quantitative and time scales were less than ideal.
Check out this short (8-minute) video of me fixing these problems step-by-step:
BTW...
Nordics and Central Europe friends! I'll be delivering an in-person workshop in your part of the world in Tallinn, Estonia on Sep10-13. If you're interested in taking my Practical Charts and/or Practical Dashboards course, you can register for the workshop on the following page, hosted by my Estonian partner, Dmitrij Zatuchin . Note that early-bird registration prices end on Aug. 15.