Dashboard Template

Use this template when the artifact is a Chinese-language internal tool / ops / project dashboard that needs to look designed-in-Chinese, not translated.

Use When

• The user is mocking an admin panel, operations workbench, project portfolio view, or team-status console.
• The dashboard is CJK-primary — Latin and numerals serve the Chinese hierarchy, not the other way around.
• The look should be light-mode, calm, editorial-leaning (Noto Serif SC headlines, Inter numerals), with restrained status color.
• Surfaces include: greeting + KPI hero, project cards with progress rings, multi-chart analytics row, activity timeline, team-presence grid, async standup blocks.

Avoid When

• The artifact is a marketing landing for a SaaS product — use saas-landing/ instead.
• The artifact is a public-facing report meant to be read top-to-bottom like an article — use Project Brief/ or blog-post/.
• The user wants a dark observability "war-room" UI — this template is light and calm; rebuild rather than dark-mode-flip.
• The artifact is mobile-first — the layout is built around a wide desktop viewport.

Required Reading

Read this SKILL.md first. Do not read stack-dashboard-zh.html by default.

Read stack-dashboard-zh.html only when you need concrete component geometry (ring sizes, pulse-bar segment widths, tab-grid spacing, status-dot sizing) or the Chinese font-stack ordering. Extract patterns; do not copy DOM, classnames, placeholder team names, or color tokens wholesale.

Design Strategy

Before placing components, decide the dashboard's job:

• daily workbench (greeting + today's focus + KPI + team)
• project portfolio (cards with status, owners, progress)
• analytics view (charts + sparklines + bottleneck breakdown)
• activity / on-call view (timeline + heatmap + presence)

A single page can blend these, but pick a hero — the first screen should answer one primary question.

Design Structure / Visual Weight

The page is a composition of zones with deliberately different visual weight — not a uniform grid of equal cards. Before placing any component, sketch the weight tiers:

• Hero (≈ 30–35% of first screen) — greeting + 3–4 large KPI tiles with tabular numerals and a thin trend line. Dominant; sets the headline.
• Primary (asymmetric grid below hero) — project cards with progress rings + a wide analytics/chart row. Mix card widths and heights (e.g. 2-up large cards + 3-up medium cards, not a uniform 4-col grid).
• Secondary — activity timeline (chronological column) and team-presence grid. Smaller type, tighter spacing.
• Tertiary — async standup blocks, footer meta, legends, filter chips. Quiet, low contrast.

Different roles get different shapes: KPIs are large numerals in rounded tiles, project cards have progress rings + owner stacks + status dots, charts are wide with sparklines + axis labels, presence is a dot grid, activity is a column of badge-led rows. A reader should tell role from silhouette before reading a label.

Counter-example — do NOT ship this

A max-width: 1120px centered single column with a small masthead and N identical border-bottom: 1px solid rows (each row: number / title / one-line meta / tag chips / link). No hero, no rings, no charts, no asymmetric grid — every line has the same height and density. That is a CSV with CSS: it satisfies "show the data" but fails as a dashboard, because nothing has a different visual weight from anything else and the eye has nowhere to land first.

If your draft reduces to "for each item, render a row" and no zone above the list is doing more visual work (KPI hero, ring cards, chart row), stop and restart the layout — add a hero with real numerals, vary card geometry, and let at least one section break out of the column rhythm.

Layout Bias

Prefer:

• serif (Noto Serif SC) for editorial headlines, sans (PingFang / MiSans) for body, Inter for numerals
• font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums on all metric blocks
• generous rounded corners (≈ 24–28px) with soft shadows, not flat outlines
• status conveyed by small colored dots + label, not by tinting whole cards
• one or two accent colors per page, not the full status palette in every section

Avoid:

• dark hero gradients pretending to be "premium"
• emoji icons in nav or KPIs
• forcing negative letter-spacing on CJK glyphs
• screenshot-of-screenshot composition (charts that are clearly stock images)
• treating Latin labels as primary when the audience reads Chinese

Platform / Size

Desktop-first, ~ 1280–1440px design width. Cards should reflow gracefully to two columns at ~ 960px and stack on mobile. Do not pretend this is a mobile-native app shell.