The Fifth Elephant 2025 Winter Edition

About the session:

This talk explores dashboard wireframes as lightweight thinking tools that enable rapid iteration before any technical implementation begins. Like Lean Startup’s “build-measure-learn” loop, but for dashboards - wireframe, review, refine, then build.

I’ll demonstrate live how we’re using LLMs to:

1. Conduct structured stakeholder interviews - Understanding what decisions need to be made and what questions need answering, not just what metrics to display
2. Generate wireframes in real-time - Converting requirements into visual layouts showing metric grouping, navigation flows, and interaction patterns - all without data or BI tools
3. Maintain synchronization - As requirements evolve, wireframes update automatically. Changes flow both ways. Nothing gets lost.

The core principle: wireframes are 100x cheaper and faster to change than dashboards. By decoupling design from implementation, we enable true iteration. Stakeholders see concrete designs in hours instead of weeks. BI teams get clear specifications instead of guesswork.

I’ll walk through a real example from initial conversation to final wireframe, showing the decision-first methodology in action.

Key takeaways:

• Practical LLM approaches for dashboard requirements gathering and design generation
• How to apply Lean principles to BI work by using wireframes
• A decision-first framework for dashboard design
• How to cut your dashboard development cycle from weeks to days

Who will benefit:

This is for:

• BI professionals tired of endless revisions and unused dashboards.
• Dashboard designers and UX designers looking to use AI to improve their work outcomes
• Anyone interested in bringing Product + UX thinking to analytics.

About myself:

Im Vikram Nayak, the Founder of ChartBoss, an applied data visualization company. I’m on a mission to make data insights easy to communicate and easy to understand.

At ChartBoss, we’re building easy-to-use AI tools for both experts and non-experts to make charts and dashboards that are super-effective.

My personal consulting work falls into 2 main tracks:

• Data Product Design: Helping product companies build data products that actually get used. Eg. Trendlyne - a stock market analytics platform with 1M+ users and Stylumia - an AI fashion consumer intelligence company.
• BI and Reporting Systems: Helping companies build out reporting systems and business visibility through a holistic combo of people + process + technology.