A couple of questions to start the discussion:

How easy/hard is to port the code from jupyter to jupyterlab ?
Does anyone have critiques for the original jupyter dashboard?

Working on multiple projects that are basically glorified dashboard I have a few general insights I want to dump here.

Most dashboarding frameworks and software can be divided based on how they manage the space on the screen/paper.

Basically free, as the actual Jupiter dashboards implementation.
Places on a thin grid, such as Datadog does. Each element occupies about 20-30 "squares" of the grid. This is a compromise between flexibility for the user and a clear layout.
A limited number of square-rectangular big tiles, like Dashing and Mozaik.

Screen size

Dashboards are nearly always used at full width, often fullscreen.

I've seen a few projects try to get dashboard developed as a content for a page fit into a fullscreen layout, and it gets messy quite easily.

Developing a dashboard on a 1080p display and showing it in a 4k display is not uncommon nowadays. 4k TVs are very cheap, 4k monitors still expensive and uncommon.

A few dashboard framework just display gigantic widget on such screens and do not use all the available resolution.

Elements content

Widgets in a dashboard are useless without a title or description of sorts. The appearance and position of the title should be standardized to be easy to find. A good example is the Mozaik framework http://mozaik.herokuapp.com/

Many popular data-science graph utility output static images, and their width/height ration can be changed only in the cell code. This is an excellent reason alone to use elements of a fixed proportion, this way the user is not stuck in a loop between moving the widgets around changing their content height/width ratio.

Color

Dashboards by their nature have a lot of empty space and generally require dark low-contrast colors to not tire the eye too much.

Markdown

In a dashboard layout, modifications should be made to the markdown renderer to render the h1 and h2 elements aligned to the center.

Where to write code

I think using the new layout of jupyterlab the cell code should be written separately from the dashboard visualization. I find pointless trying to fit code in a cell that maybe just displays a two digit number.

Screen size

Elements content

Color

Markdown

Where to write code

Examples

Dashing:

Datadog:

Jupyter dashboards:

Mozaik

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