# Metric Display Standards. Best practices for presenting numbers… by Tim Sheiner | Salesforce Design | Medium

<https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/metric-display-standards-54736533c81>

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## What Jamie wrote

Designing dashboards and presenting quantitative data is critically important, particularly when those displays are used to provide feedback to humans operating in an environment.

I love this simple rule he puts forward.

> Therefore, the best metric experience
> - shows users the latest value,
> - how it has been trending,
> - and enables them to take actions directly from the display itself.

Get that right, and you should be spot on.

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