Datavizium Blog
Making BI dashboards work on a phone
Notes for analysts, BI developers, and data teams on why dashboards break on mobile, and what actually fixes it.
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July 2026
Why Your Tableau Dashboard Breaks on Mobile (and What Actually Fixes It)
Tableau auto-generates a phone layout for most dashboards now — and they still look dense and hard to read. Here's why, and what actually fixes it.
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July 2026
Power BI Mobile Layouts: What They Do Well and Where They Fall Short
Phone Layout view is a real feature, not a workaround. But it has limits that show up the moment your reports need to reach people outside the Power BI app.
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July 2026
How to Turn Any BI Dashboard Into a Mobile-Friendly Report
A tool-agnostic process for auditing a dashboard, cutting it down to what matters on a small screen, and shipping something your team will actually open on their phone.
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July 2026
Why Tables and Matrices Are the Worst Visual for a Mobile BI Dashboard
Across Power BI and Tableau communities, one visual type gets singled out as unreadable on mobile more than any other. Here's why, with sources, and what to use instead.