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Planning Story Design for User Experience and Performance

<div id="content"><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><p tabindex="0">In this lesson, we’ll explore how story design and the choices we make when building stories in SAP Analytics Cloud impact on the stories' performance. We'll look at strategies you can use to plan and build your stories for best performance.</p><p tabindex="0">Watch this short video to find out more.</p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_hy1sypg8"></div></div></div></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div tabindex="0"><h3>Summary</h3></div><p tabindex="0">This course focuses on designing stories using best practices for performance, we look at story design, data loading, and scripting. Planning ahead is always better than troubleshooting later!</p><ol><li tabindex="0"><strong>Understand</strong> the users' requirements. <ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">How do they plan to use the story?</li><li tabindex="0">How do they currently use similar stories?</li><li tabindex="0">What data do they really need?</li><li tabindex="0">How do they want to navigate within the story and data?</li></ul></li><li tabindex="0"><strong>Plan</strong> the story design and obtain feedback.<p tabindex="0">Create a mockup of the proposed story design and the widgets and settings that you want to use. Obtain feedback from the users on where they require a quick loading story and in what circumstances are they willing to wait for data to load. Use an iterative approach to planning.</p></li><li tabindex="0"><strong>Build</strong> the story. <p tabindex="0">Use SAP Analytics Cloud story design best practices and guidelines to create the story, taking into account data loading and scripting best practice.</p></li></ol></div></div></div>

Story Design Impact on Performance

Managing Performance in SAP Analytics Cloud

<div><div>Learn how to effectively create stories for analyzing sales data by understanding user requirements, conducting interviews, and designing interactive dashboards. Utilize a design first approach for efficient and user friendly storytelling.<br><br># This description was auto-generated #</div></div>

Exploring Story Design Strategies

You have been asked to create a story for a team who want to easily view and analyze sales data. It would be easy to simply jump in and create a story based on your assumptions of what is needed. Instead of this approach, a strategy where you plan before you build will allow you to create stories that will suit the user's requirements. Let's take a look at how you can approach story creation using this strategy. You might think that they simply need a spreadsheet where they can filter the sales data in order to focus on a particular data point. The big question? Is this what is required for the user to gain the insights they need from the story? Running interviews with the users, asking questions, and taking time to listen to their responses will allow you to fully understand the requirement. There are many questions that you can ask, but some of the key questions include the ones you can see here. Once you review the answers to the questions, you will have a better understanding of their requirements. Do they need a monitoring dashboard that is completely flexible and dynamic to identify important changes and trends in the data? Would a planning dashboard better suit their needs? Along with monitoring key performance indicators, do they need a table where they can insert data into their model and charts to visualize the data. Would a data action to copy required data into the table be needed? Or will a reporting dashboard work best for the team? Like any business report, it is relatively static and manually prepared before a meeting, includes business insights, and has a relatively predefined workflow through the dashboard for presenting during a meeting. Once you have compiled the information and drawn the necessary insights to decide what you will need to build, it's time to design it. When designing, think about how the user will interact with the story. Using an iterative approach to story design means that you can collaborate with the team to validate the design and obtain feedback. Think of the story overview. What information do they need to see immediately when they open the story? How can this be displayed in a simple yet effective manner? How do they need to filter the data? From the data displayed on initial load, where will the user benefit from the ability to filter and zoom in on data? If needed, you can build a story where the user can show data on a very granular level using the selected filter values. This keeps the amount of data easy to consume. The use of a mock-ups allows you to react to feedback and quickly adjust the design. Sketch it out to start, then perhaps create a slide to show a simplified version of the story. Once you have decided on a design that meets the user's requirements, it's time to build the story. When you build the story, don't forget about the SAP Analytics Cloud guidelines for best practice in story design. Creating stories using a design first approach takes longer at the beginning, but it will save you time in the long run. Even more importantly, it will create delighted users. A well-designed story also has to perform. So while building the story in the system, you need to ensure that you define appropriate story loading optimization settings and write script code that can be processed efficiently.