Representing asset expiration and rating in a single dashboard
We're presently going through introducing a new concept into an existing customer facing dashboard. At present customers are used to navigating their assets by using a site-wide "rating". This is safety based and represented using Red/Orange/Green traffic light colours.
The new requirement is to also surface asset expiration in the same screen. There's a few different schools of thought internally on how's best to do this.
Our Existing UI showing simply the safety of the assets on a user account. As is quite clear the separate bins add up to the total. They provide navigation to the asset management page pre-filtered to the safety level clicked.
Contributing to totals The first suggestion internally is to have an extra row supplementing our pre-existing safety categorisation showing the same safety figures, but adjusted for expiration. These new figures are not just the numbers of safe/warning/dangerous assets that are now expired. The new red section is an amalgamation of both Dangerous & Expired. The new orange section is an amalgamation of Warning & Expiring. The new green section being all Safe assets less those that are expired or expiring. The further 2 new boxes representing the expiring assets without any reference to their safety rating.
Separate Concerns Keep the 2 facets to an asset as separate figures and allow diving into either of them separately without any combined figures.
Hybrid Display both facets to an asset as equal but separate concerns but make clear the assets that are problematic because of safety of expiration.
There is a strong internal desire to provide a "quick view" of assets that have problems. Though I'm very conscious of the fact that existing users will have a learning curve and potentially different figures than they're used to. I've intentionally kept mine and the product team's opinions out of this post in the interest of a fair representation of all ideas.