Martynas Jočys

Bookmarks are a very powerful feature in Power BI which allows for wide functionality, and sparkling creativity. Yet, most developers still don't use its full potential. While Bookmarks are celebrated by report design gurus for making nice-looking pop-up menus, they have more to offer. During this session I will overview the most awesome use cases for bookmarks I've seen so far and will have a demo on how to create them: you'll see them solving complex filters, making layouts more user friendly and of course - popping up menus which are easy to maintain (I mean it). However, the point of this session is not to give a step-by-step guide - by understanding the details on how bookmarks work you will be able to incorporate them into your reports more seamlessly and invent use cases by yourself!

Most BI people come from technical or business backgrounds, but creating an informative and user-friendly report requires not only good data models and formulas – a bit of design knowledge is also needed. For not burning reader’s eyes with contrasting colours, not sucking them into the black hole of confusing menus and finally, not making them feel like they’re on a pop news site where all the ads compete for attention and the purpose of the page is deeply obscured. Let me give a crash course on the essentials of design that everyone doing anything visual (including Power BI dashboards) with shapes (including rectangles aka bar charts) for people (who like nice colours and cat pics) should know. Basics about colour, basics about gestalt, basics about UX and you will hear your report readers screaming “Now I understand what I see!” with satisfaction!