Tag
14 posts
September 5, 2025
Mike and Tommy kick off their accessibility series with an overview of Power BI report accessibility—why it matters, what the standards are, and how to start building reports that work for everyone.
September 3, 2025
Mike and Tommy dive deep into accessibility in Power BI—methods for building accessible reports, process for adoption across teams, and practical tools like KeyTips, color contrast checkers, and Stephanie Bruno's Accessibility Checker. Part two of their accessibility series.
August 8, 2025
Mike and Tommy discuss how simplified data ingestion UIs in Microsoft Fabric can lead to unexpected issues, plus Mike previews his upcoming conference talks on report visualization and CI/CD.
July 17, 2024
Mike and Tommy cover Microsoft Fabric GitHub integration news and share practical lessons learned from working with deployment pipelines. The main discussion breaks down SQLBI’s 3-30-300 rule and how it helps teams build clearer, more usable reports.
January 19, 2024
Creativity in Power BI isn’t decoration—it’s the discipline of making intentional choices (story, layout, emphasis, and interaction) so the report communicates fast and earns trust. Ep. 286 breaks down how to stay creative while still building something consistent and scalable.
October 13, 2023
Ep. 258 is a reality check for report builders: are your visuals helping people see the insight faster, or making them work harder just to decode the chart? The crew shares practical ways to keep creativity high while keeping cognitive load low.
August 4, 2023
Episode 238 is a practical walkthrough of Power BI tooltips—why they matter, where they go wrong, and how to design them so users get answers without leaving the visual. Mike, Tommy, and Seth share patterns for tooltip pages, context-preserving visuals, and performance-friendly designs you can reuse across reports.
August 2, 2023
Episode 237 digs into chartjunk and visual clutter—how it erodes trust, hides the point of a chart, and slows down decision-making. You’ll get practical Power BI design tactics (tooltips, emphasis, and consistency) to add context without turning your report into noise.
July 19, 2023
In Ep. 233, the crew answers a mailbag question on how much detail belongs in a Power BI report—covering model grain, drillthrough patterns, and ways to keep users in flow without turning VertiPaq into a row-level warehouse.
May 31, 2023
Ep. 219 is all about Power BI’s evolving button experience—especially navigators and slicer apply/clear patterns—and how a few small UX choices can make reports easier to understand, faster to use, and harder to break by accident.
May 17, 2023
Ep. 215 dives into the March 2023 visual container upgrades—subtitle, divider, and padding—and how they unlock cleaner report layouts. The team also explores viewing PBIX reports directly from SharePoint/OneDrive and what it means for versioning and governance.
May 3, 2023
In Ep. 210, Mike, Tommy, and Seth break down a repeatable way to dissect someone else’s Power BI report—where to look first (selection, bookmarks, and filters), how to spot hidden UX logic, and when it’s smarter to refactor versus rebuild.
April 28, 2023
In Ep. 209, Mike, Tommy, and Seth explore Power BI conditional formatting end-to-end—choosing gradients vs. rules vs. icons, building measure-driven formatting with measures, and avoiding designs that confuse more than they clarify.
April 21, 2023
In Ep. 207, Mike, Tommy, and Seth break down story framing and story forming—how to define audience, intent, and the “so what” before you build visuals, so your Power BI report drives a decision instead of just displaying data.