{"id":5895,"date":"2014-01-27T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T06:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fusioncharts.com\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:07:15","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-facilethings-dashboard-design-in-conversation-with-francisco-saez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioncharts.com\/blog\/behind-the-scenes-of-facilethings-dashboard-design-in-conversation-with-francisco-saez\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco S\u00e1ez Insights: BTS FacileThings Dashboard Design 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of dashboard design<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a series of interviews with Product Managers, Developers and Designers of software products with\u00a0kick-ass\u00a0information dashboards to help you get an insider\u2019s view into their making. This is the second part of the series.<\/em>\r\n\r\nSo much to do and so little time, this is a feeling which plagues all of us at some time or the other. This feeling worsens as tasks get added to our to-do list.\r\n\r\n\"David\r\n\r\nIn 2002, David Allen introduced a groundbreaking work-life management concept called Getting Things Done or GTD in his book of the same title<\/a>. The core idea behind GTD is that if we externally record our planned tasks and projects and then break them down into actionable items, it would help us focus our attention on taking actions on those tasks instead of just mulling over them.\r\n\r\nFacileThings<\/a> uses this GTD principle and marries it with technology to give us a self-management app that aims to give time back to us. The entire process of FacileThings is made up of five stages in true GTD style: We (1)\u00a0collect<\/strong>\u00a0things that command our attention, (2) process<\/strong>\u00a0what to do about them, and (3)\u00a0organize\u00a0<\/strong>the results, which we (4)\u00a0review<\/strong>\u00a0to decide what\u2019s the next thing to (5)\u00a0do<\/strong>.<\/em>\r\n\r\n\"FacileThings\r\n\r\nI recently spoke to Francisco S\u00e1ez, CEO of FacileThings, on how he went around building the FacileThings dashboard, what were his design considerations and where does he see the data visualization industry in 2014. Here are the excerpts from the interview:\r\n\r\n\"Francisco\r\n
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