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A comment on Ask HN: Is there a better word than 'dashboard'?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a better word than 'dashboard'? by Someone on Monday November 17, 2014 @04:33PM (#8620764)
Instrument panel (from cockpit terminology; ships may have their own term, too)

If users can directly interact with it: control panel, communications center, control center.

If it is more to impress than to communicate: Christmas tree.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a better word than 'dashboard'? by trebor on Monday November 17, 2014 @04:38PM (#8620799)
> If it is more to impress than to communicate: Christmas tree.

Or "kitchen sink".

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