High performance HMI techniques and practices allow the designer to create designs and displays which help the viewer make the best decision in the shortest amount of time after interacting with the HMI.

High performance HMIs often look basic and even boring. Advocates of high performance HMI design would argue that boring is appropriate for a process that is running smoothly. The power of this design philosophy is when something does go wrong. A high performance HMI will quickly guide the user to the source of the problem through its innovative use of color and alarms.

In Ignition, you create the high performance HMIs by using components such as moving analog indicators, sparkline charts, and radar charts. Here is a comparison of a traditional HMI next to a high performance HMI.