# Tableau 10: New Interface and UX Design changes

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2016-08-09
- **Format:** Video · 6 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, formatting)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-10-new-interface-and-ux-design-changes
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/OAUrHVq39-E

I compare Tableau 9.3 and Tableau 10 side-by-side, focusing on the visual design and UX changes in the new version. I walk through the start screen, the canvas-focused workspace, and the new default colours and iconography.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 10's start screen greys out the Discover pane to draw attention to the Connect pane and reduce distraction.
- The canvas now fills the workspace immediately without needing to build a visualisation, with shelves greyed to keep focus on the canvas.
- Default colours have shifted from strong red/green to softer orange/blue, largely for accessibility and easier interpretation.
- Icons, marks elements and fonts have been refreshed, and titles are now seamlessly part of the canvas by default.

## Chapters

- 0:15 Start screen and Connect pane changes
- 1:32 Canvas-focused workspace redesign
- 2:49 New icons and default colours
- 3:29 Building a chart to compare defaults

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-10-new-interface-and-ux-design-changes

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