Layout Designer
Plan a report page on an even grid: pick a layout, place visuals, and get a wireframe with sample visuals, every visual’s exact position, and a designed background image to use in Power BI or refine in Figma. No AI needed.
Page and spacing
The same logic as an alignment guide: one margin around the page, one gap between visuals, and every width and height worked out so the edges line up.
Page areas
Header contents
Title
Cards
Slicers
Sizes are capped so everything fits: the title keeps the room it needs, and the logo, cards and slicers share the rest. The logo sits on the left with the title after it. Cards, then slicers, line up on the right. Everything is centered top to bottom in the header. Click a header card or slicer in Step 2 to name it.
Look
Colors for the background design and the sample visuals. Take them from a theme or pick your own, then adjust any of them.
Layout and visuals
Answer a few questions to get suggested layouts, or start from one of the layouts below. Then click any visual to change it, or an empty cell to add one. Visuals can span several columns and rows, and columns and rows can be any size.
Suggest a layout (3-30-300: list your visuals, get layouts sized for them)
A good report page answers three questions in order. 3 seconds: how are we doing? (headline KPIs top left, big numbers, status against target). 30 seconds: where and why? (trend, bar charts, maps, heatmaps, filters). 300 seconds: which records? (details on demand: a formatted table, or a drill-through page so this page stays clean).
Build it row by row (each row with its own visuals and widths)
Each row splits the full width its own way. Type a height in px to fix a row (the others share what’s left). Click a visual on the page to change its type or title, or to split it into smaller boxes (a cluster of cards); empty cells become visuals here.
Column widths and row heights
Type a size in px to fix a column or row: it keeps that size and the others share what’s left. Empty the box (or ×) to let it resize. Or drag the handles between columns and rows on the page. Margin and gap stay the same; sizes snap to twelfths (hold Shift for any size).
Wireframe and files
Share the wireframe, and use the background image and positions in Power BI Desktop.
Wireframe with sample visuals
Background image
In Power BI Desktop: Format page > Canvas background > Image, Image fit: Fit, Transparency 0%. Then turn off each visual’s own background so the cards show through. The PNG is the page size you set in Step 1. PNG at 2× is twice that, for extra sharpness.
PowerPoint
Three slides at the page’s size: the layout as editable shapes (header, logo, title, cards and labels you can move, resize and recolor, with your shadow), the wireframe with sample visuals, and the background image. Good for design reviews and sign-off.
Into Figma
- Copy for Figma, then in Figma select a page and press Ctrl+V. The drawing arrives as one frame of editable shapes, with layers named Page, Header, Side-panel and Card-<visual>. Your logo and header image come along as images.
- Refine it there (shapes, icons, gradients). Shadows come through as SVG filters; if one doesn’t, add a Drop shadow effect with the same X, Y, Blur, Spread, color and opacity as in Step 2. Hide the sample visuals layer before exporting the background.
- Export the background frame as PNG at 1× (the page size) and set it as the canvas background in Power BI Desktop, as above.
Positions (Format pane > General > Properties: Size and Position)
Rename any visual in the first column: the new name goes into the wireframe, the PowerPoint and Figma layers, and the positions you copy.
Inner X, Y, width and height: where to put a visual so it stays inside its card, clear of the rounded corners. Use them when the visual keeps its own background or border; with the visual’s background off, the outer position works too.