Product design question

Design the core dashboard experience for Command Center for a large regulated legal customer. What information should be visible on the default admin view, how would you organize adoption, access, and governance signals, and how would you make the dashboard simple enough to use regularly but trustworthy enough for operational decision-making?

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What this question tests

Tests designing an admin dashboard's default view for a regulated customer, balancing everyday usability with operational trustworthiness.

Organize the default view around the three core jobs: adoption at a glance, access and user status, and governance flags needing attention.
Lead with governance alerts requiring action, like unusual access patterns or policy violations, at the top, since a regulated legal customer needs to see risk first.
Show adoption as a simple trend, not a dense analytics panel, since admins check this regularly and need a fast read, not deep analysis.
Show access management as actionable items, pending approvals or expiring access, rather than a static user list requiring the admin to hunt for issues.
Keep the default view to a small number of cards or sections, with drill-down available for admins who need audit-level detail on demand.
Validate the design with actual admins from a regulated firm to confirm the prioritized order matches what they check first in practice.

Leads with actionable governance alerts rather than burying risk signals under a dense analytics view, matching what a regulated customer actually needs first.
Makes access management actionable, pending items, not a static list the admin has to interpret.
Keeps the default view minimal with drill-down for detail, avoiding the trap of cramming every metric onto one screen.

Burying governance risk signals below adoption metrics on the default view.
Designing a dense, information-heavy default view that admins will not check regularly.

How would you decide which governance alerts are urgent enough for the default view?
How would you test whether admins are actually acting on the alerts shown?