ScienceUX weekly lab meeting showing off a simulation of crowd movements at a scientific conference
How we've started doing weekly meetings in our #ScienceUX volunteer lab: Presenting new designs to each other in a virtual scientific conference hall.
Come join the discord if you want to help improve science with better design!
discord.gg/rNjNv2Ss
Play a little game and choose the right icon for each role in science.
Play our CRediT Roles icon game/survey, and help make scientific authorship clearer and more accessible!
creditsurvey.sciux.org
#OpenScience #ScienceUX
Could use a few more participants in our study of scientific slide design. Got a sec to go through some example slides then rate them? 🙏
nimble.li/p9lxzlz9
As a bonus, you get to learn some random facts.
#scienceUX
Doctors Without Borders goes #betterposter! 🥳
Our #ScienceUX community created an evidence-based poster template to improve science communication at the MSF Pediatric conference this year.
Video explains design choices:
youtu.be/1QoYDeYu59k
If we want to improve scientific poster sessions, we have to get good at measuring them.
So I went to Europe's largest liver science conference and attempted to measure how scientists browse posters.
Findings soon. Watch the walkthrough:
youtu.be/ErTfb2plrrU
#ScienceUX #betterposter #EASL2025
Love to see this @elife.bsky.social article using short titles for the thumbnail card and also a takeaway-title for the full article.
This helps you skim & decide on thumbnails faster, and learn from the article itself sooner (if people only read the title, make the title a lesson).
#scienceUX
Screenshot of Mike Morrison guiding a workshop on presentation slide design, where someone's designed a presentation slide with a big gene sequence or DNA illustration in the middle.
Got to work with 120 Early Career Researchers on poster + presentation design at NSF EPSCoR.
Nearly exploded Google Docs with 120 simultaneous people playing presentation slide & poster design games.
After 5 years, still my favorite group!
#ScienceUX #betterposter
“We found that scientists are increasingly using writing components that reduce cognitive load and improve reader understanding”
Happy finding from an analysis of 70 years of medical publications!
#sciPub #scienceUX
Apparently, long images are OK to show complicated tables in digital journals like Research Synthesis Methods.
I'm not interested in journals that don't follow basic #UX and #ScienceUX.
🤔 "What if the problem with peer review isn't the review part of the process, but the peer aspect?
Hear me out."
In a rare showing, a published paper grabs my attention with a strong and clear hook directed to me.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...
#ScienceUX #Metascience #AcademicWriting
If we want more reproducible science, then we have to make science easier to reproduce.
Here is an early demo of a step towards that: Scalable, one-click access to re-run the LIVE code & data behind the study.
youtu.be/7AXxZ0a1ws0
#SciPub #ScienceUX
Haha I get what you mean. Remember hearing a brilliant Big Journal panel on structuring scientific metadata better and thinking “But you’re going to paywall all this nicely structured data so this doesn’t fully help”.
But I’ll take any #scienceUX win over none still and some great ideas in here!
Fantastic ideas for what scientific publishing (and reading!) would look like if it were designed to modern standards.
"User-friendly dashboards and gamification are not optional."
Really inspiring, including to those of us working on this @acochran12733.bsky.social
#scienceUX #scipublishing
Is there anyone here who started with using React component libraries but quickly swore off them with very stateful apps? Any strong feelings/tips? I might simply be interacting with hooks incorrectly, but I do think the library Im using is to blame for a lot of needless rerenders. #ScienceUX
Also a nice focus on an easy submission experience! #scienceUX
Yeah that's insane bad #scienceUX for everybody except the typesetter, I suspect. Not sure the vestigial reason for it.
Select some text in a scientific article, and get related points from OTHER papers in that papers' citation network.
It made scientists in the test study feel more curious!
Cool #scienceUX prototype from:
https://buff.ly/3UFRRmJ
OSF was a lifesaver for me (hosted #betterposter templates through 250k downloads with zero issues), so on functionality alone I still love it. But UX-wise, this might be an interesting redesign project for the #scienceUX reddit community...
What else besides the batch upload?
Cool #ScienceUX milestone. A PhD student posted their poster the ScienceUX reddit and got design suggestions from actual designers!
Big thanks to @GaspardGoupy for being the first to try actual design feedback. Hopefully the first of...
A hard lesson for anybody working in science communication: Scientists especially don't like things that feel too simple.
Here's how I work around this bias in posters, and a link to the research behind it:
▶️https://youtu.be/9RnQjmihuR0
#scienceUX
A hard lesson for anybody working in science communication: Scientists don't like things that feel too simple, even if they work better.
Here's how I work around this bias in posters, and a link to the research behind it #scienceUX:
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By modern standards for content length:
1. A single figure would make a good poster.
2. An abstract paragraph is the same length as a whole web article
3. A poster is the same length as a longform NYT article.
4. Nothing is as long a scientific article, except users' manuals
#scienceUX is hard
By modern standards for content length:
1. A single figure would make a good poster.
2. An abstract paragraph would make a good article.
3. A poster would make a very long form article, like NYT.
4. A scientific article would be a small ebook/users manual.
#scienceUX is hard
Font size is too small in many scientific journals, and it likely impacts readability
...according to this small study (1min summary vid here):
https://youtube.com/shorts/Vo_-qbrke7U
I'm posting these #scienceUX study summary vids weekly now for any hyper design nerds.
