My thoughts on the #betterposter design: I now like it. Yes, it does cost a lot of space to put a huge callout, but it is easy to get the main takeouts of the study, which is what most people read anyway. I also weirdly love how it forces me to only put key points in it. Nobody scans the QR code.

Stop Making Bad Research Posters (opinion) New research suggests a better way.

I am reliant on using templates out of accessibility needs so I have not employed the #betterposter design. The linked piece below argues for Complete Sentence Design instead.

What do you all use?

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

My betterposter from ESA

Big believer that posters are better than talks at conferences. After presentating my first #BetterPoster at #ESA2025, that has only been reinforced.

The classic example #betterposter image

If you haven't seen the #betterposter videos, you should check them out.

1) youtu.be/1RwJbhkCA58?...

2) youtu.be/SYk29tnxASs?...

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

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

Better Scientific Poster Hosted on the Open Science Framework

Maybe a single A4 with the title in #BetterPoster fashion?

osf.io/ef53g/

We have a hideously-ugly 3D printed prototype! 🎉

Major update on our quest to create an #OpenHardware people counter to measure & improve how scientists forage for information in poster sessions.

Prettier, better device to follow. All designs/code on GitHub.
youtu.be/7RgjXVU8XGU

#betterposter

Maybe interesting on this topic is this vid by Mike Morrison, who is advocating for a design called #betterposter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYk2...

My primary goal with #betterposter is to help you learn something from every poster (instead of only 3/100), even though you only spend 4-7 seconds with most posters.

What one thing do you want most people to learn? You can do anything with your 4 seconds except clickbait them.

Which then comes to what I think is the fundamental reason people struggle with #betterposter - do you navigate the reader to conclusions before anything else? That's just now how we do science... We build to the conclusion...

Making statements with section headings on your conference poster A new paper by Wolfe and colleagues (in press) provide a new suggestion for improving your poster. Do not use generic section headings like...

🆕 Research suggests a conference poster format that outperforms BOTH the "journal article on a wall" and #betterposter formats.

The “Complete assertion headings” poster format!

🤔

Yeah, they should have workshopped the name a little more.

1/2

I approve the #betterposter layout. :)
Where these patients all treated identically?
Is the 2/3 ratio of responses to be expected when designing these kind of surveys?

Just ran one of my favourite workshops in our research education & development program (it has lots of memes, which may or may not have to do with its favourite status) on conferencing - always give a shout out to #betterposter in it & was happy to find @mikemorrison.bsky.social is here on Bluesky!

#betterPoster but also make it #betterArticle

TIL about #betterposter work on scientific posters. Immediately adopting this for my seniors presenting their thesis work at a poster session.

A novel take on #betterposter at #adpd2025 - turn your preclinical experimentation into an AI generated comic strip! Truly novel scicomms approach from this Croatian team! 🧀

Ready to kick off #SBSM2025Seattle with this #betterposter in the Wednesday night session! #personality #cognition #PNI #psycsky #geronsky

anyone have pictures of their recent poster using the #betterposter design? specifically related to eco evo or env sci? (looking for some examples to show future students!)

This is super helpful insight thanks Trevor. I could probably build a hall of fame with everybody who’s won a poster award with a #betterposter (at least those that tweeted it).

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! A big shout-out to @mikemorrison.bsky.social, @fabiocrameri.ch @s-ink.org for the #betterposter idea and design—it made preparing my #AGU24 poster a breeze and definitely caught a few people's eyes.

Hi!👋

I made that silly, viral YouTube cartoon that helped 250,000 of you redesign your research poster.

#betterposter
v1 t.co/wyXhiP5CKl
v2 t.co/q1g4SsSrlS

I use science & design to improve your experience with scientific articles, posters, publishing — and beyond!🧑‍🚀

Mission:
youtu.be/WBjhxjWDiHw

Here are 4 design strategies to make your next conference poster more accessible and engaging.
#MedEd #FOAMed #BetterPoster
youtu.be/Ur7fZ-6SENc

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?

Frustrated by the format of conference posters? So much great content buried behind bad design.

Here are 4 design strategies to help improve the poster for accessibility and engagement.

youtu.be/Ur7fZ-6SENc #BetterPoster #VisualAbstract #MedEd

Poster preparation in full swing for the Global Evidence Summit in Prague next week... so many posters!

#betterposter #evidencesynthesis #GES2024

A simple way to assess conference posters shows you can do better than the “wall of text” A new paper by Khadka and colleagues has two interesting results. The first interesting result mentioned in the title of the article is a r...

New scoring method has promise for evaluating conference posters fast: betterposters.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-si...

Also suggests #BetterPoster format rates better than "wall of text" traditional posters. @mikemorrison.bsky.social

The #BetterPoster approach is the only system of poster design that I've seen that:
- you can use with no design experience
- you can teach others to use with relatively consistent results
- produces a coherent poster in the majority of cases

youtu.be/SYk29tnxASs?...

Fixing academic posters: the #BetterPoster approach How can we make academic posters clear, concise, and quick without sacrificing information?

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Incidentally, points 2 + 3 in this thread add up to be @mikemorrison.bsky.social's #BetterPoster design. Why didn't that catch on???

Here's how you can be flexible with Mike's templates and recommendations: astrobites.org/2020/02/28/f...