How to create a better research poster in less time (

Template here: osf.io/ef53g/ | Examples on Twitter: / mikemorrison
Every field in science uses the same, old, wall-of-text poster design. If we can improve the knowledge transfer efficiency of that design even by a little bit, it could have massive ripple effects on all of science.
Also, poster sessions tend to suck, so here's my pitch to make them more efficient AND more fun with a new approach to designing scientific posters/academic posters that is both more usable, and easier to create!
MY TWITTER (tag me in me your poster selfies!!):
/ mikemorrison
PORTRAIT LAYOUT (alpha version)...
osf.io/g6xsm/
WAIT NEVERMIND: Ignore what I said about colors. Instead, use colors that trigger the right emotions to fit your punchline, when possible. Failing that, use colors that complement/repeat colors from a key graphic/image. Try to do something above defaulting to your school's bg color.
FAQ: HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS VIDEO?
I started in (Vyond.com), which made concepting super fast and easy. Then I threw everything on a green background and did extra stuff in Adobe After Effects. If you want to make a video like this for yourself, I cannot recommend starting in Vyond highly enough. You can get started with ZERO video experience, and be having fun & making stuff within 5 minutes. It's like a gateway drug for animating.
FAQ: BUT IT'S MISSING [WHATEVER] THING I NEED
Add it! As in the video, I was aiming for a minimal base, with nothing to take away. There's plenty of stuff that can be added. Got an idea? Modify it and let me know how it goes! This is not the only way to do a poster well, nor is it perfect in all cases. Just one suggestion that, I think, is at least a step in the right direction from the wall of text. You can take it way further. It's more important that you experiment with lots of ideas than 'decide' on one layout.
FAQ: BUT MY FIELD IS VISUAL. I NEED A WALL OF VISUALS AND TEXT
In my experience, visual fields (e.g., org chem, robotics, planetary science) can actually go even more minimalist than this standard #betterposter layout. If that's you, think of your poster as a very brief visual story, that can be absorbed from 6 feet away. See how few images & sentences you can use to communicate your key methods and results.
THANKS
Special thanks to my fellow IO Psychologist friend Jacob Bradburn ( / jacobbradburnio ) for martyring his otherwise-perfectly-fine traditional academic poster for the cause....and also for letting me steal his "Woodstock for geeks" joke.
Also thanks to Sergio M at MSU ( / powersergg_ ) for picking the intro music!

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

2021 UPDATE: The sequel to this cartoon has new layouts, research, and principles. If you loved this, or even if you didn't, there's probably something you'll like in the #betterposter Generation 2 cartoon: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYrOY2yqo910idU P.S. - Thank you all for being open to improving your posters!

[@maximilianv.w.955]

pin this?

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

@@maximilianv.w.955 Good call! Done!

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[@nashforrest9175]

@Bowen Darius Instablaster =)

[@bowendarius5084]

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[@icrisologo]

Why traditional academic posters are bad 0:00-11:35 What is a good design 11:35-12:08 The redesign 12:08-16:14 Examples 16:14-17:28 Conclusion 17:28-19:31

[@Alvinstone111]

Glad you broke it down like that. The first 10 minutes I'm just waiting for the video to get to the point. Still, the wait was worth it. This is a lovely simple solution to creating a poster in a hurry.

[@nepenthesbaphomet]

It felt like one of those this product solves your problems. Watch for ever!

[@marystep630]

Thank YOU!!!

[@nickyhotwheeler]

Thanks you saved me even more time!! Now we need him to make a video on how to make an efficient video explaining how to make an even more efficient video on how to make a better science poster.

[@nicolekendrick5088]

Bless you

[@jasminezamora4182]

My PI would kill me if I used this but I love the concept lol

[@bnrenn]

some national conferences (at least in my field -- healthcare/clinical psychology) are moving to this!

[@catelarocque3539]

In my field (medical research/epidemiology/nursing) the conferences actually prohibit any format other than the traditional! It's maddening.

[@RoseyVamp]

As someone about to go into my first poster session next week this is MASSIVELY HELPFUL! I was so nervous about presenting but now I know how I should be making my poster and I feel like I’m making it WITH A PURPOSE!! I’ll definitely be watching the updated video but so far I’m feeling a lot better about this

[@user-un1wm5mf6m]

My goodness - what a better way to make a poster and get your message across. I'm sold! Will always use this approach. Thanks, Ian

[@edwardruthazer1849]

Thank you for putting this out there. This video was a bit slow to get to the point.... Ironic. But still nicely done. The ideas are good, especially the QR code, but the Twitter approach to posters seems to go too far. Here's what I tell my students: 1. Always end your poster with simple, clear bullet point conclusions in a super-large font that can be read from 5 feet away. I think that captures the main spirit of your video. 2. When presenting your poster ALWAYS be respectful of your audience's time. Your presentation should take no more than 3 min to go through without questions. Use the extra time for those who might have questions.

[@zzzLITTzzz]

Edward Ruthazer as a designer who vaguely knew this problem existed, I watched the whole video from start to finish and enjoyed knowing all of the back story. Plus, I imagined hearing this on NPR over the radio. Anyway, the video was super entertaining and it gave a lot of credibility to the creator and the content and problem.

[@Abubobbledo]

Edward Ruthazer I think the reason it is slow to get to the point was that it has to explain what the problem is and why it’s a problem. To me it might be slightly over simplified but the final design is basically sound. There’s always room for originality but it’s premise is spot on.

[@alexandrehuat773]

i put bullet points everywhere. readable bullet points.

[@mirkosadi3350]

Just love this poster design. You are teaching to focus on essentials and good organization of content instead of just stuffing as much information as possible into one poster. Great video.

[@gina1979]

This was terrific. I'm moving forward with many of the concepts in this video! Thank you for making this incredible video!

[@joqinaau9629]

I LOVE this. I come from a communications background and am about to present my first clinical psych poster at a conference (of my own research, rather than someone else's) - I always wondered why posters were so user-unfriendly. I'm going to try a version of this, perhaps not as bold and brave as these here, but I will take a step into what is a more engaging and memorable sharing space using your tips. Thank you!

[@erynpblock]

WHOA! I am blown away by how useful and important this video is. Thank you so much! Definitely going to use it for my next poster.

[@alisonl9586]

@MikeMorrison. THANK YOU so much for your generosity of sharing, and to those of your friends and colleagues who have done the same. For years I have hated Poster sessions, hated making them, hated doing them, bored to death looking at walls and walls of fine print and indecipherable graphs. A total waste of time - might as just write the bloody paper and go through the journal submission process. Posters do have their place - and someone has FINALLY developed a way to make Posters shine - reflect the important work presented, while not pretending it's anything other than..... a Poster.

[@acapellascience]

This is wonderful. Ten years from now we’re going to look back and marvel at how long old the status quo lasted. As a side note, thank you for taking the immense amount of time it took to make this. I’m sure you got a lot of “shouldn’t you be focusing on your research?”

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Haha I definitely got some weird looks from people when I tried to explain where I was spending my time. Happily, most people in my PhD program are used to me doing weird projects that somehow pay off, so they were pretty supportive. But that "shouldn't you be focusing on your research?" worry was a constant nagging self-accusation in my mind throughout this entire process. Now that the video blew up and people are starting to adopt the new design and succeed with it, that voice has finally gone quiet.

[@askquestionstrythings]

Why am I surprised, but not really surprised, to find @acapellascience in the comments. Now I'm thinking we need a song about making better conference posters.

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

@@askquestionstrythings Oh man. I also vote for that being a thing!

[@BigToinE976]

Already 4 years in, how widely is it spread ? I'm an european PhD student in electrical engineering, ending its 3rd year, I only attended to one online conf due to covid, and I just discovered this new design !

[@arpuneetkaur]

This was wonderful, every bit of it is as motivating and entertaining as it could be! God bless Mike Morrison. Thank you so much!

[@robertdavis1783]

As someone who has both presented at and been an attendee at many poster sessions in several unrelated fields, this idea is great. Your description of how it feels to attempt to find interesting posters is spot on. All the times I have been wandering around I inevitably end up getting stuck at a handful of posters, and only realize later I'm out of time and can't see anything else. Plus standing there silently reading while the presenter tries not to be awkward is like pulling teeth. If my PI is willing, I think I'll be trying out something akin to this the next time I do a poster.

[@SomosSimon]

Thank you! The humor and honesty of this video was so refreshing got me excited about doing a better job on the poster I procrastinated and need to produce this weekend.

[@daniellesweitzer7801]

This is a really awesome and entertaining video. Thank you for making it and answering all my frustrations towards scientific posters. My next one is going to be wayyyyyy better because of this.

[@fhaist]

Simply brilliant. You've changed how I will present my posters from here on out. A well spent year in creating this. Thank you!

[@blackfamilyscholar1006]

Thanks so much Mike! I'm presenting a poster for the first time at the National Conference on Family Relations and they linked your video as a reference. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to watch it. Definitely helped with the anxiety behind creating a boring poster that no one will read. Thanks again

[@janinejones6146]

This is so brilliant!!! Revolutionary! Sharing with all of my students! eternally grateful to you!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@tomgallacher6968]

disappointed none of the QRs are for Rick Astley, a perfect opportunity missed.

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Tom Gallacher I was SO tempted.

[@BuzzyHelps]

Yah, but the presenter is LEEEEEEEROY JEnkins! Tip o the hat there!

[@magm3079]

This is a great suggestion and as a PI of studies, I will definitely encourage this format moving forward!

[@soufianekun11]

1 week to the Conference Me : watching this video.

[@Antonio-lt1sp]

LOL

[@meriyame91]

same here

[@rahmahl5762]

Same😂

[@emftechEE]

Same day of e-poster presentation here, I really want to do it well, first time ever and only at 19 years old, I'm super nervous...

[@tracyhancock9942]

Same! First conference in 6 days, virtual e-poster presentation of Thesis! Freaking out a little bit!

[@nhivuong4617]

My Professor replied to me when I shared this video to her: "Thanks for sharing.....saw this earlier, knew it made ripples... I wondered what impact it would have on poster sessions. I was at a poster session on Saturday evening--I saw several QR codes, but definitely none going so far as this in design. I heartily agree that titles should be informative, and I'd love to see those improve! However I disagree with this person's assertion about what the "point" is of attending a session. I hear he's disappointed that he isn't "learning" 60 things in 60 minutes. Doesn't sound like critical examination to me, just grazing, which misses a lot of the value of a poster session (or oral presentation)...both form of pre-publication presentations allow constructive feedback to be exchanged in both directions. Deep communication and extended dialogue between small numbers of people at small numbers of posters is often highly productive. When we feel overwhelmed, the abstract book is helpful. I usually scan it, pick about five posters and feel very satisfied to get to some of those! I wish you all happy poster making and I hope you enjoy your poster session. Enjoy those few powerful conversations!"

[@saber1epee0]

I think that's a fair reply, and the deep conversations are Absolutely inportant! But if I can't understand in 10 seconds what your major conclusion is (or even area of research sometimes!), I'm just as likely to miss an important opportunity to connect as I am to stop by. I almost never stop at any posters nowadays until I've "grazed" each one for that reason- nothing worse than your friend telling you later about a poster you missed that could have been perfect for you to find.

[@FantasticBaby1224]

This is a BRILLIANT idea. MAJOR props to you for this!

[@sfrancisco8Z401QH]

Thank you for putting in the work and taking the time to explain the principles and necessity for effective design. I appreciate you building the case for why the science poster needs to be reconfigured. I'll definitely use it and promoted it with my institution and faculty.

[@mariagraziaerausquinruiz7157]

I am designing my dissertation poster using the "traditional way" and I found out this while looking for tips for designing a poster. This is a simple and creative idea! I want to apply it but I am worried it will fell out the marking criteria of my university. Either way, I think this idea has lots of potential for future academia, at least I hope so.

[@robertjv]

Can you tell me how it went afterwards, I'm doing my poster right now

[@user-hb9uz5ij9f]

How did your poster go? 🙏 @@robertjv

[@negar3635]

One of the best videos I've ever seen, thank u for sharing!

[@arikushimoto2898]

OMG, I can't believe I watched the entire 20 minutes of this video - you nailed it, so insightful, and more people should watch this. I can not agree more as a designer.

[@artnoveau577]

"Maybe the research in your field isn't really important - and I'm in Psychology, so I get that..." As a fellow psychologist I can agree whole heartedly.

[@yogaavecmoi]

This is honestly so amazing, preparing for a poster and this is giving me such comfort :)

[@ticklfightr1988]

This video just created a soul-level exhale for me, THANK YOU! I'm excited & scared to do this with my poster!

[@michaeladragna]

I used this for a poster at the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - the conference organizers sent out this video ahead of time and I'd estimate that 20% of the posters used this format. MUCH better for strolling through and the layout itself elicited many comments - thanks!!

[@FionaC1]

A wise psych professor told me 25 years ago “you can never have too few words on a poster” and I’ve always stuck to that. So I’ve been using minimal words plus QR codes for a while now, it’s definitely the way to go. I hardly ever stop at a wall-of-text poster and can never believe that people really still do that! I like this idea but have two fears: now everyone uses the same template and it becomes hard to stand out (possible); and the other I have already seen on your RTs, which is people are making the side bars too big (splitting into thirds instead of narrow bands at the side) - this seems to defeat the purpose and makes it look like a wall-of-text with engineering issues 😉 The practice definitely is long overdue a shake-up though and if this even gets people thinking twice about their design your job is done.

[@DerAua]

Before this approach no one stood out and you learnt nothing from walking past these posters in the limited time you had.

[@petterikaristo9528]

Mike, I enjoyed this video so much! I can fully relate to your experience of feeling completely lost during poster sessions and getting nothing out of them. I think it is related to the fact that unlike some have suggested, I have never prepared for the session very well. I feel I can't really read through 100 abstracts and make any meaningful selection based on them. Even reading through the non-informative general jargon titles (like the ones I make myself) is difficult. I'm sure some people can do it, perhaps the more experienced, or the better ;) But for me and you and many others, the solutions seems to be wandering around the posters and look for something cool. And for us, your solution is really cool! I doubt I will ever see too many too simplified posters, so that I would start demanding for more details. But perhaps that will happen. I'm waiting for it! :)

[@prittloxx]

I just want to thank you so much for this amazing video! This was incredibly helpful, I searched this after a few panic attacks with creating my first research poster. Thank you so so so much!

[@amanda-hibiscus]

This is fantastic, I didn't want to watch the whole 20-minute video but I couldn't help it once I started. It makes SO MUCH SENSE. I just made (and submitted, sadly) my first poster and although I did a pretty decent job of avoiding the wall of text, I definitely see a missed opportunity to make the finding the biggest part rather than a "headline." Thanks for working so hard on this! I hope it starts to catch on!

[@Ella-lk2se]

Adding a QR code is undoubtedly a revolution! I always make my slides with as few words as possible. I am going to do my poster presentation in July and I gonna adopt your ideas. I will let you know how it works. Thanks for all these brilliant ideas!

[@fuelingaphd]

This video was so helpful! And at the same time intriguing to watch, not a single boring second

[@savvydk]

this is brilliant, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DO THIS!!!

[@jordanmakesmaps]

This is awesome. The build up and explanation of the problem and it's potential magnitude is definitely worth the watch. Good job!

[@taniam6047]

Love the valid information provided thanks for bringing attention about this issue. I completely feel like you get my experience both as a presenter and session attendee.

[@adamchandler3165]

This was extremely helpful. I am using one of the powerpoint templates from the link you provided. A sincere thank you for sharing this great information!

[@lalasanchez4551]

I am doing a science poster for school for the first time ever, I have been searching for something that works for me and this is the best thing I could have found on internet

[@splinter-l]

I am howling at this. 😂😂 You’re sooo funny and talk so fast, but total sense. Love it. Thank you. From a conference organiser who was asked to submit a poster. “What, it’s next week!!” 😱 💩

[@tomsalinasDDS]

Bravo, Mike! Thank goodness for your insight,...will add my suggestions to our component organizations!

[@carolynfisher7721]

Honestly, this is genius. I teach others how to do poster design... am going to try it with them.

[@aidenmeek5447]

This is awesome. I like how you talked about how poster sessions really feel, cause you nailed it. I'll give this poster layout a try.

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Haha trust me I know how it feels to have your poster completely ignored. This video wouldn't exist if I hadn't suffered first haha. And check out the newer layouts in the PART 2 video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYrOY2yqo910idU&lc=UgwbKVUXSVDwCcDMjM94AaABAg&ab_channel=MikeMorrison%2CPhD

[@christinegoulet3661]

Thank you for investing time in solving this important issue! Will use the template in the future. Way to go!!!

[@droneyourworld8697]

Mike thanks a lot for your video (TIME, EFFORT, MATERIALS ETC), it really helps A LOT!

[@tenzinnyima8091]

Our professor shared your video to us just few days before we head to conference. This video was really insightful, wish we could move towards this change in design.

[@lailabonner8596]

Love your new poster presentation design!

[@monirahoque315]

This is so mind-blowing! I'm definitely using this for my next conference. Thanks so much!

[@michelledemers710]

Very well done! Excellent job in taking practical experiences and applying them in a way that actually makes sense. I am definitely going to give this a shot on my next poster.

[@prateekgupta3936]

I am going to use this design as well. Thanks for explaining the psyche of attendees and presenters. I enjoyed watching this video a lot. This is the most useful academic video. It breaks down the current mayhem in the scientific community where scientists are producing work without caring enough about their duty to society.

[@bibhushakarki2928]

First time trying to create a poster presentation. Will do exactly as this video! Thank you!

[@HealingIfe]

This is genius! Thank you for taking the time to create this!

[@Aquitanio]

This... freaking blew my mind. Thank you very much.

[@jeremykiszka4147]

I absolutely love this.... seriously, great job!!!!!

[@domgiuliano974]

Great year, great output, totally worth it Mike.

[@magpiepicapica1427]

This helped me A LOT! Thank you so much for that video!

[@TheFeldhamster]

OMG, mind = blown! I typically had one of the few unicorn posters and therefore sucked up most people - so I was one of the few people having a good poster experience. But I never thought about the overall session and how this is detrimental to the scientific process in general. And that I was the one person who sucked up those 30mins of people's time because they would flock to me because my poster looked like a nice infographic instead of a boring wall of text. Doh! Really, this year of your life was *very well spent*! Congrats and thank you! I have already forwarded this to our whole institute.

[@erichessonline]

As someone who's helped managed, coordinate, and run multiple poster sessions in my field, I can confirm the first half of this video accurately describes the poster session experience 😂 No doubt, many academics will hate this design. Some supervisors probably won't even approve it (because it's too clear, too to-the-point and too comprehensible not just to scientists, but if done well, the general public too). Scientists/researchers need a MASSIVE push towards more effective and efficient communication, and I think this is a step in the right direction! Here's to the next generation of scientists who exercise just as much rigor in their work as they do in their communication - well done!

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Well said, Erich! First, some updates to this design here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYrOY2yqo910idUsi=mhzCnBFTIreM65sk And more recent (2024), more nerdy updates on the broader challenge of changing posters here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4abeYCLbaZmpNUsi=W4EVbBUzHG3dhflC But I think you're right that researchers need a massive push towards rigorous communication design. I got a little lucky with this video helping to destabilize posters a little when it went viral, but the effect is waning. Any ideas for how we could create that massive push?

[@erichessonline]

@@MikeMorrisonPhD Thanks for the update! I'm using the updated designs for a poster on some asteroid research I've been doing for the past year...can't wait to see how it turns out! For the massive push, I think you'd need to get this in front of as many undergrads and grad students as possible earlier in their careers. To help with that, I'm passing your most recent content along to a student volunteer network I help coordinate...hopefully they take it on and rock their next poster session! (Getting it into student-run, science clubs/networks is probably a lot easier/faster than encouraging a faculty to switch paradigms). A lot of grad students I know mimic their supervisors, which I think is part of what's keeping the wall-of-text design alive (which you actually mentioned in the video haha). To me, it seems easier to simply train the next generation to do better than to convince seasoned supervisors to switch things up. I know some faculty who would love this, but they're the ones already interested in science communication anyways haha I think we'll see rapid progress if today's undergrads/grads are shown more effective, evidence-based communication tactics and begin to model them to their students in the future! 🙂

[@duggsteary]

Thank you MIke! As a researcher with a graphic design background, I dreaded every poster session. When I suggested change I was laughed at from tradition and routine. Thanks for sharing, I look forward to seeing the impact these posters have!

[@ariannarenteria3170]

Me one day before my poster presentation .... watches this video

[@layna9065]

Literally me, my presentation is at 9:45 am and it’s currently 21:58 the night before

[@ariannarenteria3170]

layna May the odds be in your favor 🙏

[@layna9065]

Arianna Renteria thank you so so much

[@latoyarose7609]

Same here

[@fawstinekessy8042]

I have a poster presentation in 3 days and I don’t know if i should do this

[@iplsaturday9498]

I love this, and will be looking at it in class with my engineering students.

[@JonMetro100]

A video all about making your relevant point more obvious that takes 15 minutes to make its most relevant point.

[@pauldmcardle]

This is so cool... why didn't I see this before spending hours on a poster and travelling halfway across the world to stand next to it on my own for hours!? Thanks for doing this.

[@brayand.murgasportilla6097]

Great video and ideas ! I'll use it for my next poster. Thank you so much :)

[@FredGunn]

Brilliant. This should be a poster at a design conference. So much to learn, presented in such a real and interesting manner. Love your use os humour and language too.

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Thank you! Be sure to check out the sequel here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYrOY2yqo910idUsi=-jhLuPb9ekSM5BM0

[@oriweiss32]

Dear Mike, thank you for these brilliant tips. I will implement it in my project.

[@RaheelaBarkat]

Love this, using this design for my poster I’m due to make this week. Will try a QR code too 😊

[@jacobsessimfilho3109]

Amazing video and ideas. I just loved it. Congratulations. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@sopsybugsy]

Wow! This blew my mind. Sadly I already printed out my poster. Moving forward I'll incorporate these ideas next time. Thanks for sharing.

[@jaykuchera5058]

Awesome, Mike! Entertaining yet informative. Spot on. Thanks for the links !

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Sure thing Jay! Make sure to check out the updated Gen 2 cartoon and layouts too!

[@kombuchas4684]

Fantastic storytelling! Love the way you broke down the problem and presented the better solution. I'm learning more about UX and this is a great example of improving the UX of everyday stuff :)

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Thank you! You can see even more UX principles explained (and applied to posters) in my more recent videos!

[@yatirb]

Dear Mike Thanks so much for you excellent video! I took your advise and made my poster to the ADA 2019 session. according to your recommendations! I appreciate the tremendous amount of work you invested in this video!

[@TheWhiteRaven333]

Thank you, Mike! I plan on using this (kind of) template on my posters from now on. Nicely done!

[@SarahPressman]

This is awesome! I'm going to try to get the conference I've chaired for the last 2 years to post this somewhere... So clever ❤️ thanks for your hard work!

[@celestone6899]

Thanks for the tips! I am recently back in academia after years as a business owner and I was shocked at the amount of information on these conference posters. It seems so "academic" and not practical, which is the problem. Nevertheless, I just completed my first poster for a national conference and used your suggestions. Too bad the conference is online now :(. It's ok, there will be plenty of other opportunities for me to stand out in my profession. Thanks again.

[@davidneale-lorello2954]

Utterly brilliant. One of those psych research outcomes that seems forehead-smacking obvious once someone shows it to you, but utterly invisible until they do. Thanks for your excellent work! (I know the research is still pending, but still...)

[@anjankatta1864]

This is fantastic man, you really have a knack for this. I hope you keep making videos like this, you'll blow up eventually with awesome quality and clarity like this

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Thanks Anjan!! Would LOVE to make more videos, and planning on it!

[@vvpiano712]

This is so funny:) Exactly what I thought about posters sessions: ) If main idea is put in center it doesnt make it false or true by default ( like some others suggested). It makes it simply readable from far to spark the interest to get you closer. Maybe its false, maybe its true, you have more reading to do anyways to judge. But at least that would be reading because you are interested in, not a reading to see IF you are interested at all! Makes a difference and saves time. Thank you, Mike for making this video, its fun) and brave, and useful!!

[@viniciusaugustocorrea9960]

man, this is REALLY helpful, tank you! And its funny too!!

[@MG-oi2zy]

This was highly entertaining and packed with great advice! :)

[@shadenblue]

Wow! you inspired me actually with so many ideas! Thank you so much! I'm about to design my first research to participate in conference

[@kathleenmuir2033]

Mike, although science isn't my domain, I always try to see things through a different lens. Your cartoon was so awesome, I had to play it back through Otter.ai to obtain the transcript. The visuals were spot on and you've triggered a good few ideas, including a QR code on my ZOOM background when presenting a seminar and leaving folks at the end to scan the code to get the PDF preso. The main thing I took away was your saying how much you believe is these walkthrough poster sessions were more effective 'we could accelerate insight and discovery and be more fun for everybody'. Your template is awesome. I'm also a Presentations Guild Member and love Sandy, Try and Nolan's Presentation Podcast, which I've still to listen to.

[@lucaschacha5506]

Thanks man. I'm using your template in my presentation. Thanks for sharing.

[@tamaraembrey8273]

Oh thank god for this! It's like you read my mind and a huge weight has lifted.

[@douglasbessette6722]

i've never had anybody articulate EXACTLY what i feel as both presenter and attendee of a poster session. THANK YOU!!!!

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Of course! Bad design at scale will do that to you haha. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jaygooch7088]

Bravo Mike. This is soooooooo needed. Look forward to the validation study.

[@nataliepeters4982]

This is so good!! Thank you for sharing!!

[@umakegoodcookies]

Mike, I watched this some time ago and have come back to it again. The video is very good but I do seem to see many people in the comments with no real understanding of what you have done. This in no way impedes serious conversation between the presenter and viewer. It doesn't make the posters weaker or dumbed down. And, in my experience it's a bit naïve to believe that your scan of the abstracts beforehand is sufficient to tell what you can get out of a poster session. Something missed in an abstract may jump right out in a poster session like you've proposed. I think that the aspect of delight and surprise could come into poster sessions to a much greater degree if some of your ideas were broadly followed. As someone who spent a lot of work designing posters in the early 90's with nice graphics and saw the advent of the poster on a single printed sheet as both a boon and a curse I appreciate what you've done. When you had to print everything on separate pieces of paper and lay it out when you get to the session there was opportunity for great design that many people took but there were a lot of terrible posters too. The biggest problem I see in comments on this (here and elsewhere) is that people seem to be taking the design ideas far too seriously in their specifics. One could have a shorter main message and have it take up less space, be nice and readable from afar, and include more close up information to the left and bottom. I see what you've done as spreading a very valuable idea, not a canonical set of rules for poster layout. I will say that it might be nice to mix your ideas a bit with the infographics folks. One issue with the particular infographics examples you showed is that they could be pared down as well.

[@bern2632]

This comment should be on top. You succeeded in pinpointing what's the aspect that a lot of people in the comments missed in their interpretation of the ideas in the video. Thank you for your input. It helped put words on the reflexions I had when reading the criticisms of Mike's model.

[@nina31011987]

Mike this so entertaining :) you really know what you doing :)

[@omomohoho]

Great vid! Sorry just got back to it just now. This kind of video take forever to create + super niche too. Deserved this 1m views!

[@sarahhassett8065]

This is a great video - so clear and useful.

[@mycaroxas4088]

What a consider that I am also a psych major, and I have seen how terrible the research posters are over here. I am not much of an artists nor a top notch student but I do believe that we can do better. This is a great video, I'm glad you talked about it! We need more discussions about this!

[@telmalaurentino1111]

Thank you for investing your time in this! This is good for science and science is good for all!

[@julienroy6561]

Amazingly well communicated idea. I love the new poster design.

[@MikeMorrisonPhD]

Thanks Julien! Figured this would be more fun than a paper.

[@leilaledbetter7963]

This is so interesting! I teach poster creation at a big university and I plan to experiment with this idea. Librarians and faculty are having conversations about it.

[@MolarArtist1]

I'm a graphic artist at the University of Nebraska. I also teach two classes in poster production. I love, love, love this concept and going to introduce it ASAP. Keep it simple ... Don't be afraid of negative space.

[@ElectricityTaster]

I propose an idea: For the price of two fabric posters you can get a 50" screen. Use that for fullscreen clickbait to lure in the suckers then blast them with data when they get closer.

[@willpkay]

Mind blown. Mike, this is fantastic. Well done. I am definitely using this at my next poster presentation. Thank you for sharing this idea! I am sharing this video widely!