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!
https://creditsurvey.sciux.org/

#OpenScience #ScienceUX

PSA: Last week, Affinity Studio (major Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop alternative) went completely 'free forever'. I may start recommending this to PhD students in my #scicomm workshops!
https://www.affinity.studio/graphic-design-software

I suspect they're just doing this to use Canva's mountain of cash to obliterate Adobe in one swing, but...I'm okay with that?

@adamsteer that’s a pretty tight talk summary! Let me try to summarize my slide design courses as fast…

0. One thing at a time

1. Your brain can process the speakers’ voice OR read text.

2. You CAN process a (non-text) visual and a voice at once, in parallel.

3. The goal is to communicate on all 3 parallel processing channels (verbal, visual, and emotional) without overloading any one channel.

4. An emotional central visual gets remembered

@A_bee - yeah these were just 'stimuli slides' of sorts. So we needed topics that most people would have some knowledge of without it being common knowledge.

It's testing 3 specific formats across conditions (you only saw one, hopefully).

And the study was inspired by some 'worst practices' noticed by our subject matter expert.

Thanks for filling it out!

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? 🙏
https://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 DWB/MSF Pediatric conference this year.

Video explains design decisions & the science communication principles at play:
https://youtu.be/1QoYDeYu59k

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 have a hideously-ugly 3D printed prototype! 🎉

Video explains: https://youtu.be/7RgjXVU8XGU

Big 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.
#betterposter