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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hY2flJutntung9Y.html P.S. - Thank you all for being open to improving your posters!

@maximilianv.w.955

3 жыл бұрын

pin this?

@MikeMorrisonPhD

3 жыл бұрын

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

@bowendarius5084

2 жыл бұрын

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@nashforrest9175

2 жыл бұрын

@Bowen Darius Instablaster =)

@bowendarius5084

2 жыл бұрын

@Nash Forrest thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@marystep630

5 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU!!!

@nickyhotwheeler

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

Bless you

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

@bnrenn

4 жыл бұрын

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

@catelarocque3539

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@BigToinE976

10 ай бұрын

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 !

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

1 week to the Conference Me : watching this video.

@Antonio-lt1sp

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@meriyame91

4 жыл бұрын

same here

@rahmahl5762

4 жыл бұрын

Same😂

@emftechEE

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

i put bullet points everywhere. readable bullet points.

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

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

@MikeMorrisonPhD

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Gallacher I was SO tempted.

@BuzzyHelps

4 жыл бұрын

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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!

@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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@user-hb9uz5ij9f

8 ай бұрын

How did your poster go? 🙏 @@robertjv

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

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

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

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!

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

3 ай бұрын

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! kzread.info/dash/bejne/hY2flJutntung9Y.html&lc=UgwbKVUXSVDwCcDMjM94AaABAg&ab_channel=MikeMorrison%2CPhD

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

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

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!!

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

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.

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.

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

@layna9065

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ariannarenteria3170

4 жыл бұрын

layna May the odds be in your favor 🙏

@layna9065

4 жыл бұрын

Arianna Renteria thank you so so much

@latoyarose7609

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@fawstinekessy8042

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Love your new poster presentation design!

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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!

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

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! :)

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

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

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

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

Great year, great output, totally worth it Mike.

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

@MikeMorrisonPhD

3 ай бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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.

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

5 ай бұрын

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

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!

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.

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!!” 😱 💩

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

This is fantastic! Thank you.

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

This is incredible!

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

Most of those "conclusions" in the center could be a traditional poster's title to achieve the same thing. I feel like putting some much space into the conclusion is putting a lot of faith in the creator of the poster. I've read many conclusions from posters that are not at all supported by the evidence presented in the poster. If I just went around and "absorbed" just the conclusions from each poster at a conference, I'd come away with some helpful information yes, but also a lot of misleading information. It's the same as a manuscript - you should never just skip to the conclusion (or only read the abstract), because those two areas are by far the most biased parts of a paper.

@WBradleyKnox

5 жыл бұрын

This point that you and others here have made seems worth careful consideration. However, as researchers, we should always be skeptical of assertions by other researchers, so you could just think of the big-text part as the big takeaway that you (1) quickly understand, (2) log in your memory as something someone is claiming to have shown, (3) and decide whether to engage further to judge for yourself the veracity of the assertion and what nuance needs to be added to it. Really, this process is how I'd want to approach any poster, and the suggested redesign just makes the first step *much more efficient*. Most posters probably won't be relevant enough to you for you to take the time to judge the assertion's accuracy, and the faster you can determine that, the better.

@briank7890

5 жыл бұрын

@@WBradleyKnox I'm wondering if the center could include a couple of key pieces. Like the conclusion, but also a brief description of methodology. Like "This is the conclusion we have" and then below "From a retrospective cohort study of a single institution..."

@WBradleyKnox

5 жыл бұрын

@@briank7890 That's interesting. So roughly you're proposing adding a middle tier, that has more detail than the short takeaway and less than the bar on the left? That seems like a reasonable alteration.

@briank7890

5 жыл бұрын

@@WBradleyKnox I'm thinking what I personally would want a quick summary of. It would be their conclusions plus a brief summary of the study. I spend 80% of my reading a paper on the methodology, so it should be similar for posters.

@anaelizabethochoasanchez3763

4 жыл бұрын

You could scan the QR code and read the whole paper(s) if you find it interesting...

This is incredible.

This is mind-blowing!

@MikeMorrisonPhD

2 күн бұрын

Haha thank you! You may like the sequel! kzread.info/dash/bejne/hY2flJutntung9Y.htmlsi=pxOwQbpjmh_xchUr

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.

Awesome!!!! Thank you for doing this!

Love this! Thanks!

Thank you! Bravo! You are a hero!

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

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

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

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

It's beyond exelent idea! Thank you

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

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

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!

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

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!

this is spot on, thanks for all the tips !!

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

You are my hero. Thank you for saying how we’ve all been feeling. I’m trying this out for my next poster.

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

This is a great video - so clear and useful.

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

OMG! thank you so much for this great video

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!!

Mike, Amazing video, thanks very much