How you can help

If you’d like to help improve the design of scientific posters, articles, talks, and beyond, thank you! Here are some ideas, ordered from easiest to hardest.

Less than 1 hour of effort¶

1. Donate your posters. Upload your past research posters to Figshare (during upload, choose CC-O public domain license ideally). If applicable, include the #betterposter hashtag in the description. This adds more posters than can be analyzed freely in studies, talks, and videos. When you do, please post link to your poster(s) on the ScienceUX reddit so we can all appreciate your efforts!
2. Send me pictures of poster sessions, talks, and conference events that you attend. These are incredibly useful for seeing the layout of different poster sessions, the content of different fields’ posters, etc. Plus they’re useful as content for presentations and videos. Please send them to Mike and I’ll help you post them where everybody can use them!

2-3 hours off effort¶

1. Organize a talk in your department/whatever. Note: Mike does regular talks/workshops on science communication and can put you in touch with other related experts.
2. Give your own sciencUX talk. You can download a bunch of related slides to use freely here.

About an hour per week¶

1. Get involved in a scienceUX research project. We are conducting several research studies at any given time. You can volunteer on one in any capacity! Right now we’re doing a lit review on scientific article design best practices, developing new measures for posters (hardware and survey), and a couple others. Reach on the ScienceUX reddit and we’ll find a project for you! Designers and scientists needed!