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Zen Faulkes, Better Posters: “No frickin’ Comic Sans”
“[The blog] Better Posters is about making posters informative and beautiful”. Meet invertebrate neuroethologist Zen Faulkes at The University of Texas-Pan American.
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Jennifer Briselli: “Help scientists approach science communication like designers”
”I want to help the science community communicate better.” So Jennifer Briselli, design strategist with a background in physics, education, rhetoric and design, started her two part article “Designing Science Communication” on medium.com.
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Designing better graphs, part 1: Pie charts—popular but sometimes unclear
This is the first of a three part tutorial where Elena Milani (@biomug on Twitter), a science communicator with a neurobiology background, gives some advice on how to use graphs in a more effective way.
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The von Restorff effect
This is a guest post from Crastina’s partner somersault18:24, originally posted on their website.
your audience will remember the unusual
Have a look at the picture above this blog post. That is the von Restorff effect…
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What Scientists Can Learn From Designers (Matt Carter, May 2015)
According to neurobiologist Matt Carter, scientists often do a poor job at designing for example articles, scientific posters, and talks. But there are many core communication skills that could rather easily be acquired from professional designers.