We chat with Mike Morrison, a former User Experience (UX) designer who quit his tech career to research how we can bring UX design principles to science. We discuss Mike's recently introduced 'better poster' format and why scientists should think carefully about UX.
Here's what we cover:
What’s the story behind the “better poster?”
The Better Poster video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RwJbhkCA58)
The Better Poster template (https://osf.io/ef53g/)
The importance of minimising cognitive load
Science isn’t badly designed, it’s not even designed at all
What is good User Experience (UX)?
The most important feature of SciHub
Version 2 of the ‘better poster’
Weird poster designs that James has seen over the years
The Fish Market study (https://peerj.com/articles/7138/)
Common misunderstandings of the better poster
Empirically investigating the performance of the Better Poster
The meta-meta poster
How better posters get better questions
Mike’s next target: Better Presentations
Andrew York’s Github paper (https://andrewgyork.github.io/remote_refocus/)
A special give-away!
Other links
- Mike on twitter (https://twitter.com/mikemorrison)
- Dan on twitter (www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
- James on twitter (www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
- Everything Hertz on twitter (www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
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Music credits: Lee Rosevere (freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, July 1) "Improving the scientific poster (with Mike Morrison)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/BNP7E (https://osf.io/bnp7e/) Special Guest: Mike Morrison.