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85: How to transform science into clear and welcoming graphics — with Jen Christiansen

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How to Design a Scientific Poster

Alignment. I love like making sure that labels and captions and different design elements on a page are kind of aligned with each other or with a margin. So if you have a few leader lines from labels that point to objects on a graphic, it just kind of helps provide a slightly cleaner view of the graphic. Another thing that I noticed from your redesigns of the scientific posters is let's say there's maybe four steps in this thing that someone is trying to explain. So why not kind of like just pull me through the graphic by showing me with some visual hierarchy like step one is the first thing you should be looking at. Like let me just grab you by the lapels and

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