About #BetterPosters

Academic conference posters have looked the same for decades: walls of dense text, tiny charts, and low attendee engagement. In 2019, Mike Morrison introduced the #BetterPoster movement with a simple, evidence-based premise: treat scientific posters like billboards.

By allocating roughly 60% of the poster canvas strictly to the main takeaway translated into plain language, researchers can communicate their core discovery to passersby in under five seconds. Detailed methods and data remain easily accessible on the sides for in-depth conversations, paired with QR codes linking directly to full preprints and papers.

The ScienceUX initiative maintains this open-source template repository, empirical research, and community gallery to make scientific communication faster, clearer, and more accessible for everyone.