Six Insights to Make Better Academic Conference Posters.

Conceptualize Your Poster Design Reflecting on your success indicators, your audience, and main messages, how can you create a poster design that helps rather than hinders conveying the content? Helpfully, faced with the prospect of producing an academic poster for the first time, new researchers both consciously and unconsciously base this poster on their understanding of the genre of the academic conference poster. Yet genre makes it hard for good posters to even be made due to the sheer dominance of poor posters because each bad poster both reflects and also constitutes the future genre of the conference poster. To develop proficiency in producing academic conference posters, and to effectively represent the academic poster genre, new researchers are likely to already have knowledge of this genre through their own previous experiences of conference posters ([9]). [Extracted from the article]