Project Planning Plan - Prepare - Procrastinate

• Absolute Minimum Time: 2 weeks

• Templates and Design Habits Save Time: Investment of First Time Designing Pays Off

• IDEaS staff on occasions have perform miracles, However, Don’t rely on it!

• Save time for– Corrections in spelling, typos, missing info – Pictures that don’t print, – Formatting problems– traffic jams at the plotter,

Content Scope it Out

• Purpose: To Communicate Scientific/Technical Information, VISUALLY

• Understand the Constraints of Presentation:

– Space is limited – Find out what you have – Use it all

– Time is limited, Actual one-to-one contact time is very short

• 11 second to trap the prey

• Up to 10 min for them to devour your work

• Let them have hours to digest your work by giving them a reprint

• Work Most on Sparking Interest and on Keeping it, VISUALLY

Content Sharpen the Focus of the Poster

• DO NOT TRANSPOSE YOUR TECHNICAL PAPER!!

• Carefully narrow the focus of your poster

• Decide on a single key point. Focus should be:

Keen interest to the audience or Controversial At the very least, Memorable

• Point must be visible from 10 feet away.

• Dedicate 1/3 of the Poster to that Point.

• Rather than Condense the Manuscript, Expand the Abstract

Content Prioritize

• Audience can have a short attention span. Prioritize the message.

• Attention follows the following pattern:TitleTitle

Large Pictures or Color DiagramsLarge Pictures or Color DiagramsInteresting SubtitlesInteresting Subtitles

Large Problem StatementsLarge Problem StatementsAbstractAbstract

ConclusionsConclusionsAll the restAll the rest

• Attention can be lost anywhere along the way.

Content Use Priority to Convey the Message

• Tell the Story around the following Subtitles and prepare the content to fill the sections:

TitleTitleAbstractAbstract

IntroductionIntroductionMethodsMethodsResultsResults

ConclusionsConclusionsAcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

• Eliminate all Non-Essentials

• Get rid of common knowledge, unprocessed data, and the mundane. If you must, bore them in the reprint.

Content Visually Demonstrate the Point

• Use Graphs Not Tables

• Try Bulleted Items Not Verbose Paragraphs

• Use Arrows to Show flow Not Words

• Label Graphs Directly Do Not Use Legends

• Get directly to the Point and Reiterate it.

Content Finally:

• Relevance- each element should have a purpose in the overall design

• Proportion- size should relate to the importance of the object

• Direction- signpost the order in which you want your poster read. The design needs to guide the reader from point to point.

• Consistency- no piece should be in isolation. A design is an integrated whole.