Research Guides: Creating a Research Poster: Example (2024)

Why:

1. Too much text
2. Background image is distracting
3. Text box backgrounds are dark, which makes text really hard to read
4. Text box backgrounds are all different colors, for no reason
5. Text boxes are different widths
6. Text boxes not separated from each other by pleasing “white” space
7. Text box edges not aligned
8. Text justified, which causes bad inter-word spacing, making it difficult to read
9. Logos are distracting, useless, crowd title
10. Title word art distracting, hard to read, juvenile
11. Title is in all caps abd italicized, which is harder to readandobscures Latin name
12. Author font and color is too loud relative to other text
13. Results are presented in sentences instead of visually with charts
14. Section headers have too much formatting
15. Inclusion of an Abstract consumes space needlessly