Whether in academia or industry many of us -pre-pandemic- waded through crowded poster halls at conferences to get quick glimpses at snapshots of research projects presented in this condensed form.

Carolyn Trietsch recently defended her Ph.D. in entomology at Penn State. You can view her website or follow her on Twitter @carolyntrietsch. Poster presentations are a staple of academic conferences.

Posters and flyers live or die by one thing: readability. You can have stunning visuals, but if the date is wrong, the headline’s blurry, or the hierarchy feels chaotic, people scroll right past. That ...