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Great fun running an Accessible Science Figure Design workshop at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! We looked into #Gestalt & #UX in the context of #curbcutting -accessibility helps everyone. More context here: tinyurl.com/fig-design TY @cassiebakshani.bsky.social 💜 #AccessibleDesign #SciComm #AMR
best practices: Use Hierarchy. Shapes piled in size order with 'use hierarchy' in large text. Smaller text, 'you'll probably read this about drawing attention later on'. Gestalt principles diagram: 8 visual examples showing how we perceive and group visual elements, including proximity, similarity, closure, and symmetry. Essential concepts for accessible science figure design Lateral gene transfer diagram. on white background - simplified to show the transformation, transduction and conjugation. The chaos from the examples submitted from the workshop participants. 4 egs of bad colour, too much info and no whitespace
June 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM