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The ideal line length for comfortable reading is about 10 words per line. Online scientific journals often use 2x this length. So every sentence is more fatiguing to your eyes & harder to process. You perceive this as the MATERIAL ITSELF being slightly harder than it actually is.
Bonus tip: If you zoom an online (HTML fulltext) journal so the text size increases until it hits that average 10 words per line, you may find that the material feels easier to understand.
For you budding #UXDesign geeks:

Unnecessary cognitive load:
nngroup.com/articles/minim…

Conflating "hard to read" with "the material is hard"➡️Cognitive Ease heuristic (Kahneman, in pic).

Ideal line length➡️Any book on Typography from the last 60 years
amazon.com/Grid-systems-g…
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Let's fix academic posters! Prepping a poster for #SIOP19 and sick of the old "wall-of-text" poster design? Watch this cartoon to see a new, faster approach to designing research posters. Includes templates. #betterposter
Hi all! In case it's helpful, I've added a full-resolution image of the #betterposter template to the OSF repo, so if you'd like you can grab it and post it on your conference website as an example to encourage attendees to try it. osf.io/8ajqs/
Hi again all. Some people have been asking for an example of how to do a portrait layout with #betterposter. This is a just a quick draft that may need to be improved, but it's one way portrait COULD be done. Hope it helps. PowerPoint templates to follow later!
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