Yup. There is more than one blog that addresses issues of how to make a conference poster less crowded, overwhelming, scary to read, unapproachable, etc. Among the lesser hints I've read (which I have nonetheless followed by deciding I'll wear a faded denim color shirt the day of my poster): that poster presenters who are dressed in colors that clash with their posters get less visitors to their posters.
One blog I browsed for a bit: BetterPosters
And I will probably read some more of Designing conference posters. And who doesn't want to Pimp Their Poster?
After reading and browsing, I finally looked back at some talk slides and started designing. I wanted to keep the colors minimal but pleasing. I wanted to put some information in as icons instead of text, because who wants to read an article on a wall (this is what I find hardest at conferences...my brain just doesn't handle wall-mounted text very well). And I still need to add blocks of motivations and conclusions texts. Here is what I have so far, blue people represent grad students, red people represent faculty, and I need to add the notion of the American, Research I institute as my study site, to the lower left corner where my 12 grad and 9 faculty interviewees are represented - comment away!
