Fujii's "How to design effective scientific figures"

Ryosuke Fujii's (2026) How to Design Effective Scientific Figures lives up to its title and is written at a level accessible to undergraduate and graduate students when conference time rolls around. It was published in Nature, and it focuses on understanding which type of figure to use depending on a) your data and b) your audience. It is only three pages long, and I found myself nodding and agreeing with the main points, summarized here:Additionally, the article contains this helpful flowchart detailing when to use which graphs. I appreciate that the flowchart isn't jargon-heavy and that it focuses on functionality.