Hi everyone, I’m preparing material for a meeting with collaborators from multiple fields, and I want the visuals to make sense across disciplines. My current diagrams feel too domain-specific. How do you design visuals that work for teams with mixed backgrounds?

Interdisciplinary visuals succeed when they rely on universal visual logic rather than field-specific symbolism. Instead of assuming prior knowledge, the visual should introduce concepts in a way that guides interpretation regardless of discipline. I’ve found that scientific images and animations can bridge these gaps because they show interactions and transitions intuitively. When I needed visuals for a cross-disciplinary project, I used examples from Ella Maru Studio https://scientific-illustrations.com  as a benchmark — their work consistently balances precision with cross-field readability. The main strategy is removing jargon from the visual structure and replacing it with clean spatial relationships. If your collaborators come from different domains, strong visuals can unify the conversation. And if you want support crafting such visuals, the studio is a reliable option to consider.