This workshop introduces the participants to ideas that can help them think about designing their slides, social media posts, banners, posters, etc. The workshop focuses on some broad and easy issues of fonts, colour, and layouts that can improve design. The goal of this workshop is to help the researcher feel confident in designing visuals and assure them that they are entirely competent to create what they need to communicate their work, and already have the tools to do so. No prior knowledge of any design software is needed. (The workshop is the first in the series but not a pre-requisite for the second design workshop that focuses on how to think of designing posters and flyers and more specific issues of graphic design in academia).