diff --git a/src/plot_displacement.m b/src/plot_displacement.m
index 63132b011e3614947731c047a11116e34e3d6ea2..709945fbce12ed007eb0404f2e3643cd2e0b9517 100644
--- a/src/plot_displacement.m
+++ b/src/plot_displacement.m
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 close all;
 
-plot(1:length(A),A(:,2));
-axis tight;
+plot(1:length(A),1e-6*A(:,2));
+
+xlabel timesteps
+ylabel displacement
diff --git a/src/plot_neumann.m b/src/plot_neumann.m
index 8fd9e217da81b4db4d93b1147fca087a36f805c9..701305a820f80026c1995440878a3bd4649b5b6b 100644
--- a/src/plot_neumann.m
+++ b/src/plot_neumann.m
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 close all;
 
 plot(1:length(A),A(:,3));
-axis tight;
+
+xlabel timesteps
+ylabel traction
diff --git a/src/plot_state.m b/src/plot_state.m
index 0172ebc79f665f369a29973b0baebc4d9acdbfc4..3fcd669c7d881c467a4b743fedd70d399bc052ce 100644
--- a/src/plot_state.m
+++ b/src/plot_state.m
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 close all;
 
-plot(1:length(A),A(:,1));
-axis tight;
+semilogy(1:length(A),exp(A(:,1)));
+
+xlabel timesteps
+ylabel state