Project: UT Dana Center Carnegie Layouts (1/3 of Dana Center projects)
Client: Dana Center (Alison Cothe is principal contact)
Completion Status: In progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni (art director), Maddy (project assistance and InDesign guru)
STA Team Members: Rachel, Cristina, Abriella
Description/Plans: So! The UT Dana Center is a center at UT that (simplistically put) works to reduce educational disparities by taking action in mathematics and science curricula across TX and US in under served communities. LAITS is now taking on 3 projects related to designing InDesign layouts for their content, as well as creating a few infographics.

We are still in the early stages of this project, but I have helped with project management and assistance w/ this, creating Box folders and a spreadsheet to track our progress. I am focusing on project assistance but am also getting trained w/ Rachel on InDesign so I can do hands-on design work if needed!

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/43490-2/

So, this week I’ve been bopping around. I’ll detail my work below more coherently, but for a TL;DR: continuing to pen the accessibility training (it’s almost ready to go online!), helping with project management on a new service center project, and editing photo IDs.

But first, have a low quality photo of me and Bucky a moment before he leapt for freedom

Accessibility Training

So this is really exciting for me! Maddy, Suloni, and Estella have been kind enough to let me spend more work hours than I probably should have on writing an accessibility training for designers. This is really an area close to my heart, because I’ve decided it’s the area in which I would like to pursue a career. It really combines a lot of areas I love, such as research and writing, design and development, and client communication.

This overview covers a quick summary of legal requirements and W3C recommendations, as well as more hands-on steps STAs can take to ensure accessibility. If anyone wants to chat more about web accessibility and what it means beyond not getting legal action for violations, let me know!

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/43487-2/

Hello!

I’m getting closer & closer to wrapping up the Accessibility in Graphic + UX Design  KB write-up :~)

 

 

I’ve been taking a self-paced course w/ the Department of Homeland Security abt Section 508 materials that has definitely helped a lot!

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/43365-2/

Hello, blog! It’s been a little while.

I’ve been working on several different things, listed below:

UT in Context

Before my week-long break, I prepared a mock-up for UT in Context, which I handed off to Thuy and Estella for further development.

GOV 371U PPTs

I’ve been helping give Adrian and Rachel feedback for a reformatting project.

MUS307 Icons

I sent off final icons (PNGs) and pre-formatted icons off to the professor.

MIS 320F

I prepared a TA Vertical Monitor for this course.

 

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/43280-2/

I’ve been working on helping with art direction for course graphics, miscellaneous KBs, and Pages documentation. I spoke with Tim and Suloni Wednesday about the latter, so I’ll be hoping to post a new version on Basecamp soon. I’ve also been working on Jazz icons for MUS 307.

Project: MUS 307 Jazz Era PPT Icons
Client: Dr. Mike Sailors
Completion Status: In progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni (art director), Jennifer and Anne (PMs)
STA Team Members: me
Description/Plans: Creating jazz photographic icons for the following eras: New Orleans Era, Swing Era, Bebop Era, Cool Jazz Era, Hardbop Era, Modal Era, Fusion Era, Neoclassical Era to be placed in a powerpoint template.

I did a little research as to which jazz artists are popularly associated with each “era” or subgenre of jazz, and came up with some ideas. Here are my current icons:

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving break! The majority of what I did besides hanging out with friends + family is catsit. Here is Pirate waiting for her drink.

I don’t have a ton of updates, but here you go:

Pages STA Essentials KB

This was added to the KB! Pages STAs of present and future (orientation is this Wednesday) can view it as a resource and reference, a supplement to training by Michelle.

Web Development KB Assistance

I’ve started helping to copyedit web dev KB entries like the Github one. I’ve also started brainstorming edits for the Canvasser KB.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/42693-2/