Week 18

GSD Course Promo Flyer

Project: GSD Course Promo Flyer
Client /Prof: Germanic studies
Completion status: TBD
Staff guidance: Maddy, Valerie & Adrian
Description/plans: Germanic studies have requested a batch of course posters, so we’re using templates. Some of the posters have photo assets provided; choose 1-2 that look good together, collage if necessary but keep it simple! If assets aren’t provided, find something relevant to the course.

EUS 305

• The description of the course was quite brief so I wasn’t sure what kind of images would best suit this flyer. I’ve since received feedback from Adrian that “professors prefer newer ‘cleaner’ graphics when the topic is open-ended” He suggested looking into political maps of Europe or some EU-related symbol.

EUS 305: Final

GSD 341S

• Although this triptych seems a little jarring at first glance, it’s very direct about the progression from print to film. Tbh I would love to see how we got from a print and press to Heidi Klum on Germany’s Next Top Model.

GSD 361P

• There was a lot of back and forth about what kind of picture should be placed on the right (2014 world cup, 1936 Olympics, etc.)

 

STA Photo Cutouts

I started cutting out some STA photos but the ones I’ve completed are also design STAs and I do not want to put a giant pic of their face on my blog in case they don’t want that LOL

Week 17

Faculty Search Committee PPT Redesign

Project: FSC PPT Redesign
Client /Prof: Dr. Grayson
Completion status: TBD
Staff guidance: Maddy & Lorena
Description/plans: On the first day, I sourced icons from thenounproject.com for a slide in the PPT. Next, Adrian and I helped redo some of the graphs into the new format/slide template Lorena created. Having a graph template made the process really smooth, so thank you Lorena!!

icons:

• I tried to choose icons based on the text provided and match the style/line weight as best as I could.

lol no graph pics anymore

Week 16

Project: TXGDP

Started on: Feb 7, 2022

Completed on: Feb 10, 2022

Staff Guidance: Maddy, and Stacy

Description: For this project, after completing Figma design, I am tasked with translating the design into the WordPress testimonial portion. There are a lot of things that I struggle to make the WordPress portion look like the design. For example, with the top three cards, I need to make one div on top of another div. Moreover, in the bottom cards, I need to make the picture on the same line with the name. This sounds easy but in WordPress, everything is divided into columns, and we need to specify how much space each column will take up. To translate into WordPress, I make it 50 50 and change the flex-grow for the picture and the name.

My figma design: 

My WordPress site 

https://tgdp.org/tgdp-testimonials-2-2/

 

Last Week, I also answered Jolene’s question about the link that directs the user to new tab instead of the one the user is in.

Week LXII

Yup, I’m center-aligning headers and embeds now.

TGDP Banner 5

A lot of progress here. This is actually the third official draft, just sent out yesterday, after grueling trial and error. Maddy suggested editing the county map, and moving the website blurb to one corner.

Note to self: always check for the plus signs of cut-off text in InDesign. I somehow miss 1 or 2 every draft.

Intermediate Training: Animate Simple Course Graphics

Remember this? Well, now I know what keyframes are!

Honestly, the technical side of Ae is smoother than I expected (at least the basics). What’s really tricky is actual composition. Animation is a really intricate science, and my first draft definitely doesn’t feel ‘right’ in terms of pacing and framing. I talked to Maddy about a blog post I saw which had some storyboarding tips from the Adventure Time artists.

It doesn’t help that I barely storyboarded this one, kinda just figuring out in Ae from the raw materials. I’d be very interested in playing with this kind of thing more and getting the hang of making stuff that feels smooth and balanced.

Week 5

Project: Qualtrics LTI Grade CSV Passback

 

Project: Qualtrics LTI Grade CSV Passback

Client/Prof: LAITS

Started on: February 6, 2023

Completion status: Still in progress

Staff guidance: Chris Pittman, Stacy Vlasits

Description/plans: Feature to download student responses as CSV file

 

This week I started working on my first project at LAITS. Qualtrics LTI is a tool that you might be familiar with if you’ve ever taken a survey or a quiz here at UT. LTIs are application meant to be use as learning and instruction tools, another well known one here at UT is Instapoll. For this project, I was assigned to add a feature for instructor to be able to retrieve a CSV (Comma Separated Values) of a student’s responses after taking a quiz.

 

Qualtrics LTI is built on Laravel PHP Framework which follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. What is all of this? All websites you access that allow you to store information just as a username and password, items in a cart, or make posts have a database and a server behind them. MVC is a layout most commonly used to facilitate the development of these websites. Model represents all of data- here it would be the information to be retrieved such as the student ID, grade, and timestamp. View is the user interface or everything you see and interact with on a website. The controller is what connects the model and the view and the part of the layout that I will add to include this feature.