The COLA Web Refresh project is closer to full swing!

I’m currently zeroing in (along with Lorena and Adrian) on process documentation.

Project: COLA Web Refresh Project (Phase 3 Pre-Auto Migration Process Documentation)
Client: College of Liberal Arts
Completion Status: In progress, will finish this week probably
Staff Guidance: Michelle (PM), Chris (content strategist)
STA Team Members: Adrian, Lorena
Description/Plans: Chris, Geoff are still working on auto-migration script that will auto-migrate pages for all departments/centers/institutes/units end of this month, so for now me and a couple other CMSTAs are working on process documentation. What does this mean? Basically, noting what the script failed to pick up, or maybe transferred strangely, things we may want to document and expect to work on manually cleaning up in the future. A lot of this has to do with design, layout, or image issues.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2022/03/02/43657-2/

MAP OF PARIS

The French textbook wanted to have a map redesigned. It needed to be a combination of these two maps with the district names and the icons of the city. The last image at the bottom is the first draft that I made. Feedback is currently pending on this.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2022/02/21/43556-2/

Austin 311 Data

Data Visualization of Austin 311 Calls I did for my design class. It was my first homework assignment involving actual images and visuals. Please look at it, it took my 7 hours! This link will auto delete in a month and the file image size was too large for a post!

Data Vis on Austin 311 Calls

Graphs for Boas

Hans Boas is having a presentation printed out and in this document he needed some graphs re-designed for a BW format at half a page size. He requested only outlined boxes and more on the plain side. I kept the formatting of the graph the same since the supplemental text he supplied followed with the graph nicely.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2022/02/14/43494-2/

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/blog/2022/02/11/43490-2/

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/blog/2022/02/11/43487-2/