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French Textbook Icons

These are the pending french textbook icons so far and what the process has looked liked. I start off by drafting all my icons in gray scale and I used adobe illustrator with clean lines to mimic the look of the site. However, the team wanted to go in the direction of making it look more like an illustrated icon similar to the style of Tex and Tammy. I also made a page of drafts for each kind of icon. The last set of images was the new style however they wanted every icon image to be changed to something else so I sent over all my drafts so they pick which ones they like instead of the ones I had done. Hopefully there’s some in there that they like, if not I will re-sketch some more icon images in the direction they’d like. (:

Intro to Typography training:

Learned more about typefaces and their effect on design.

Some font pairings I thought were simple and cool:

I like the modern feel of Julius Sans One. To me it looks expensive paired with Archivo Narrow. I think its good for brand titles.

I like this pairing because it gives me a typewriter feel but there is a good separation between the two fonts. Usually in my mind titles are bold rather than thin but Montserrat in this example is the opposite. It’s thinner than Courier New but it works.

HTML/CSS training:

I spent a lot of time trying to animate the title text and do a wave. This is an example of something similar to what I was trying to do.

GIF

I am not very good at JavaScript so I tried making the animation with just CSS and still have not made it work :/. I did not want to spend anymore time on this training so I started others and I’ll revisit this later with a fresh mind.

Web Accessibility Training

For the web accessibility training I reviewed typography.com and the New York Times. Surprisingly, the NYT website had a lot of accessibility issues and is not a friendly site for visually impaired individuals. Typography.com did very well besides not having a clear header. After that I looked at a FIGMA site that was mocked up and had to quiz myself by listing out as many things wrong with it as possible and then compare it to the answer sheet.

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/blog/2021/11/29/42693-2/

This week I mainly worked on trainings.

HTML/CSS training:

I did a project earlier making a batman business card which flips when you click it.

Now I’m styling a New Girl script and focusing more on transformations with Javascript.

I also included a personal project. I’m working on the front-end of an app for an org I’m in so this is a little video of the work I’ve done in React Native.