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Last day at LAITS!

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Last day at LAITS!

I’ve been an STA at LAITS for around 6 months and it has been a great experience so far! Suloni, thank you for being such an amazing supervisor. I really enjoyed working here and will miss working with all the super talented STAs!

I was constantly amazed by the design skills of the STAs & the artwork created here. I learned a lot about Web Design, Responsive CSS, WordPress & Photoshop during my time at LAITS. I was a newbie to Photoshop when I joined here but I was quite surprised at the plant illustrations that I could create – Thank you Valerie for answering all my questions related to Photoshop so patiently!

I think the STA program is a wonderful place to learn new skills and apply them and I’m grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it. Thank you everyone for making my time here so fun and memorable!

I’ve been looking for funding opportunities so I will be moving on to a Teaching Assistant role for McCombs School of Business for a Data Management course. I will miss being an STA! This is my first job in this country after getting a work permit so I will always cherish it. Cheers to all the STAs and wish you all the best for your future endeavors at LAITS and beyond. Thank you!

Photo ID Basic Training

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Photo ID Basic Training

I practiced editing some employee Photo IDs as a part of basic training. I downloaded the client pictures from Box, edited them on Photoshop, and made an 80×90 px and 200×300 px version for each. For one of the employees, I thought it might be helpful to blur the background. But Suloni said we should try to keep aesthetic edits to a minimum, which is good to remember for future Photo IDs.

 

 

Basic Training: Canvas Callout Buttons

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Basic Training: Canvas Callout Buttons

For this assignment I had to learn how to edit buttons like STA’s do, to be used in Canvas. The following buttons are my evidence for that. I used the preset template, but changed the colors and the text to get familiar with how they work. The colors were chosen from the UT authorized primary and secondary color palettes.

              

Buttons

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Canvas Buttons Basic Training

 

Buttons! For clicking. Above is a set of buttons. I changed the color of each based on UT’s branding guidelines.

STA Bio and Basecamp Avatar

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STA Bio and Basecamp Avatar

We were asked to make a short bio about ourselves and an avatar for Basecamp. Seeing everyone else’s bios has been helpful in a virtual setting. Here are mine! I made both of them on Photoshop and tried to keep the green in both.