Spring 2021 Reflection

Today is my last day of work for the semester! I decided not to work during the summer because I feel like I didn’t get much time to work on myself and personal projects this year, this semester was… a lot haha. BUT I am excited to start all my summer projects and go back to the process of applying to countless internships and not hear back from them! Hopefully I can come back to LAITS with more skills and energy during the fall :))

 

Some projects I worked on outside of LAITS this semester:

I helped design and modeled an interactive exbibit for the Stark Center, it’s about two underrepresented weightlifters Tommy Kono and Jane Todd. Here’s a video walk-through of our design:

 

Also me and my friends designed and coded this recycling site for a class this semester, I am pretty proud of it :3

https://spring-2021.cs.utexas.edu/cs329e-bulko/sclong/Recycling4/index.html

RHE309K PPT Template

I worked with Poonum and we create 2 templates for the course “Rhetoric of Resistance.” Poonum came up with some really fun, creative title slides, so I used those as inspiration and created these 2 versions of content slides:

Color palette:

Testing Video Manager

I was tasked to test out the video manager tool with Miguel. It was interesting… The video manager seems to need a lot of improvement when it comes to UI design and some small glitches here and there. It would be fun to redesign this tool though!! Hopefully I get to work on that if possible!

PSY 319K Social Psychology Course Graphics

I made some canvas graphics for professor Henderson, this was an interesting one because we had to find a way to make style A graphics look balanced without.

Poonum and Maddy suggested that we could add a texture overlay on top of the plain color background, which I think was a great suggestion and helped give these graphics some dimension.

Lesson 6: Photography

Megan and I did some research on photography earlier in the semester for our STA course program, and I finally had time to put those information together into a KB post.

Some of the topics we researched:

• Photo licensing and copy right law
• How to source CC photos
• How to pick dynamic photos
• Resolution and resizing photos

I also created a short color grading activity and a banner for this module. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/kb/2021/04/14/lesson-6-photo-sourcing-and-color-grading/

STA 2021 Poster

I was assigned to create the STA poster for this year, Mike wanted the theme to be stacks of old TVs with neon lights.

Some inspirations:

We have a lot of STAs on board this year, 71 in total!! I decided to use different color on the LAITS logo for each STA team, design/coding team has orange TVs, video team has yellow TVs, audio team has green TVs, project management team has blue TVs, and operational support team has light grey TVs.

 

And this is the final poster: