Last Day as an STA

It’s my last day working as an STA! This has a been an amazing job to have as a college student and I’m so grateful for the opportunity. I’ve been able to learn a lot about the process of design creation and workflow in a professional setting, which has been really helpful to me as an English major looking to develop my tech and design skills.

Suloni has been a kind and patient supervisor to me and I’ve enjoyed working with all the STAs. I’m taking some time off this spring so I won’t be returning next semester, but I’m hoping to be back for the summer months, so I’m looking forward to that!

Bridget

VLabs

Last week I finished copying content for my assigned labs into the new site. The next phase will be making the interactives, which is going to take awhile since many of the assets need to be created in Photoshop before that can be made into clickable interactives using Canvasser.

Yesterday Estella taught me how to make web interactives in Canvasser and I started working the first one, which will be a practice exercise for everyone to get to learn how to make the interactives and get to the same level in Canvasser. I was a little intimidated to try this since I’m not as computer savvy as some of the other STAs and Canvasser scares me a little bit but it wasn’t actually that bad. Writing down the steps and repeating them until I got the hang of it helped me.

Here’s a link to the interactive that I made:

https://laits.utexas.edu/canvasser/canvasser_content/bridget-test/bridget-test.html

Russian

I also made a few illustrations this past week for Tate and Kathy. The first one is an illustration showing a raised body temperature on a celsius thermometer, drawn in a semi-realistic style, similar to wikihow illustrations. I pulled the flesh tones and background color from an example illustration Kathy showed us and modeled the thermometer/hand after a few copyright-free images. The second is an illustration of a bath brush that I did for Tate, which I also used a reference photo for. All of these objects are made in Adobe Animate as vector images, and since they’re being used for animations they don’t require as much detail, so I only added a bit of texture on the bristles of the brush to add some dimension (initially I had two tones on the wooden handle but I went back to one color to keep it more minimal). I really enjoyed doing these illustrations so I hope I get more assignments soon!

RUS 412 Objects

Dry erase board eraser

Apple peeler

My patch design proposals for level 4 STAs, using the LAITS color scheme, plus more photo IDs:

 

Continuing to work on Vlabs, plus IDs, the updated Turkish language banner and my patch design:

 

project: eAnthro Virtual Labs
completion status: Started Sep. 20 2018
staff guidance: Ruben, Suloni
STA team members: Chloe, Melissa, Duo, Estella, Emily, Valerie
description/plans: find, copy and paste content (text, pictures) to the new WP site for each assigned lab, make notes on excel spreadsheet when there are interactives/other elements that can’t be pasted in.
To be completed: n/a

Continuing with the above project which has been my priority for the past week–I’ve been assigned 2 labs and I’m almost done with the first. I’ve also been working on IDs and fixing a banner for the Turkish studies page.