Here are my drafts that I have sketched out for the K-12 infographic. I am currently waiting on feedback from my coworkers then I will make these in photoshop. Below are the different icons for each topic. The ones with only one image were approved.
To make documentation more interesting, Suloni and Abriella came up with the idea of adding more graphic elements such as banners and relevant icons to knowledge base tutorials. I made a banner for the how to package logo design tutorial.
For the LACS info-graphics, Bridget made a beautiful template that makes everything so much more efficient. I created an icon for “higher education,” Abriella, Bridget, Suloni, and Valerie gave me some very helpful inputs and I am excited to learn more about icon design through this project.
This is the info-graphic I was assigned, I am currently working on the pathways icons.
The Center of Women’s and Gender Studies requested a banner change. Brazilian artists Grupo OPNI made some stunning graffiti in the CWGS reception area, which the new manner features. I can’t wait to stop by and check them out in person.
Here is a link to more photographs of the mural: https://utexas.app.box.com/s/nn439kltmihqe72odiagnluubdlxasb6
Before spring break we were playing with some servo motors in my fabrication class and I didn’t get a chance to return them, now school is closed so I get to keep them! I’ll be using them for a little toy I designed, it’ll be a tv with multiple scenes that you can switch to by turning the servo. These are the draft and mock up:
Dr. Lichtenstein and Galit decided on the final design, this is how it looks like:
We are now waiting on the headquarter’s approval.
I completed the documentation for the Warfield Web Page and will be working on the new changes requested by the client in the faculty book page.
For this new requirement, I need to add and remove a few books from the Faculty books page and the page with the full list of books.
In addition to adding and removing books from this webpage, I will be working on updating the layout of the below webpage and implement css pullQuote style for the poem in this page.
I started working on a project to make old websites responsive using Cascading Style Sheets.
The drafts are almost ready. Maddy, Suloni, and Valerie had many helpful inputs on the text layout and color choice, which made the process much more exciting, it was satisfying to see how each design evolves. These are the latest mockups, which will be sent to the client tomorrow and they will pick their favorite!
We had some confusion on the print file, but it’s all done! I learned how to add bleeding in Illustrator with Maddy’s help and posted my first Knowledge Base documentary.
I started on my first design project, which is updating the brochure for the MS ISP program.
This project has a time constraint of 4 hours and we are currently waiting on the measurement for the print ready file.
This is a draft for the web file:
I went to my first client meeting with Valerie and Suloni on Tuesday!
Suloni and Valerie were great at accessing the client’s needs and expressing designer viewpoints at the same time, the clients were convinced and compromised on the constrains. Valerie’s pun game was strong too!
These are some mockups of the draft:
When researching for conversion programs/emulators for flash last semester, we came up fairly dry. Even though there were a fair amount of projects within the realm of flash preservation, many were unmaintained, slow developing, or dead in the water. And so, we went forward with figuring out an alternative solution, manually converting with only the swf files. It grew to become a fairly daunting task, specifically because the best tool we had to recreate interactivity, Canvasser, does not support multiple pages (which many of the interactives contain). Also, many of the interactives were very extensive with the content within them, and would take a lot of time to reproduce.
Luckily, it seems that a semester later, a new project has arisen, produced by the team at Newgrounds.com, one of the largest maintainers of flash content today (games and animations). They have a strong incentive to keep everything running as if nothing ever happened to the eyes of the end user, and so good, usable progress on their project ruffle.rs is available. I’ve been able to test things, and while it’s not complete (which I assume it will be before flash dies this year), it can emulate the primitive scripting of the Hebrew interactives fairly well in this proof-of-concept phase.
They obviously look identical to the original flash file, and that’s because it essentially is running the flash file, but through WebAssembly, not flash player itself. I have a couple things to look into. First, I need to check compatibility with all interactives. Secondly, scaling is a small issue, where it’s not very clear how the size of the div aligns with the actual size of the flash file, and black bars are produced (a possible workaround is just to make the background black like I’ve done, which masks it). Lastly, there is an image with image caching, in which images load incorrectly most of the time with caching. I’ve tested this by disabling the cache in the developer tools, and the images fix. Luckily, though, it’s already been marked as an issue on the github, and I assume it will be fixed soon. 
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