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I’ve made my first animation in Adobe After Effects! It is a loading animation for the epic simile database that I’m designing the UI/UX for. I chose a boat to represent the ship in Homer’s Odyssey.
Here is how I envision it in context:
Suloni came back from her trip and suggested that our original roster poster design didn’t reflect the theme of “champions” enough. I agree the theme got lost, so we drafted some new designs that could still use my illustrations.
We mixed a lot of our champions inspiration sources in the final design like laurels, film festival awards, and Olympic rings. Mike really liked posters with a “projecting outward” feel so I incorporated that with the outward projection of the colors and portraits. I added shadows to give depth and the feeling of a spotlight. I really like the outcome!
Hello!
I am Mounika and today is my first day at LAITS as STA. It was nice meeting everyone! We set up all the accounts, read the STA handbook and I was given a tour of all the offices.
I am working on creating my own test site in Cascade and creating a banner in Photoshop.
In the coming days, I will be exploring more about Cascade and Cola Web Editor.
Thanks for reading!
I’m starting to design the UI/UX for Dr. Deborah Beck’s online database of epic similes in Greek literature. We met last week with her to see what she wanted from the site.
She told us the purpose of the site is when somebody is reading and they see a simile that interests them or is relevant to their research, they could go on the site and search the simile to learn more about it from her classification system. For example, you read “Achilles is like a bird” in the Iliad. You could then go to the site and can search for details about that simile.
She also wants users to have a lot of discoverability of the other data; so from a user’s first search they could easily stumble into other similes also in the Iliad, or about Achilles, or birds, etc. The site is mostly for academic use, so users will be scholars and undergrads. She wants the site to feel fun and interactive while you read.
Here is its current design. There is lots of extraneous data and unhelpful search options.
Below are some sketches and a rough Adobe XD layout for now. I am waiting for Dr. Beck to sort through what data she needs on the website and send it over, so until then the content on these drafts is TBD. I’m most excited for paring down the search options and improving the UX for each search category.
Project: Epic Similes Database
Client/Prof: Dr. Deborah Beck
Completion status: beginning
Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran, Chris Pittman
STA team members: Me and Jake Engelberg
Description/plans: Create an online database to host Dr. Beck’s research over epic similies in Greek literature.
To be completed: End of summer
Thuy and I are making the STA poster for the semester. The brief is to fit the theme of “champions” and include ~35 headshots and names of each STA. The first thing I thought of for “champions” was designs of vintage Olympic graphics. Thuy was inspired by retro movie poster/ad designs, so because they both draw from a similar time era our ideas have been easy to mesh.
Right now I’m illustrating pictures to represent each team (audio, graphics, video, project management) inspired by graphics from the Helsinki Olympics. I’m taking the illustrative feeling and colors from the poster, while adding some more ~retro~ style hashmarks and shading. I’m not a big digital illustrator but it’s fun using the tablet! Thuy is working on the typography and we’ll do formatting together.
Inspiration pic:
Project: STA Spring 2020 Poster
Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion status: drafting
Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran
STA team members: me, Thuy Nguyen
Description/plans: Design a poster to showcase all the STA team’s portraits. Theme is “champions”. The design of this poster will carry into the designs for the spring STA presentation.
To be completed: Feb 11th
I had a nice break from school and LAITS, I got to see my cat, knit a lot, and visit Enchanted Rock. I’m back and ready to get working again 🙂
We are updating the formatting for an online French course. Mostly we are making sure section headers are accurate and follow the new styling.
We are using very basic CSS to edit each lesson. This standardization will help the students by improving the clarity of the course and making it look more professional.
