Managing VLabs

Our previous STA who had been managing VLabs has graduated (Valerie, you and your Luna updates are missed) and I have taken her place managing this beast of a project. I’m excited about this role and honored to move up this quickly at LAITS. I hope I can be as encouraging and helpful as she was. There’s about 5-6 of us working part-time on this now, so things will move slower but I hope to keep things organized and moving forward.

The first thing I did was some reorganization of our Basecamp to-dos. Each person has a clean list that will appear in their general to-do’s now. I hope with this system everyone can clearly see their assignments and where they are in the pipeline.

To keep up momentum I’ve trained a couple of STAs on how to review PSDs and they are all doing great!

Suloni has also asked me to create some new beginner and intermediate level trainings for Canvasser and Adobe XD. I’m honestly really excited at the prospect of more management and training-oriented roles as an STA. These tasks are coincidentally matching up well with my coursework this semester in Management and Org Comm. Communication, organization, and improving systems are where I thrive and I look forward at a chance to improve my teaching skills. Senior year and it’s all coming together!

SCHOOL STRESS TIPS: BRAINSTORMING STYLES

There is project coming up where illustrations and a gif need to be made for a text about school stress tips managements. One of the clients ideas was something with statues and shapes, although they may decide something else. For now, these are images I came up with using a collage style format. I will keep coming up with different illustrations and see what the client likes best.

More on HDO 301

I’ve made a lot of progress since my last post on HDO 301 assets. The design parameters for this project included using the HDO branding, including logo and the orange, blue, and dark gray. It also needed to be clear this is UT affiliated, in case any assets are ever shared out of context. For this type of course, since the content is business-adjacent, I decided a professional and simple design style works best. Overall, I’m happy with the final look.

The Powerpoint slides, which I’ve shared before. The more I look at it, the more I like the image I chose of the tower with people walking under it to represent human dimensions of organizations.

To make it easier on the professor I learned how to create Powerpoint templates so they are able to input their content without worrying about formatting.

End card to play at the end of class:

GIF

Lower third card, I was surprised how well Photoshop got the job done animating this:

GIF

Graphics for background sets and screens:

•  https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/wp-admin

• https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-help-documents&document=115
• https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-help-documents&document=18881

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