Making Signs

I had some free time yesterday to make this guy in Photoshop with the Timeline tool.  🙂

I got the chance to design signage for LAITS Computer Support. Here’s my draft + final based off what was requested. The final sign will be 34″ x 10″ and be placed on their door in Parlin Hall. The font I used, Roboto Condensed, is so geometric. See the way the uppercase S lines up with the top of the lowercase u? Roboto isn’t a bad font but Open Sans will always have my heart for sans-serif body typefaces.

First draft:

Final draft, with larger text to fill up the white space:

Suloni asked if I could make a simple style guide for future signage. This is a rough draft of it. The Computer Support signage is pretty simple so there was no need to make it long. I did want to include examples because I’m a visual learner and I’m sure most design STAs looking at it in the future will be too.

VLabs Updates

I spent most of last week working on a looot of PSDs for VLabs.

I’ve noticed the lab activity interactives at the end of each lab are more complicated than other sections, so I’m looking forward to getting feedback since they’re each unique. A lot of them include graphs, calculations, and measuring so I did what I could to stick to style guide. On many graphs a dot must be placed in the correct location for the user to pass, so I’d like to see how assembling interactives like these work in Canvasser (below).

Speaking of Canvasser, it can sometimes be a challenge, but I feel like this interactive below came out well in terms of toggling between “shared with humans” and “unique features.” Originally the user would have to double click the links for the popup to show because the on/off toggle was getting confused up behind the scenes. We were able to finesse the property options under Click/Touch Event ID to work.

Next up is adding videos into the HTML on the Grav site.

I’m about to start my Cascade test site, and I’m not sure what to expect since at first glance it seems different from WordPress or any other CMS I’ve used before. Other than that I’ve been learning to edit Photo IDs and completed lots of orientation work.

Starting out

Hello world! I’m Maddy, and I’m in my fourth year of studying advertising. A little about me, I’m from DFW, I think all cats are queens, and I like to DJ for fun. I also have a good amount of experience in design (not to brag but I was commissioned for my first logo design in 6th grade… yes it was for my dad), which is what drew me to LAITS and being a design + coding STA in the first place.

This is about to be my third full week as an STA and I’m really enjoying it. Everyone has been so helpful and kind throughout my whole onboarding process and the work is enjoyable too.

The major project this summer is creating all 12 units of Vlabs interactives for the physical anthropology course. While I’m sure it’ll start getting tedious coloring in monkey bones all day, it’s been nice finding a good workflow and getting comfy with the Vlabs style guide.

Here’s a screenshot of one interactive:

This was another I made, which ended up being a couple hundred layers after creating the graph and all the interactive elements. It’s definitely like a puzzle remaking an interactive. I recreate each piece of the original, while thinking of small ways to improve its layout, as well as staying thoughtful of how the next person will have to animate it in Canvasser.

So far so good at LAITS! I’ll check in again soon.

Thank you Maddy:-)

Last day post ✧⁺⸜(●˙▾˙●)⸝⁺✧

Hellwowow guys~ It has truly been a wonderful experience working as an STA, and I have really enjoyed my time here. Suloni has been such a great supervisor and a friend to me; thank you so much for helping me throughout my time here! I looked forward to work every day because of the great people and the friendly work environment I found here. Because of you all, VLabs has been a great experience for me. I will miss everyone here dearly, and I hope we can see each other again soon!

Moving forward, I will continue pursuing my career in design with Hypergiant this summer in Austin! Let me know if you guys want to hang out this summer because I will still be around~

Thank you guys for everything.

Cheers,

Duo