week twenty-seven...
OCTOBER 16th - FEBRUARY 16TH

     this week,  i :

• • • emailed nineteen UT Psychology Lab professors about upgrading their website's UI

    • began migrating university websites from Drupal and WordPress to Pantheon with Dev Team

    • ran tests on Canvas' Tower Tools Dashboard application1 using BrowserStack2

    • met with Stacy to discuss tasks prioritization regarding Texas 
      Domestic Slave Trade Projects' From Slavery to Freedom website

     impediments :

• • • • • when testing audio playback in Canvas' video stream, B-Stack3 :
          

          • omits volume control functionality for mobile browser testing and
            defaults all of its cloud-linked devices to a standard listening volume

          • eliminates audio transmission altogether
            for Samsung devices via its web browsers

        • after testing unsupported web browsers in B-Stack, :
          

          • • UC Browser Turbo4 does not load the Dashboard application's
              main course page; still troubleshooting

            • we're considering local device testing as a work-around

     

    • • • 1 Canvas' Dashboard Application is responsible for UT courses' online video stream and live communication.

          2 BrowserStack is a cloud-based testing platform that is compatible with multiple web browsers across a variety of devices.

          3 B-Stack is a term coined by me as to serve as an abbreviation for BrowserStack. s/o to Gretch, I made fetch happen.

          4 UC Browser Turbo is a web browser
          
          
          

    • Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study  ( AHAA )
      Website in Desktop Dimension

     

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• Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study  ( AHAA )
  Website in Desktop Dimension

   

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• Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study  ( AHAA )
  Website in Desktop Dimension

   

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Summer Marketing

Client: LAITS
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Speedway Banner: FINAL! I can’t wait to see this hanging above Speeday by Gregory Gym in April. Creating this banner was a fun experience because Summer Marketing has never had a banner as a marketing asset, so I had some creative freedom in the overall design–although we did connect it back to the postcard/digital display imagery so the summer campaign appears cohesive.

11×17:

• • • reduction in bottom disclaimer text
    • URL changed to white
    • courses offered changed/removed

Digital displays:

• • • replaced the $500 sticker to match the Spring Postcard
    • right-aligned “TX Residents”
    • still need to decide whether to keep “TX Residents” in color (relative to their color scheme) or in burnt orange.

 

 

Animated Pre-Roll:

• • • changed out courses

 

Minors PDF:

• • • change/removed courses and their respective semsters offered

UTCF Banner 10.2 Montreal

Start: February 12, 2024

To be Completed by: February 29, 2024

Staff Guidance: Leilani, De’sha, & Yazz

Client: UTFC

Description: I was tasked to create a graphic asset for the UTCF project, a banner, using the approved images for this assignment. I had to follow the instructions for the cut-out and pasted them in the illustration file.

First, I had to download the images needed for the banners and cut-out the main subject and later arrange them in the illustration file containing the banners.

   

After receving feedback, I tried out new layouts and refined the banners.

Leading to the latest iterations:

 

The next iterations I created centered around the feedback I received which consisted on:

• Lighten the shadows to avoid making the images look flat
• Get more of the clock’s face & details
• Define the outline if  necessary

 

UTCF Banner 10.4 Montreal

Start: February 12, 2024

To be Completed by: February 29, 2024

Staff Guidance: Leilani, De’sha, & Yazz

Client: UTFC

Description: I was tasked to create a graphic asset for the UTCF project, a banner, using the approved images for this assignment. I had to follow the instructions for the cut-out and pasted them in the illustration file.

I followed the same steps as the previous cutout and created the first iteration.

I received feedback that consisted on:

• Adding thin lines to fill the image tracing outline where is not visible
• Remove the bush attached to the middle building and push the building down
• Switch the order so that the triangle building is in the middle

 

Following the last iterations I created the entire set, but the images for the banners updated and I created a new set of banners with the new images. I also tried out two different layouts.

For the final iterations, we decided to go with the first layout while fixing a couple of things:

• Moving the middle building down so the trees aren’t as prevalent
• Enlarging the buildings slightly

 

 

STA Roster Poster Spring 2024

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Jan 23
Staff Guidance: De’sha

This week I’ve been working on color scheme edits to the poster! We went with this idea:

And I’m starting to update the colors and placeholder vectors, which has me at this stage that I’m still working on:

2024 Early Voting

Start: February 5, 2024

To be Completed by: February 15, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Description: With the upcoming election, new voting PSAs are wanted. I was tasked with creating a new illustration for the voting PSAs in accordance with the previous color scheme (red, white, and blue), fonts, and general design.

 

I started out by sketching different ideas in procreate for the illustration that ranged from voting boxes to voting stickers. Afterward I also created a rough voting PSA with the different sketches and decided to go with something simple and less crowded to not draw too much attention away from the information.

After deciding on the graphics, I finished drawing it out in procreate using the same color palette as the previous graphic assets (red, white, an blue). Then, I incorporated them in the photoshop file I created that had the information and layout of the early voting PSA creating the first couple of iterations.

Once I received feedback, I revised the layout and created another illustration with the same idea but with a few refinements. For the new illustration, I made the back of the voting box be shorter and have an overall different perspective, increased the ballot’s and hand’s size. I created another iteration with the new illustration and new layout.

With new iteration, the date and location needed to be standing out and not look as if it was part of the title, moreover, the illustration was close to the text. As such I created a new design by adding a darker background around the date and location to differentiate it from the rest of the title. I also increased the illustration’s size an moved it to the right to create space between it and the text.

 

 

STA BIO

Start: February 7, 2024

To be Completed By: February 7, 2024

Description: With the new semester, we were tasked to created a bio that showcased who we are and our general information. What had to be included were: our name, pronouns, major + year, specialties, hobbies, and 3 goals for the semester.

 

I created mine in illustrator.