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Faculty Search Committee PPT Redesign

Remember this? Well, I finally got something to actually do for it. Lorena gets all the credit for the template Ai files, but I did fill in about 6 of these graphs. The hardest part was the differing scales, but Maddy helped me with that.

EDIT: THE GRAPHS FEATURED CONTAINED PRIVATE FERPA DATA AND HAVE BEEN REDACTED.

 

GSD Course Posters

Project: Faculty Search Committee PPT Redesign
Client /Prof: Raquelle Brant
completion status: WIP
staff guidance: Maddy K
STA team members: Lorena, Marissa, Leilani, Luisa, Carrie
description/plans: Designing posters for the German department, some new and some updated. Maddy created a template.
To be completed: Feb 24th

Woohoo, this is my first big logistical/project management task in a while, maybe since photo IDs? When was the last time I got to make a big spreadsheet? Long enough ago that they changed the formatting in google sheets for dropdown options, it’s automatic now instead of having to write it in some hidden data options tab.

As you can see, there’s 26 posters the GSD department would like created. Because of that, the design flairs we played with last time would not be very time efficient (we have about a week to get this done) so Maddy created a great template. For an example, here’s the template + an old version:

And my updated version:

We’re aiming to spend about 30 mins each on these, and around half of them are already assigned/WIP, so I think we’ll make good time.

Week 17

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Week 17

Faculty Search Committee PPT Redesign

Project: FSC PPT Redesign
Client /Prof: Dr. Grayson
Completion status: TBD
Staff guidance: Maddy & Lorena
Description/plans: On the first day, I sourced icons from thenounproject.com for a slide in the PPT. Next, Adrian and I helped redo some of the graphs into the new format/slide template Lorena created. Having a graph template made the process really smooth, so thank you Lorena!!

icons:

  • I tried to choose icons based on the text provided and match the style/line weight as best as I could.

lol no graph pics anymore

Week 16: Thang

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Week 16

Project: TXGDP

Started on: Feb 7, 2022

Completed on: Feb 10, 2022

Staff Guidance: Maddy, and Stacy

Description: For this project, after completing Figma design, I am tasked with translating the design into the WordPress testimonial portion. There are a lot of things that I struggle to make the WordPress portion look like the design. For example, with the top three cards, I need to make one div on top of another div. Moreover, in the bottom cards, I need to make the picture on the same line with the name. This sounds easy but in WordPress, everything is divided into columns, and we need to specify how much space each column will take up. To translate into WordPress, I make it 50 50 and change the flex-grow for the picture and the name.

My figma design: 

My WordPress site 

https://tgdp.org/tgdp-testimonials-2-2/

 

Last Week, I also answered Jolene’s question about the link that directs the user to new tab instead of the one the user is in.

Week LXII

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Week LXII

Yup, I’m center-aligning headers and embeds now.

TGDP Banner 5

A lot of progress here. This is actually the third official draft, just sent out yesterday, after grueling trial and error. Maddy suggested editing the county map, and moving the website blurb to one corner.

Note to self: always check for the plus signs of cut-off text in InDesign. I somehow miss 1 or 2 every draft.

Intermediate Training: Animate Simple Course Graphics

Remember this? Well, now I know what keyframes are!

Honestly, the technical side of Ae is smoother than I expected (at least the basics). What’s really tricky is actual composition. Animation is a really intricate science, and my first draft definitely doesn’t feel ‘right’ in terms of pacing and framing. I talked to Maddy about a blog post I saw which had some storyboarding tips from the Adventure Time artists.

It doesn’t help that I barely storyboarded this one, kinda just figuring out in Ae from the raw materials. I’d be very interested in playing with this kind of thing more and getting the hang of making stuff that feels smooth and balanced.

Week 5

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Week 5

Project: Qualtrics LTI Grade CSV Passback

 

Project: Qualtrics LTI Grade CSV Passback

Client/Prof: LAITS

Started on: February 6, 2023

Completion status: Still in progress

Staff guidance: Chris Pittman, Stacy Vlasits

Description/plans: Feature to download student responses as CSV file

 

This week I started working on my first project at LAITS. Qualtrics LTI is a tool that you might be familiar with if you’ve ever taken a survey or a quiz here at UT. LTIs are application meant to be use as learning and instruction tools, another well known one here at UT is Instapoll. For this project, I was assigned to add a feature for instructor to be able to retrieve a CSV (Comma Separated Values) of a student’s responses after taking a quiz.

 

Qualtrics LTI is built on Laravel PHP Framework which follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. What is all of this? All websites you access that allow you to store information just as a username and password, items in a cart, or make posts have a database and a server behind them. MVC is a layout most commonly used to facilitate the development of these websites. Model represents all of data- here it would be the information to be retrieved such as the student ID, grade, and timestamp. View is the user interface or everything you see and interact with on a website. The controller is what connects the model and the view and the part of the layout that I will add to include this feature.

diagram

 

Week 16

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Week 16

2023 STA Hiring Poster

Project: STA Hiring Poster
Client /Prof: LAITS
Completion status: TBD
Staff guidance: Maddy
Description/plans: On Feb 14, LAITS is having a ‘job fair’ in RLP as part of CoLA’s “Liberal Arts Week”.  This is to advertise the various student positions we have available in the department. My task was to make a 1-page flyer that can be handed out at the job fair (could also be potentially used at future events).

 

I had some very useful design guidance from Maddy during this process. My first draft was mainly setting up the general layout that Mike suggested. Afterward, Maddy helped me with inserting the LAITS colors and text formatting. It was very informative to hear and see some of the design methods that Maddy uses.

 

 

February 9, 2023

Progress made after meeting with Valerie:

  • call to actions
  • discussed having rounder shapes
  • separating the departments and cleaning up the text
  • making it less ‘web-site-y’

           

FINAL POSTER BY VALERIE:

First STA Meeting of Spring ’23

Our first meeting of Spring ’23 was much smaller than Fall’s :,) But it was nice to hear and see what everyone has been up to since Winter Break (feels like so long ago)! It’s always cool to see the graphics everyone has been making, especially if I’ve seen them around campus. I do miss the big meetings, but the smaller one was chill and intimate.