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AI Logo Design

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AI Logo Design

Last week I began working on the logo design training. I wanted to create a logo for my brand that I could you for my website.

Main Roadblocks:

  • Trying to figure what my brand is? Who am I? What purpose will this logo hold?
  • Not making the design overly complicated since logos can be small.
  • Typography… how do you choose which font is best for a logo?

Deciding Factors:

  • Rose or the crown… not both
  • Typography… try to choose a cohesive font.

 

 

web refresh update~

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As of last Monday evening, the redesigned Dean’s sites are live! You can view them at the same URL as before. Everyone involved has expressed their satisfaction and excitement w/ the sites, so I was very happy to be part of this effort. Here are a couple screenshots.

 

Now that that’s finished, and pending any help / edit requests (which usually go to Public Affairs anyway), the COLA refresh team has started finding and reaching out to contacts from all the units in COLA (this includes departments, centers, institutes, research units, programs, and so forth). There are over a hundred of them, so it’s a pretty big undertaking that requires a bit of back and forth.

 

Austin Design Week 2021

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Hi blog, it’s been a bit.

 

Yesterday, I spent part of my usual shift time at an Austin Design Week event with Maddy and Valerie, about web accessibility at an office called Microassist near Shoal Creek. This office specializes in providing trainings to public and private organizations as well as running accessibility checks. It’s the official tech training firm for the State of Texas as well as certain federal offices.

 

We listened to their Lead Accessibility Analyst give a presentation on what web accessibility is & why it matters. He kept it brief and to the point, but some points that stuck with me:

 

  • Maintaining accessibility is the right thing to do. But for public (and private!) organizations, compliance is a big issue as well.
  • The web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) are exactly just that… guidelines. In a manner of speaking, they are the bare minimum.
  • It’s imperative that accessibility be a continual point of reference throughout the development process (this means including designers, web and software developers, quality assurance specialists, and everyone else involved in the conversation). It’s much, much easier to resolve issues as you go rather than retroactively “correct” things.
  • Never make visual cues the sole means of conveying information.

Anyway, all in all very interesting and inspiring event. More blog posts to come soon!

Week 11

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Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Final Touches
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

Hey everyone. A quick update on the projects I’ve been working on. I’ve mostly just been fixing broken/internal links whenever they are found and linking it to the correct site. As of now I think the Dean’s Office pages are live!

Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
Completion Status: Started August 23, 2021
Staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Asmita, Marianne, Angie, Abriella
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

 

Last week, along with Marianne and Asmita, I’ve been finding alt text for images in the Blanton website. This was a little cumbersome, as sometimes you had to manually look for 1 image within 1400 others so it definitely was a process.