Hiring Poster Edits

This project has been put on hold for a little bit while we gain more information about the type on information needed to be included. These are a view edits I did prior to fix the angle of the megaphone.

 

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.

 

Brochure and Iconography Trainings

This week, I

• did the iconography training
• worked more on the brochure training
• applied edits to Chatter from Maddy
• sent off the draft of the LRC flyer to Todd and his team for feedback
• finalized the new version of the photo ID training
• gave feedback and help on web accessibility and InDesign trainings

 

LRC-visitingscholars-poster-v2

 

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!

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.

 

 

STA Hiring Poster

project: STA Hiring Poster
Client /Prof: STA Department
completion status: Started November 2nd 2021
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Sheryl
description/plans: Design a hiring poster for all of the STA departments
To be completed: N/A

Notes:

For this project, we want to include the design, web development, audio, and video STAs all on one hiring poster.

• Make sure they know each department is a separate application
• Grab the viewer’s attention
• Contains all the important information about the STA program
• Showcase that it is a UT job – branding, Header

 

Things to consider:

• What is the best way to fit all the information on the page?
• What will grab someone’s attention?
• What information NEEDS to be on the poster?

 

Design Evolution:

Version 1: create a distinction between the different department that they can apply to. Different layout?

Version 2: Don’t use lighter versions of the STA colors. Find a new expressive way to get their attention.

Version 3:

 

Version 4: Like the swirl of color. How to adjust the megaphone and the typography.