Ethics and Fairness in AI Logo Design

 

For this design, I was instructed to create a logo that represented the ethics in AI. This logo design has been a rollercoaster.

Since AI typical icons are brains, I wanted to create something different since I have already created a brain for the other icon. Therefore, it was best to focus on the ethics side and include AI elements.

 

Here is all the overly complicated designs I created:

 

Honestly, Maddy has been a tremendous help with getting me to simplify my designs and approach the design in different ways.

 

This is the direction we are currently working toward with minor adjustments.

 

 

 

Machine Learning Final

This was the final logo choice for this course. It is a brain with a white circle at a 50% opacity to represent a magnify glass.

 

I was also instructed to create a quick animatic to help JP know how the animation sequence would play out.

COLA Web Refresh

Things have been slowly but surely speeding up for this project. I’m going to help a new CM STA onboard Wednesday morning, and in the meantime I have been going over existing Pages tasks and making sure everything is in order as well as helping Adrian and Rahul with any questions. (I’ve also been making some edits to the spreadsheet since the workflow is still a bit wonky.) We’ve been making sure to add alt text for image components as well as double and triple check that links aren’t dead. Pretty soon, I will start drafting and reviewing client communication emails to be sent out to the relevant contacts, detailing what’s been done and any outstanding issues or suggestions (updating links, removing arcane info, refreshing graphics) we may have.

On a related note, Suloni reached out to Angie and I on making some guidelines for photo editing for CM STAs, who have varying degrees of proficiency in PS. The graphics question is becoming a big one, especially for the Dean’s sites that we’re migrating now; many of them haven’t been touched in years, far less than department or center sites, and so several images and graphics are suboptimal (low res, out of date, wrong size, ugly). For CM STAs who are more web dev-y, the guidelines will be a basic guide to using adjustment layers in Photoshop as well as guidelines on resizing / cropping photos (and when not to). There is also the possibility of more complex graphic refreshes, which may either be completed within the CM STA team or by a design STA.

Photo IDs

I’ve been continuing to complete photo IDs, as well as contribute to a collaborative updated photo ID guideline doc w/ Angie, Megan, Abriella, and Suloni to detail procedures for trickier photo ID situations + client communication.

HIS 315K PPTs

I’ve been working on reformatting powerpoints whenever they come in for Zamora’s HIS 315K class (usually a day or two in advance).

Misc

• I’ve been looking at web dev documentation from Estella and Thuy and copyediting / trying them out myself :~)
• More low priority, but I’ve been editing the animation script to include a list of characters, styles, bgs in each scene

This week, brrrrr

This “cold” front was an absolute godsend. I got to read for about 30 minutes before my shift on the Gearing patio, and it was awesome.

This week, I finally finalized my quiz stinger animation and I worked on revamping the photo ID training, a display for the GRG department, the new PR project, and photo IDs.

 

Photo ID training

 

I’m glad we’re updating the photo ID training and client communication — there’s a lot of situations I run into with them that aren’t necessarily spelled out in the training. Knowing how to handle these comes with time and experience, but it’s always nice to get guidance early on. Here’s one thing Suloni pointed out that I added:

 

The top photo is my original 200×300 edit, before Suloni pointed out that Naval Science faculty (like this man) have medals that should probably be visible in the ID. I went through and updated the other Naval faculty with this format, but it’s a good example of when to not follow the guidelines exactly.

 

Quiz Stinger

 

I also finalized my quiz stinger:

 

GRG Display

 

Project: Display for GRG dept
Client /Prof: GRG department
completion status: Started Sept. 22 2021
staff guidance: Valerie Tran
description/plans: Make a 1920×1080 display advertising a (new?) GRG course on extreme weather events. Use client-provided photos and a previously-used aesthetic and basic layout.
To be completed: ~ Sept 30 2021

Here’s the draft we sent to the client:

 

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: Start migrating data from the old CMS to the new CMS
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

 

Hello, everyone. This past week I’ve just been migrating actual content over from the old CMS to the new CMS. I’ve done my best to maintain a lot of the same structure,  but sometimes it doesn’t translate as well or the original structure wasn’t the best to begin with. I’ve dropped down a few of the pages that I’ve migrated below.

Some of them are identical to the original page while the structures of others are the different.

I have also started the HTML and CSS basic training and it’s pretty interesting. I’ve always wanted get more experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript so the training is a great way to do that and build a foundation. Here is my progress so far:

 

Overall, I’m excited to continue doing this training as well as more content migration tasks.

 

Photo IDs pt. 2

I finally finished the photo IDs I was working on the previous week.