Finally finished my cascade training!! Whew! It was fun and goofy hehe.

Link to my webiste: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-2/

Yesterday, I made my This Is Democracy podcast cover rough drafts. I went with a flat-design, cute, minimal looking cover. I also tried to use bolder colors and text to capture the listeners’ attentions (going with the whole youthful and bright tone that was requested). Looking back, I could’ve added more definition into the wigs to make it more obvious that they’re even wearing wigs.

Today, I started working on my cascade site; added the banner, some events, and made arbitrary body content.

I also worked on editing COLA IDs after Chloe walked through the process with me; here’s one example:

Hopefully, I can start working on the RUS412 assignments next week and continue to complete basic trainings.

Russian 412 PPT

 

As an update of the old Russian PPT banner, I changed the squirrels to rabbits and added mushrooms along the sides. To make the banner more interesting, cobblestone design was added with the addition of some grass along the lines. The textures and drop shadows were all kept the same as the old versions for consistency, and the basic shapes of rabbits and mushrooms are masked with the same textures as well.

 

                   

 

Because the detailed cobblestone and mushroom design does not fit the other banners in the past, I had to do some redesigns. Instead of using the cobblestones to make the design more intricate, I used some organic swirls with plant motifs. The swirls consists of a thick, base one that runs throughout the banner to set the shape of the path for the rabbits to sit on, and a much more delicate one that sort of frames the banner and make it more balanced. To Tate’s suggestion, I also changed one of the bunnies to a standup, profile position. The updated bunny banner looks much more cohesive with the past squirrel and bird banners, and I am very happy with how it turned out at the end, but I do miss the chubby mushrooms ( ´･∀･｀)

Updated the “This is Democracy” graphic to have more wig-like looking wigs:

 

(Mostly) finished Cascade training:

The staff aren’t showing up on the Staff List even though I’ve assigned them to my page through the database… I think there might be some lag time?

Nations of Immigrants Initial Mockups

I’ve been mainly working on making UI mockups for the Nation of Immigrants website project.

After our first meeting with Stacy about the project, Jac and I made some rough thumbnail sketches.

We were given really rough sketches (as seen below).

 

 

From there, we roughly thumbnailed some ideas on a whiteboard together!

 

 

From there, we started making mockups.

Here are some iterations for a potential homepage. It’s very clean and minimalistic.

 

 

Here’s the one we settled on for now! There are no visual elements… It’s a very text heavy site.

 

 

I worked on making the Lesson Plan and Timeline page. These are very quick mockups, and hopefully after we develop ideas further, we can expand on these ideas, find a clear direction the clients will be happy with, work on branding, and polish + refine more.

 

 

I’ve been working with Jac on this, and she worked on the item page, which I made a couple iterations of today.

 

In the midst of revising all of TBH we found another important problem: untracked Flash files that we never remade! Since I am the last ‘child of Canvasser’ left in the office it is my duty to remake them and link them to the main site. These were fairly simple to make now that I have more experience with this tool.

One of them was just a basic frame with links to pages with more information. This means fixing more links! 

The other one was a little more complicated. It has a flashy intro (no pun intended) with a shovel moving around. The letters in the title are supposed to show when the shovel hovers above them. Despite messing around with it for like an hour I had trouble replicating it… so I just dumped the whole thing. Now the shovel still moves around but no fancy layering. The two versions are shown below, I think the new one is not too bad.

The rest of the Digging interactive was pretty straightforward. Pic shown below.