Who We Are
LAITS: IT and Facilities Director, Joe TenBarge initiated the Student Technology Assistant program in 2004. STAs are UT students who work on a variety of projects in collaboration with UT faculty and LAITS staff members. STAs assist College of Liberal Arts faculty members and administrative staff with print and web design. From building presentations, to creating audio/visual works, and producing online classes in the LAITS film studios, STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for multimedia projects that enhance their teaching and the students learning experience. By the end of their student careers, STAs have portfolios which demonstrate their accrued technical and design skills.
Creative and technically inclined students are appointed as STAs for one year, with the possibility of being rehired as long as they study at the university. Applicants for the program are hired before both long semesters. Interested students may look for postings on Hire-A-Longhorn when positions are available. Positions will have Student Technology Assistant (illustrator or web designer) in the title of the job post.
Faculty & Staff with questions about services, please contact us.
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/laits/contacts.php
Today, I followed the guidelines of the vue.js framework by rendering the routes with paths from named routes instead of string, I unified the alphabetic bar independently of the element rendered, and reuse the specific card elements according to the information required to be displayed.
There’s like a month-ish until this semester ends & so Suloni & I met to discuss what I’ll be up to. I’m going to be busy with a lot of Cascade projects this next month, mostly because I’ve been learning more about and working exclusively on Cascade this semester.
First Up: Creating a new page for the “Paid Graphic Design Services” site. Chloe had been working on this, but I’m going to be compiling information from all the different STA projects and LAITS Websites.
Second Up: Reformatting the STA website.
Third Up: Reformatting the COLA Help Guides (perhaps? maybe so??)
Stay tuned for all the fun things!!
Last Friday I presented on UT Instapoll–specifically my contribution of making the product credible through:
The STA presentation and the presenters did a great job of showcasing the incredible work of the students here at L-A-I-T-S. It was wonderful to be able to see all the amazing projects the other STAs work on, since the design team doesn’t interact with the Video and Audio too much. Miss Lydia Fortuna said it best when she said, “We are so talented, you guys!”
My presentation can be downloaded here: jaclyn_alford_UT Instapoll_redo or viewed below:
project:IC² Institute Website Redesign
Client /Prof: IC² Institute
completion status: Started April 1, 2019
staff guidance: Stacy
STA team members: n/a
description/plans: create page mockups for the IC² Institute using Adobe Xd, as they are trying to narrow down their image and focus.
To be completed:
“IC² Institute is UT Austin’s think tank for exploring innovation and entrepreneurship.”
The aims for the redesign is to simplify the navigation and generally clean up/declutter the pages.
Here is the original look:
And the current mockup: https://xd.adobe.com/view/990a943e-b1ed-4d36-75d1-97bf8fb44a47-ef3b/
Today I continue refactoring the code to loose complexity and dependence.
Also I set the page in a local server, so now it is easier to track the changes.
Learning Persian
I’ve made significant progress on the Learning Persian site (video below). During these past weeks, I’ve added dropdowns and logos and other details. I even learned how to use Terminal to upload images into the server!
Here’s Jac & Kathy’s XD:
And here’s the progress I’ve made so far (link below):
https://learning-persian.la.utexas.edu/persian-of-iran/
Vlabs
I also worked on more Vlab assets:
STA Presentation
I also went to and presented at my first ever STA presentation! All the presentations were super cool, and it was awesome to get to learn about what the video and audio STAs have done. I presented on the topic of Set Designs. Suloni helped a lot with streamlining my keynotes slides, and I loved getting to showcase a little bit of what Design and Coding STAs do. Hopefully, I get to present again next year! Thanks LAITS for this great experience <3
This project has been going on for quite some time. Here are ALL the updates on the CODE Zika Brasil homepage banner sorted by type and date:
March 11 (3/11):
These are the first 3 drafts of the banner.
Theses are the mockups of the first 3 drafts.
March 18 (3/18):
Next 2 drafts; new color, more icons, different title.
Theses are the mockups of the 2 new drafts.
March 19 (3/19)- Part 1:
These are the next 2 drafts; background design’s opacity is lowered.
Theses are mockups of those 2 drafts.
March 19 (3/19) Part 2:
Theses are the adjusted versions of the previous 2 drafts.
These are the mockups of the adjusted 2 drafts.
March 25 (3/25):
Theses are the newer 3 drafts of the banner; white BG, variation in icon alignment, different text colors and position.
Theses are the mockups of the newer 3 drafts.
April 1 (4/1):
I had a meeting with the client and produced the drafts and mockups below.
Even newer drafts of the banner; different languages for the banner, background pattern further faded.
Mockups of the newer linguistically differing banners.
New drafts with different fonts.
Mockups of the new banners of differing fonts.
April (4/5):
Previous drafts but with borders.
