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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.


Prospective STAs:

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 and Staff:

Faculty & Staff with questions about services, please contact us.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/laits/contacts.php

  • Audio Services: Michael C Heidenreich, Director of Studio Operations & STA Program Coordinator
  • Video Services: Kelly Webster, Video Production Supervisor, Video STA Supervisor
  • Graphic Design & Web Design Services: Suloni Robertson, Art Director / Design & Coding STA Supervisor

Persian Learning Style Documentation

November 14, 2018 By Jaclyn Alford

UPDATE: Adobe Xd

https://xd.adobe.com/view/f7de273a-6969-41da-48ff-635bcb0c2190-81ef/?fullscreen 

Persian Learning Style Documentation

project: Persian Learning Style Documentation
Client /Prof: Anousha
completion status: Started Nov. 5th, 2018
staff guidance: Suloni
STA team members: Kathy, Nick?, Sanika?
description/plans: writeup documenting all styles and effects of all pages of Persian Learning sites
To be completed: Nov. 25th, 2018

 

Appstore Update

 

Provided these notes for edits (these have since been addressed!)

1. What font is this?
mockups use Helvetica

If Helvetica can’t be used, a google font alternative is Lato: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato

2. There should be a bottom border on the header:
border-bottom: 1px solid #d7d7d7 (secondary color) is specified in the style doc

3. Page content needs the same negative space/padding as the home page (whatever padding we agreed on when we sat down to look at the home page, I can’t remember the exact pixel value); this is for consistency and also to give the content some breathing room.

Installation Container:

4. container content should have more padding– 25px padding (all sides within container) is specified in the style doc

5. can install dropdown button change to something cleaner/more modern?
Button should also be right-aligned in the container

6. “Your install succeeded!” sounds off, (kind of sounds like “your install seceded”) language should be “Successfully Installed” or “Install Successful”
and text should be bold and #3c763d

Collapsable Group Container

7. Missing a heading for the Instructions section. Instructions Heading should be same style as Installation Heading with bottom padding–20px

8. Collapsable Group container should be same width as installation container

9. Collapsable Group title text should be black and bolded.

10. Collapsable Group content text should have more padding– 25px padding (all sides within container).

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

AIH banner mock-up’s

November 14, 2018 By Chloe Kim

I also finally got a chance to dive into the AIH banner designs, and here are some of the mock up’s I came up with. The noun-project icons and the colors and the text are all interchangeable, but I think overall, I like the navy background with the strips going diagonal the best.

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

Finished the Workday Photo IDs and Computer Support Pages

November 14, 2018 By Valerie Tran

I finished the Workday photo IDs!!!! Hooray!!!

 

Look at them! They’re doneeeee!!!

 

After finishing all these IDs, I was briefed by Suloni and Tate on an upcoming project for the UT Computer Support page. What I will be doing is basically making instructions/guides/directions to creating a ticket for the contact portion of the UT ServiceNow website. Here’s my progress so far!

Ooh a drop shadow! She’s FANCY.

 

This is all for this shift! :^)

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

photo ID dump!

November 14, 2018 By Chloe Kim

After the meeting, I worked on a BUNCH of photo ID’s:

       

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

blog update, whats ~new~

November 14, 2018 By Chloe Kim

I feel like I haven’t done a whole lot this past week, but I was pretty excited to learn Canvassar from Nick (& Estella) – mainly because I’ve heard so much about it, but never got to see what it actually is and how it works. It’s been kind of confusing, but it’s mainly because my account wasn’t set up right and I couldn’t follow along during the tutorial. Now it’s finally good to go, so I just have to toy around with Canvassar a little bit to feel more comfortable with it!

Othe than that, I worked on more RUS412 illustrations/ assets:

~sneeze illustration~

~animation shelf assets~

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

More Persian

November 14, 2018 By Nick Lavigne

More Persian

 

I’ve been working on getting the “accordions” to work with Persian site and Stacy thought it would be a good learning experience to implement it myself with javascript.

What I have so far is a script that essentially the hidden elements by changing their display from “none” to “block”.I then added this to the wordpress site using wp_enqueue_script to attach it to all single_functions.php

The result so far is a little jarring but eventually I will add animations and fix the layout so that it looks better.

Here’s the link! https://learning-persian.la.utexas.edu/conversations-of-iran-today/function/greetings/

 

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring, We are STAs

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