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STAs: Student Technology Assistants

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

15 Minutes of History

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15 Minutes of History

 

project: Banner Design for 15 Minutes of History
Client /Prof: Christopher Rose
completion status: Started Oct 24, 2018
staff guidance: Suloni Robertson
STA team members: Estella L Sun
description/plans: Select images from the image folder banner, and create a grid banner. Add 50 pages of text and audio content to the site.
To be completed: September 15th 2018

This week I designed the banner for 15 minutes of History. The Christopher Rose is highly interested in Harry Ransom Center’s black and white website header, so but want the banner to have lighter images than the ones on Harry Ransom Center’s website. I lowered the contrast of the images by applying a gray overlay, and made the background/borders a gradient so it doesn’t look as harsh. I made a black and white version but it doesn’t look as interesting, so I made two colored versions as well with UT secondary colors as squares and rectangles.

 

Plain black and white with different transparencies

Dark to light grey gradient

 

Black to dark grey gradient

 

Psych CE Slide Formatting

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Psych CE Slide Formatting

project: Psych CE Slide Formatting
Client /Prof: Prof. Kirsten Bradbury
completion status: Started Oct. 29th, 2018
staff guidance: Suloni, Emily
STA team members: na
description/plans: Format lecture slides for a 4 part series on self-care
To be completed: Nov. 9, 2018

 

 

Update:

Adding imagery to title slides and supplementary color with graphical elements and bolding.

Qualtrics Grade Passback Logo Design

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Qualtrics Grade Passback Logo Design

project: Qualtrics Grade Passback Logo Design
Client /Prof: LAITS
completion status: Started Oct. 30th, 2018
staff guidance: Suloni, Chad
STA team members: na
description/plans: “The current Qualtrics logo cannot be used since it’s a copyright image owned by Qualtrics. We need a new logo that communicates that this tool gives a grade in the Canvas grade book when a qualtrics survey is completed.”
To be completed: ?

 

Chad’s sketch:

Drafts:

 

Final Logo

With current Qualtrics logo; the uppercase “Q” symbol was discontinued by the brand.

update

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This past week has been hectic!! But it’s been good, because I was able to get to other projects after I was done with the AIH website content portion. I think most of my work has been for Tate and the RUS412 animation scene assets.

I finished the bathroom shelf clutter objects:

bathroom tiles:

And then I trained a project manager STA (Will) on how to do the Photo ID’s. I had to rewrite the instructions for him because we thought he wouldn’t be able to use Photoshop, so Suloni and I had to learn GIMP, but it ended up being too glitchy, so Will offered to use photoshop (hallelujah!!!). yay.

I also am working on another asset for Tate – it’s a knife set (still needs to be colored):