PSY Labs Site NEW: TIES Lab Home Banner

Project: TIES Lab Home Banner
Client: Dr. Adela Timmons
Completion Status: In Progress…
Staff Guidance: Maddy Kaniewski
STA Team Members: Cristina (c’est moi)
Description/Plans: To design a banner that projects the lab’s focus on couples, kids, and family, as well as their mission of tying technology with family & relationships.

 

Some of the guidelines I got from the creative brief were as follows:

– Lab focus is on couples, kids, and family (visit the old lab site to get a better grasp on what the lab is about)
– Would like to incorporate technology + family & relationships
– No particular design style specified, feel free to get creative with what you think would work best for this lab

 

So taking that into account, I decided to start working on a collage-like banner, partly based on the amount of pictures they used in the old lab site (specially compared to the minimal graphics and illustrations used). So after drafting and getting some feedback, these are some mockups I made to send over to our client seeking for feedback and/or approval.

 

French PowerPoint

Sourcing image for Professor Fawaz.

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Dutch Poster

Wrapped up Dutch poster last week, quite a long journey but I truly learned a lot about client communication from this project.

Dana Center: Strategic Direction Updates – 4/6/22

This past week, I have primarily been working on editing the strategic direction infographics to fit both the client requests as well as keeping in mind design principles.

Graphic 1

After meeting last week, Suloni and I discussed better ways to convey all the information so that each section is balanced without being too busy. I came up with three versions that experimented with adding another color in it and reorganizing some ideas:

Ultimately, Suloni decided that the third one (where What We Do is on top and not on the side) may work the best. She requested for me to fix the bullet points so that are more center aligned. It ended up looking like this:

We have sent over this current version to the client, and will see what they think about it/what changes they want made.

Graphic 2

As per last week, the second graphic looked like this:

It didn’t quite match the new version of the the first graphic, so I have revised it to try and match the style better.

I will update this further once I get more feedback on this particular one. Currently I am thinking the “Areas of Work” could potentially be shortened but I am not sure.

Graphic 3

For the third graphic, I began by using image trace to on a previous version of the graphic to get basic silhouettes. I then edited the silhouettes to be more readable.

The original one looked like this:

In my rendition, I ended up redoing quite a bit of the children’s design to better fit the adults. Additionally, I resized them, as the children were initially proportionally too small compared to the adults.

 

The next step was to add the bottom text in (we have not received the top text yet). I spoke with Suloni about various ways to do this, and ended up deciding on two options:

The main difference between these two is the arrows on the top. Ultimately, we decided on using the arrows for now. My next step is to figure out how to implement color using the UT brand colors. My current draft looks like this:

I am not certain if have so much color may clash with the other two graphics. However, I do like how it feels like a colorful, educational piece. I went from red to blue to try and convey a sense of growth and maturity (especially since blue is often used to denote honor and stability). I will see what Suloni thinks and then move on from there!

UTinContext WordPress Web Development

Hello, long time no see!

It’s been a while since I update my blog (since before last Summer-2021, before I leave LAITS for my internship). I’ve been working here still during Fall 2021 and this Spring 2022, but because of my limited hours (I currently work 5 hours per week as an STA), I was exempted from weekly meetings and blog updates. I have a little bit of downtime today, so I decided to update my blog.

I’ve been working on the mockup and Web Development for UTinContext with Estella for the past couple of months. This is my first time using WordPress, so it was a little bit of a learning curve, but it’s not too bad. I’m having fun with the site so far.

Below are some of my mockups.

First Iteration:

Second Iteration:

Third Iteration:

Fourth Iteration:

The client liked the final iteration with the red, so that’s what we went with. I worked with Estella in developing the site on WordPress after. It was my first time working with WP, but it’s not too bad and Estella was super helpful (sorry for bothering you every 20m Estella!). I had some hiccups of not being to to add a JS file (to allow for more dynamic styling, especially with responsiveness), but Estella was able to help me add a JS file which makes it much easier to style the page.

Here’s the link to the site: https://utincontext.la.utexas.edu/