This week Asmita and I finished adding the featured images to the first four pages of blog posts and formatting them. I then looked over the website to make sure it looked consistent and watched for styling issues.

The rest of the week I spent on trainings.

Accessibility Training

Inaccessible

For an inaccessible website, I looked at the LAITS KB.

The logos at the top failed the contrast check.

The images on the page don’t have alt text.

The tabbing on the page skips over some of the menu elements.

Accessible

For an accessible website, I looked at the BBC News site.

The images on the site have alt text.

When tabbing, I was given an option for Accessibility Help and was able to go through all the menu items in order.

 

Git Training

HTML/CSS Training

WIP

 

French Textbook Icons

Project: French Online Textbook
Client /Prof: Pat Kyle
Completion status: Started November 3, 2021
Staff guidance: Valerie Tran and Suloni Robertson
STA team members: Abriella Corker
Description/plans: Create graphic design assets for the online french textbook on the platform Lingco.
To be completed: Jaurary (End of?)

 

I recently got assigned to this French textbook project after Poonum left the student design program after graduating. Currently we are working on getting icons created for the different components and activities within the online textbook. Today we had our meeting to flush out the details on what we will do for iconography. I sent over some icon style examples I found off the internet and so far Pat and Chad are liking the solid color with line work icons. From there I started doing some rough sketches of what these icon images could be. There is a lot more to do but I started with the easiest most universal images first.

Project: Brand System Design
completion status: in progress
staff guidance/team: Abriella
description/plans: Designing the brand system for Fairy Forest Cafe

Project: CTS Banner Design
completion status: in progress
staff guidance/team: Valerie, Matthew
description/plans: Designing custom banner for the center of Taiwan studies. The client asked for something not stereotypical and more on the contemporary side. Matthew specifically requested a skyscrapers silhouette version.

These are the first draft, still working on some edits per Valerie’s feedback.

draft 2:

Cleaned up the buildings and add some shapes and lines to break up negative spaces

Project: STA Hiring Poster
completion status: in progress
staff guidance/team: De’Sha, Maddy
description/plans: Drafting for STA hiring flyer copy

I finished the formal version of my draft, and I decided to stick with one general QR code instead of individual QR code for each departments because maybe we can have students go through department selection first once they scanned the QR code, whichever department they select will link them to the proper application form. Less cluster on the page that way.

Fall 2021 STA Roster Poster Update

Project: Fall 2021 STA Roster Poster
Client: Internal/LAITS STA Program
Completion Status: Done!
Staff Guidance: Mike Heidenreich
STA Team Members: Cristina (me), & Abriella Corker
Description/Plans: Create this semester’s STA Roster Poster according to specifications.

 

So, last time I updated y’all on this project, I was working on the first version of it. A galaxy iteration, if you recall. However, that version was scrapped because it didn’t really represent the vibe we were going for, so we started working on a new concept: bubbles. Other ideas were thrown at the wall to see what sticked, but bubbles was the real champion here. So, without further ado, here are the drafts that took this version of the poster from nothing, to the most recent (plausibly final version)…

 

Now, we are only waiting for final feedback before the posters get printed, so I’ll keep you posted once that happens…

 

Edit: It happened! We’re done with this project! The final version got approved and you can now find the printed version at various locations of the LAITS offices. Hope y’all liked it 🙂