I worked on a bunch of photo IDs during my first week back at work.
Also picked up a help request about how to embed Box video in cascade news post. Ingrid and Suloni suggested that we should move documentation over to the main cascade help guide page since the client couldn’t locate it, so I copied the documentation over and updated a few of the screenshots.
I made a cascade site for a new Lab under the umbrella of Slavic Studies, they are still working on the permanent name but it is currently called GIMI(Global Internet, Media and (Dis)Information Lab).
This was my first time setting up a Cascade site, but Andre’s documentation made the process easy breezy lemon squeezy.
For the Figma training Maddy wrote, I decided to make a portfolio site prototype. This is my wireframe draft:
I wanted to include the overlay effects on the homepage at first but after discussing with Maddy, Valerie, and other STAs, I realized it wasn’t the most effective way to display my projects because the page looked crowded and messy.
so I went with the vertical scroll style and this is what it looks like right now: link
This activity came from a request sent through our LAITS system. A client from the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies of the school of Liberal Arts asked for a banner change on their Hemispheres page: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/hemispheres/. This request was very straight forward. So, when assigned to it I knew there were only two things I needed to do. First, log into Cascade to change their old banner to the new one the client provided. And second, send an email back to the client (cc’ing Suloni, Valerie and Maddy) letting her know that the banner had been updated. So that is exactly what I did! This is what the updated banner looked like:
However, we noticed that the green box was covering some of the text. So I wrote a new email to the client to offer my services in fixing this issue. But it turned out the client preferred fixing it herself. This is what the banner looks like now:
As I have mentioned before, the point of this activity was to remake a presentation made by Dr. Robert Olwell for his HIS 315K course and place it in a new LAITS approved template to unify all of the presentations into a new and optimized format.
Last time I posted on this subject I was working on the first one of these remakes specifically for the presentation titled “Old Spain to New Spain”. Since then, I have worked on many more of these presentations. So here’s a complete list of all the HIS 315K presentations I worked on:
Though at first it seemed simple enough to just transfer the information from the professor’s past format into the new template Maddy prepared, working on these presentations was a great experience because of the following three things:
1. I got to learn more about the visual aspects of layout and animations in a Power Point presentation.
2. I experienced flexibility in project management though the new changes that were introduced mid-project. For instance, the change of template from the first presentation I worked on to the next one. Or when we decided not to follow the professor’s format where some images were blocking text when downloaded as a pdf (due to the lack of image appearing/disappearing animations).
3. This project was very feedback and collaboration-heavy, since we had to go through two different rounds of review before posting the finalized presentations. So what I learned from this was how to take feedback from and give feedback to my peer STAs.
All in all a fun and useful experience 🙂
Above are my color palette and the compositional layout of the poster I was planning to make. Here is how it came out with Megan’s suggested edit of bringing down the body text size. I went from 16pt to 14pt which I think helped in creating more hierarchy.
