This week, I worked a little bit after being gone for a week. Here are a few pics from my vacation 🙂
Once I got back, Thursday, I worked on LPL design, and a bit on KB.
On Friday, I got set up on Grav with Maddy’s help. I’m continuing to try to sort out an issue where custom CSS isn’t updating on my site. Per Maddy’s advice, I deleted and redownloaded MAMP, still running into the same thing though.. hoping to get this fixed by next week.
Since the course is about introductory data structures and algorithms. I thought it would be convenient to use actual coding references as the logo. Here are a few draft ideas, but we decided that the stack was the strongest.
To make it a more dynamic logo, we added additional stacks. This is the final logo.
I also got the opportunity to create the animatic for the animation for this logo. For the stack algorithm, the boxes are added and removed from the top of the stack. Here are the animatics I created.
Hello. This week, I worked on PSY 12oR course graphics and continued with Grav documentation.
PSY 120R is a course taught by Professor James P. Curley on R Programming for Behavioral Sciences. I was given some examples of a related course graphic design from earlier, and I was told to make a design that looked similar but not the same. R is a language used for statistical analysis, so I took inspiration from some of the R interface and the output, then created the first design (in teal) below.
After communicating with Poonum, she suggested I reduce the busy-ness of the design and make it more monochrome like the earlier course. She also suggested I take a more literal approach like the scatterplot below. With these edits in mind, I made the final design as follows and added grid lines later.
Regarding Grav, earlier in the week I continued to face issues with the sandbox Ruben gave me to work in. I would make a few edits, then the sandbox would become overwhelmed and produce error pages. After speaking to Ruben, I think I might have been doing something the sandbox could not handle in the menu editor. Now, I feel like I can probably continue with no issues, and I will focus on process documentation and creating the “Small Banner Design” that was mocked up on Figma.
Also, we wrapped up the preliminary round of OCILL Turkish II edits, so that’s exciting! Poonum and Angie really created an organized method of question-asking and process documentation. I remember the beginning of this project and being nervous about completing the OCILL edits before the end of summer, but I think it’s looking like we will finish it by the end of July or by early August.
Also also, I met up with Abriella yesterday and it was the first time I had ever intentionally seen another STA. We sat in Barton Creek and talked about work. Nice. It was very nice meeting her, and it’s weird to think my time as an STA has occurred entirely through a pandemic.
Hiiiiii blög sorry I’ve been MIA, been really busy with this huge project we are calling OCILL. For this project, we are transferring quizzes to Canvas from HTML files that use a quiz-making software called OCILL for two courses – Intensive Turkish 1 and Intensive Turkish 2. We’re using this spreadsheet to track progress and get feedback from Dr. Okur, the professor:
So we’re taking a page that looks like this: 
And turning it into this:
I’ve been working on this nonstop for 2 weeks? 3 weeks? I’m not sure, time isn’t real. We’ve completely finished our first round, now just waiting on Dr. Okur to review so we can make edits. This assignment needs to be done by the start of the school year, but I think we’re well on track – could be done as early as this Friday!
I also got an email back from our clients for the Dell Medical School project, and they’d like for me to create graphic flowchart based on a drawing they provided, so I’ll try to spend some time working on that later this week. Updates to follow 🙂
Howdy friends, and welcome to the OCILL Update Pt.2: Electric Boogaloo.
But before I start talking about OCILL, I would like to dedicate this post to my 200th day of work as an STA! Wuwuwuwu! (ﾉ＾▽＾)ﾉ☆ﾟ. * ･ ｡ﾟI have ‘earned so much from my time here, and I couldn’t have hoped for a better first job to have.
Now, let’s talk about OCILL… This week we started working on the second part of the Turkish Course we’ve been transferring to Canvas: “Intensive Turkish II OCILL Transfer.” We had a brief pause on it at the end of last week as we finished the first part of the course transfer, and got our work approved. But now we are back and better than ever. However, I did notice that we were missing some of the content that we need to include in each of the activities. But I guess that’s something that will be fixed soon. For now, we just have to work on it, however we can, and hope the professor adds the rest of the info soon.
I was given the mini project of creating an informal identity logo for the Humanities Institute. The logo was one given to me from their formal logo. The top draft is what the client approved of and the bottom draft is the edits I had to make to get it to look as close to the client’s approval as possible. It’s a little difficult because no matter how dark you make it Cascade will turn it to a lighter gray but I think I got it close enough.
