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WEEK 4

 

Meeting with Clients and Web Dev Team

Happened on: September 26, 2022

  1. Learn a ton about internal components of the website
  2. Learn a ton about what to fix for the website
  3. Learn a ton about how professionals work in the field – identify the problem and manage efficient workflow

 

Training for Web Dev: Git and Github basics

Started on: September 27, 2022
Completed on: September 27, 2022

Description: Learn about the fundamentals of HTML and CSS to create a beautiful layout and design for the website. For this training, I recreate one of the website on COLA about Development Studio.

After editing more and playing around with the CSS, here is my final product.

Training for Web Dev: Web Accessibility

Started on: September 28, 2022
Completed on: September 28, 2022

Description: I learn about UI/UX Design Training with web accessibility for everyone. I learnt that in order to make a good design, it needs to be perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.

UI/UX design Training:

Accessibilities Principles:

  1. Perceivable:Designs should have options for people to perceive in whatever way they are able
  2. Operable:UI designs should be keyboard accessible and designs should not cause seizures
  3. Understandable:Designs should be readable and structured in a way that makes sense
  4. Robust:Designs should be compatible with all devices + assistive technologies

Types of Disabilities:

  1. Permanent: A person has one arm.
  2. Temporary: A person’s arm is injured.
  3. Situational: A person is working from home and has to hold their infant in one arm.

 

Task: Scan the website through WAVE which identifies some of the issues of the design, the layout or some other HTML components. Then, import it into Figma and fix the design.

I chose Cockrell and COLA homepage. Through WAVE, it notified that in some of the sections, the contrast is low. Therefore, I went ahead and added overlays to the images.

 

 

 

Training for Web Dev: History Of Design

Started on: September 29, 2022
Completed on: September 29, 2022

Description: I learn about the history of design with different design movements. At the end of the training, I was asked to follow a Youtube tutorial to apply my understanding in creating design following a movement of my choice. For the tutorial, I choose Make A Seamless Pattern Training. I learnt Photoshop: move objects, resize objects, copy/paste objects and make seamless patterns.

Week 9/21 – 9/27

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Hello! For this week, I mainly focused on one project but here’s my avatar for the STA Banner that I had forgotten to previously showcase! mini me!!

 

 

Apart from that, I have been continuously working on the STA team poster that I started last week.

I had a huge list of questions for this general layout and felt a bit lost surprisingly! Most of the questions entailed:
  • Is the yellow for the rectangles too yellow?
  • I wanted to add a small text in-between the green and yellow rectangles as shown above mentioning something about Mezes hall but I’m unsure how to rephrase it. Or should I completely omit the sentence?
  • Should I make the leaf crests green or leave them as is to not draw too much attention?
  • Is the texture opacity OK?
  • Should I go with the original size shield (top row) or a wider shield (bottom row)?
  • Should I cut everyone out of the original backdrop (top row) or keep the original backdrop (bottom row)?
  • Do the names look better on the outside or within a border? Any better ideas on displaying the names?
  • Should the drop shadow for the shields be darker?
  • Is the color scheme for the shields ok?

 

Thankfully I had a handful of help from De’sha and Maddy as in specifics for the poster. After a little bit of correspondence between them and Mike Heidenreich’s new feedback, I was able to get to this point.

As the week went on, Suloni, Maddy, and De’sha really inspired and pushed me to go further in terms of creating a more dynamic poster design. By focusing on what a “team” really entails and using previous STA poster designs as inspo I finally made it to this point. It’s a rough draft but luckily Maddy helped me out a lot!

Brochure and STA Crest

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Value Institute Brochure

These past two weeks, the focus has mainly been on my assigned service center project, a brochure for the Value Institute at Dell Medical School. So far, I’ve imported all the copy and most of the photos, and I’m working on getting the layout straightened out. This project is a good refresher on publication design, my favorite area of design, so I’ve been enjoying setting type styles and utilizing grids and columns. Here are some spreads:

STA Crest

I’m responsible for designing the poster for the project team STAs. I’ve enjoyed learning more about what they do, and I’ve discovered that they are the ones keeping LAITS classes running for students, quite the important task. Here are a few drafts for the crest.

 

Week 3

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Remote Studios Poster/Logo

Completion status: September 20
STA team members: De’Sha and Leilani
To be completed: TBD

I went and shadowed one of the Remote Studios STAs, Avery, last week and that was really insightful! Since then I’ve been working on the poster/logo for Remote Studios. The logo here is more of a mock up than anything, and this hasn’t really been through a feedback round yet, by the way! The logo I was planning on making a bit more detailed for each camera image. Colors aren’t quite right yet.


 

Redefining Health Care Summit Logo Updates

Completion Status: Started on September 22
Staff Guidance: Maddy
To Be Completed: September 27

In my extra time I’ve been working on changing the text on this logo from “Barcelona 2022” to “Barcelona 2023” and exporting different file types of those — next I’ll be exporting both of these in black and white as well!