Wow, I cannot believe that summer is more than halfway done! It is amazing that I still get the opportunity to work at LAITS as a brand new UT graduate. Since I got back from Korea, I have been mainly focusing on helping the new STA’s (Maddy and Abriella) adjust by assigning them basic trainings. This includes photo ID training, .psd/.ai trainings, etc. We also went through orientation, and I loved our ~circle of trust~. It’s great seeing new faces and the strengths that everyone brings to the table. I’ve also been helping Suloni out with the process of picking prospective STA’s by coming up with a writing assignment to see the applicants’ writing style, as well as their abilities to communicate professionally. Here’s a snippet of the instructions that I wrote for the activity:

I have also been working on vlabs like most people. The past week, I assigned myself a few interactives from Lab 10 Sec 4 (click on the image for the .gif to work!!):

And lastly, I updated the STA banner to include our newest members!!

Today I ran through a lot of information with Bridget and Valerie on Cascade and V-Labs. They have been extremely helpful in answering my questions and now it is all a matter of practice and picking up how to do things efficiently. There is a bit of struggle in trying to get things to work and do what I want, because every detail needs to be exact on photoshop and cascade for things to upload and format correctly. However, with every struggle is another step closer to learning how to do things the right way!

Here is a link to the Cascade site that I a working on. It will be updated as the days go on and I continue to practice uploading and editing things.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sta-6/

 

Virtual Labs UI Update

 

Here is an update on the UI design for the Virtual Labs site. Since my last update we have decided to use only one color of the four presented. We went with the teal color as we believed it offered the bet contrast for screen visibility. In addition, Suloni had some notes for me, primarily reemphasizing the lab numbers in the navigation bar and main menu. Below are the changes out into effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I spent some of Friday updating my mockup and prototype of the site. I made sure everything was consistent with the styling of the interactives. This entailed small changes including updating the font size, line height, padding, etc. Below you can see all the pages laid out in the order of their flow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As of now, I have a mockup for the homepage and what a lab section will look like. This week I will focus on designing a couple more pages and assets needed for the new site’s design. This includes a resources page, glossary, credits, and a min-max button. You can click on the homepage below to navigate through the prototype.

 

 

 

Good to be Back

 

Hello! A couple weeks ago I returned from my two week stay in Seoul, Korea, I had so much fun and I am looking forward to hopefully interning there next summer. I’ve been taking Korean courses the past couple semesters in hopes of becoming fluent-ish ( fun fact: my Korean class has been just one floor down from the STA lab each semester I’ve taken it).

 

Anyways, it’s probably no surprise I returned to work with a ton of Virtual Labs stuff to do. I’ve spent the past couple weeks making PSD assets and a few Canvasser interactives here and there. Here are four of the interactives I made PSD assts for that have been made into interactives with the help of Bridget and Olivia.