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Week LXXVI

May 23, 2023 By Adrian McKee

Week LXXVI

TGDP 7

This was the main thing I worked on after finishing the biostats logo. I had a list of edits and a suggested layout from the clients, but had trouble making it fit exactly right… the end result was 3 alternative layouts. One closer to the original, one with a larger map, and one with 2 columns. Waiting to hear back which is preferred.

Bio 311D

Project: Bio 311D backdrops
Client /Prof: (?)
completion status: Done
staff guidance: Maddy K
STA team members: Adrian
description/plans: Unit backdrops for Bio
To be completed: Friday 5/26

This was a fun one! While it may have been mostly photo sourcing, it required some bio research (yay!). For making 3 backdrops for different units of a bio course, the professor provided some guidance in the form of example clipart. Also, Maddy provided a nice template she used to make unit 4 (ecology) already.

The first unit was genetics and micro-evolution, which entails individual speciation, heredity, and cell biology. The provided pictures were this:

Final backdrop (a mixture of pictures from stock sites and wikimedia) ended up like this:

The second unit was macroevolution, a little more abstract. The only example graphics were a few phylogeny trees.

The topic itself includes larger evolutionary changes such as evolution of new organs, mass extinctions, adaptive radiation such as the Cambrian explosion, and horizontal gene transfer. I took some liberties and included more paleontological stuff to make it more visually interesting.

Final unit was physiology, the most straightforward.

I found some nice Unsplash photos of plastic organ models, which are more interesting than flat diagrams/clipart and less grisly than real anatomy photos. Perfect.

 

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

CC 303 Update

May 22, 2023 By Luisa Matzner

Online Course Graphics

CC 303 Update for Summer

Project: Online Course Graphics
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Finished
Description: Quick update for an upcoming summer course

I was tasked with a quick update of the CC 303 Classical Mythology class, just switching out the instructor’s name. It’s truly summertime once the online course graphics are back!

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

TXDST Website Ideas

May 22, 2023 By Luisa Matzner

TXDST Web Redesign

Homepage Ideas

Project: TXDST Website Redesign
Client /Prof: TXDST
Completion Status: To be finished fall 2023 semester
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Mocking up ideas for story segment on homepage in Figma

This week, I’ve been working on how to lay out individual stories/articles/blog posts on the site’s homepage. It’s important to strike a balance between giving the user a starting point and not overwhelming the homepage with information. Here are a few of my ideas mocked up:

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

isaiah ~ week 004

May 16, 2023 By Isaiah Thomas

 

Week 4

i am number 4th

MAY 8th – 12th

 

During my fourth week as an STA, I cataloged data from the WordPress Multisite into the LAITS Site Hosting List using Airtable. I also worked on a few more trainings. There are some screenshots of my work below.

 

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023, We are STAs

Week LXXV

May 16, 2023 By Adrian McKee

Week LXXV

Biostats logo

Mostly just worked on this this week! One thing I did was make the vector logo an actual transparent vector. The old version had a lot of opaque fills for the overlapping sections.

It took some creative use of the pathfinder tool to slice it up the right way.

Unfortunately the end result isn’t that impressive at a glance because the goal was to make it visually identical to the old version, but trust me that it took a lot of work.

Also, the animation. This went through a lot of iterations, most of which I didn’t export, but here’s the final (?) one.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/csms_biostats_intro.mp4

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023, We are STAs

edX Logo Resizing

May 15, 2023 By Luisa Matzner

edX Online Courses

Logo Resizing

Project: edX Online Courses
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Week of May 15
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Resizing UT logo to match

After it was brought up that some of the UT logos in the intro sequences weren’t the same size, I was first assigned to resize the logo for the AI in Healthcare course. Then, I was tasked with going through all the intros and marking which had the correct sizing and which needed editing. From there, I’ve started going through the list of the resize ones and working on them bit by bit. While the actual resize is straightforward, fixing the broken links in the After Effects project takes the most amount of time. While all the links should be available to me, many files have changed names and even some layers have been deleted, so it takes an extra bit to get them fixed.

 

Filed Under: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

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