Teaching – Aaron Yang | UI/UX Designer, User Researcher, Website Developer / Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:51:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 /wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-Logo_AY_-favicon-1-32x32.png Teaching – Aaron Yang | UI/UX Designer, User Researcher, Website Developer / 32 32 204485775 Studio Technology Foundations /art-122-studio-technology-foundations/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 02:39:35 +0000 /?p=1615 This is an introductory-level course for art and graphic design students. Lectures, demonstrations, and class assignments offer students an introduction to core technologies in the visual arts and equip students with a working knowledge of their respective operations and applications. The course introduces applications within the Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premier Pro. Additional topics include inkjet and 3D printing, scanning, laser cutting, establishing an online design/art portfolio.

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Selected Student Projects

Photoshop

The first module of the Studio Technology Foundations course introduces the basic tools and operation of Photoshop. The students were required to create a collage project with the images they collected with a camera or scanner.

Collage project by Carlos Roybal
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Illustrator

In the Illustrator module, the students understand the vector-based design tool. They also learn how to export to the laser cutter and 3D printer. For the course projects, they create design work with image tracing, text distortion, effects, and other essential or advanced tools.

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Animation Projects

This is the final project of the semester. The students were required to create a one-minute animation inspired by their selected artist with at least two programs they have learned. At the end of the semester, we worked with the design foundation course to host a film festival and played all the videos in the conference hall of the building.

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UI/UX Design

This advanced design course serves 8 – 12 senior and graduate students from visual arts and architecture programs. The students adopted a user-centric approach by creating mobile and web apps that followed an iterated process of understanding, ideating, deciding, prototyping, and testing. In the end, they learned a design-thinking-based approach that can help them solve real-world problems.

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Seminar – Design/Build: Museum of the Moment

In this seminar, the students conceptualize, design, and create a virtual museum – the Museum of the Moment. Each group of students developed a conceptual design that connects people in different geological locations or times. I worked with Professor Michael Strand to create the course plan and assignment. During the semester, I instructed the students on graphic and UI/UX design, and helped them implement their designs on a web server.

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This advanced design course has 8 – 12 senior and graduate students from visual arts and architecture programs. The students adopted a user-centric approach by creating mobile and web apps that followed an iterated process of understanding, ideating, deciding, prototyping, and testing. In the end, they learned a design-thinking-based approach that can help them solve real-world problems.

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Student Work:

Student work, SoDAA Center

SoDAA Center

Design Process
Prototype
Student work, purr fect

Purr-fect Pairing

Design Process
Prototype
Student work, help hand

Helping Hand

Design Process
Prototype
Student work, movie night

Movie Knight

Try Prototype
Student work, local exchange

Local Exchange

Design Process
Prototype

Benz Burgers

Design Process
Prototype
Student work

Uplift Giving

Design Process
Prototype
Student work

JoCo Movie

Prototype

CrispFinds

Design Process
Prototype

Other Courses

Studio Technology Foundations

This is an introductory-level course for art and graphic design students that introduces applications within the Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premier Pro. Additional topics include inkjet and 3D printing, scanning, laser cutting, establishing an online design/art portfolio.

View Student Work

Seminar – Design/Build: Museum of the Moment

In this seminar, the students conceptualize, design, and create a virtual museum – the Museum of the Moment. Each group of students developed a conceptual design that connects people in different geological locations or times. I worked with Professor Michael Strand to create the course plan and assignment. During the semester, I instructed the students on graphic and UI/UX design, and helped them implement their designs on a web server.

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]]> 1524 Seminar – Design/Build: Museum of the Moment /seminar-design-build-museum-of-the-moment/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:38:16 +0000 /?p=1543 In this seminar, the students conceptualize, design, and create a virtual museum – the Museum of the Moment. Each group of students developed a conceptual design that connects people in different geological locations or times. The final project is to create a platform where the users can share their moments on a related topic. I worked with Professor Michael Strand to create the course plan and assignment. During the semester, I instructed the students on graphic and UI/UX design and helped them finish the published programs.

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Student Projects

Presm

“Prism is an interactive ever-changing mosaic composed of colors that stand as reflections for individual stories. You are urged to search through and pick a specific color that speaks to you and represents a moment that you encountered today. Each color picked and story associated with it will be a part of a much larger collection that opens a space for more dialogue and reflection.”

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Board Gamers United

“Here we have a way for you to interact with other board gamers through telling your board game stories. We want to know about the board games you play and give you an opportunity to meet others who enjoy board games. To get started hit Play Game.”

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Wanderer’s Pack

“The goal of The Wanderer’s Pack project is to create a discussion and provoke one’s thoughts on dream destinations and how one’s ideas or thoughts of these trips can change in a relatively short amount of time.”

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Momento

“Cultural Memento, the title of the project, serves as a collection of comical images overwritten with text related to the image. These images, known as “memes” (“meme” in singularity), are a popular form of content found throughout all social media platforms. This project holds multiple collections by different curators and, as time goes on, more collections will be added.”

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Want to see more?

Please visit the Museum of the Moment created by the students on this course.

Museum of the Moment

Other Courses

Studio Technology Foundations

This is an introductory-level course for art and graphic design students that introduces applications within the Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premier Pro. Additional topics include inkjet and 3D printing, scanning, laser cutting, establishing an online design/art portfolio.

View Student Work

UI/UX Design

This advanced design course serves 8 – 12 senior and graduate students from visual arts and architecture programs. The students adopted a user-centric approach by creating mobile and web apps that followed an iterated process of understanding, ideating, deciding, prototyping, and testing. In the end, they learned a design-thinking-based approach that can help them solve real-world problems.

View Student Work

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