Digital Design
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My Information and Society course required the class to present selected topics on a website in order to foster web writing competencies and hone the ability to create clear and attractive websites for our colleagues to access. I designed a WordPress site that outlined the importance of public libraries to homeless youth, and promoted programs that could help benefit youth in need in a highly accessible and easy to read format. I was able to use these web writing abilities once again in the Publishing Business: Transformations and Opportunities (ISI 6314) course taught by Jada Watson, which required us to promote our individual chapters for our collective book, Moving Through the Grey: Publishing in Action, through the Linking Cultures website. While I did not have the same creative freedom when designing this site, I was again required to create a web page with both functionality and clarity. My web page included clear speech, in-text links, and links to further reading that allowed users to understand what my chapter was about and to easily access the sources cited in my chapter while navigating my page.
Of course, these web design and web writing abilities were applied in my creation of this Capstone website. This site was a culmination of the skills I gained from Information and Society and Publishing Business courses as I was allowed to apply my ability to design a web page and create clear, easy to navigate content with similar in-text links used in my Linking Cultures page.
I have also gained experience in digitally creating informative content that can be used to represent data in fun ways in my future role as a librarian. When working on 'A Network of WItchgrapht and Vizardry", I was in charge of creating some extra infographics with Photoshop in order to supply our audience with further information we retrieved from this large data set. Some of these infographics included "wand graphs" (a magical take on bar graphs) that showed the top ten most common characters in each book in a way that could be easier to read than a network map. I also created a magically-themed Venn diagram for the characters Crabbe and Goyle in an attempt to show how often these characters are shown together. These characters are seen together so often, our Venn diagram more resembled a circle, and I therefore decided to turn it into the Deathly Hallows symbol. I also created an infographic showing how often twins Fred and George Weasley are spotted together, and based this pie chart after the Golden Snitch.
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A wand graph used to show the top ten characters with the most interactions in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
A Deathly Venn diagram to show how often Crabbe and Goyle are together.
A Golden Snitch pie chart
to present how often twins Fred and George are together.
