For the UX Design graduate class, we were tasked to interview students as they used the common education platform Canvas. For my group, I designed the personas and journey maps, as well as our final poster project. The content of the pieces was a team effort based on our research.
Canyon Ultimate CFR Disc Aero Road Bike
System Information for US Conversion
For the Systems Engineering Technology 101 project, we were a team of five. Each of us were required to take the lead on one of our five project deliverables.
As the team leader, I was responsible for the schedule, setting meetings for product reviews with our lead systems engineer (professor), making sure all teammembers were on track and assisting them as needed, ensuring that our deliverables were an integrated package with consistency between products, and creating the powerpoint template for our class presentation.
For our project, we were to take a Tour de France bike, the Canyon Ultimate CFR Disc Aero, and define requirements based on information from the customer, our lead systems engineer, and the US Code for bicycles. As systems engineer modelers, we then looked for gaps and problems between our system decomposition and our requirements. We were given information on the Tour de France version of our bike, background information on the Tour de France, and the relevant US Code information. It was necessary to use outside information to determine some information in our decomposition, and we had to include references to that information.
Our team used a shared Excel spreadsheet with a sheet for each deliverable and extra sheets for references and notes. This easily allowed us to pull requirements for the two matrix products we had to deliver.
My product was the Requirements to Decomposition Matrix. We only had to use Level 2 Decomposition for the matrix. We found that the US Code required various reflectors, and a typical Tour de France bike does not include reflectors since that would add weight. Some of the design choices specified by the customer accounted for this code, but some did not, and we pointed out those gaps in our matrix.
To finish out our Python class, we had to complete a group project. My team consisted of three people. I was the group leader and responsible for graphics. Another team member was the programming lead, and our third person concentrated on our final presentation to the class. We were allowed to start with a tutorial and code we found online. It was a basic game that explained the basics of using the Pygame library to set up a game window, how to use a main game loop, and how to set up basic rows of aliens, the player ship, bullets, and handling collisions. Our goal was to offer the user a choice of enemies, make the aliens on level 1 drop down, and add 2 more levels of gameplay. Level 2 would be harder, and Level 3 would feature a “boss” instead of the traditional columns of enemies.
As with most group projects in school, things did not go as planned. Our programmer had big ambitions for Level 3, and spent most of his time programming that. I ended up creating all the art, figuring out how to allow the user to choose which enemies to face, and programming Levels 1 and 2. I also ended up doing the programming to add in my teammate’s Level 3. It’s not pretty code, and I ran out of time to fully implement my menu system into Level 3, but the game does work.
I learned so much by working on this project. I had not really used classes in Python before. I had never used Pygame, and I have never tried to program a game before. Working with the game loop and figuring out how to go between the menu screen, the countdown screen to start off each level, and moving from one level to the next took some trial and error, but we were happy with how our final game worked.
I hope to one day have time to revisit the code and make it cleaner and more efficient.
The characters for the levels were drawn on an iPad in Procreate. I then brought them into Photoshop to size them as needed for the game and save them as .png files. The buttons were created in Photoshop. I used Photoshop’s AI to create the background images.
B.B. Hudspeth’s Collection will step you into the American West with this remarkable collection of Hollywood memorabilia from some of the most legendary Western films and television series.
Happi Pappi® is your one-stop shop for the Classic French Pastry affectionately known as the Beignet. They take the traditional Beignet and add a contemporary flair to it to offering an array of powdered sugar flavors (Regular, Cinnamon, Chocolate, and Lemon). They have expanded their product line to include their own hot cocoa mix.
This is the 4th cat calendar I have created for my retail studio, ChromAddict. This one used many of my existing art pieces combined with fun sayings to create a colorful and fun calendar.
The Historic Huntsville Foundation promotes the preservation of historic sites, buildings, houses, and neighborhoods in Huntsville and Madison County through education, public engagement, and advocacy.
For the UX Design graduate class, we were tasked to interview students as they used the common education platform Canvas. For my group, I designed the personas and journey maps, as well as our final poster project. The content of the pieces was a team effort based on our research.
