Internship Projects
During the 2025 Fall semester, I worked for the ATEX team under the UMD Division of IT as their creative designer where I would take on any design work for the team.
For this semester, there were several on going tasks, the first being the designing of the Virtual Study Assistant, Educause survey report redesign, followed by weekly screen story generation, one pager and poster template creation, email banners, and callout redesigning.
Virtual Study Assistant
(VSA) (HATCH)
VSA is a chatbot that answers student questions using instructors' ELMS-Canvas course materials to support student learning and engagement. I was tasked to create the face of the VSA chatbot to make it more personable, which is now implemented into specific ELMS-Canvas courses for those instructors that had opted in to use VSA for beta testing. VSA is already an Acronym for a student organization on campus, so I was also tasked with creating a related acronym/name for this assistant.
HATCH Poses
After this variant of "HATCH" was chosen by the team, I was tasked to create more versions of this mascot that for future use.
HATCH Welcome Cards and Banners
EDUCAUSE Rebranding
One of my ATEX team members is in charge of creating an annual Educause survey report that is randomly distributed to around 8000 UMD students and roughly 1000 instructors. Every year, the Division of Information Technology within the UMD administers technology experience surveys developed by Educause, a national nonprofit association centered on the intersection of technology and higher education. My task was to rebrand the report for this upcoming year, creating a cover page, email banner, and one pager template.
(one pager template data will be finalized when the 2025 Educause data is released in early 2026.)
Screen Stories
ATEX is in charge of creating weekly screen stories that showcase DIT semesterly data turned into 15 second fast fact videos that are displayed on all of ESJ's monitors. My job was to help pull data from the Systems & Services report, and turn those data points into statements for screen stories. After pulling data, my team member will finalize the data into statements, and I will go into a shared Canva project to create 15 second videos for each fact.
Once my team member confirms that they meet accessibility requirements, I will create website, Twitter, and Instagram/Facebook sized versions of each screen story.
Fall 2025 Templates
Final Screen Stories
Still Website Versions
These versions don't contain UMD resource links or logos and have no animation.
Square Social Media Versions
Social media versions for Instagram and Facebook are in a squared dimension, while the Twitter version follows similar dimensions to the original screen story versions.
Systems & Services (S&S) Rebranding
Every semester ATEX releases a Systems & Services Report compiling data metrics on academic technology-related systems and services help to amplify innovative teaching, learning, and research practices at UMD. With 194 metrics from 39 data sources, the current report provides a high-level overview of the implementation and uses of our campus's most impactful technologies.
This year, they decided to make the change from updating the report every semester to every year. My ongoing task is to redesign the magazine version of the report, create new callout visuals for the website and magazine, as well as research new accessible layout possibilities while we transfer from Infogram to a new platform.
S&S Magazine Covers
(one more design is in the process of being created and is not currently shown)
S&S Callout Visuals
(these are not all of the current callout redesigns, and are still awaiting team feedback)
S&S Accessible Layout Transfer
These are the first five pages of the Systems & Services magazine, which have been reformatted in Canva to test layout capabilities.
