Distance Education Team:Graphic Design Department

Graphic Designer: Juan C. Peña

Standard Promotions Design

Standard Promotions Design

• This section includes the design for standard format publications which may include but is not limited to:– Brochures /Pamphlets– Promotional/informational sheets– Post Cards– E-mail “Teasers”– Stationary.

• Some publications are done in collaboration with other departments.

Brochures /Pamphlets

Promotional / Seasonal

Promotional / Seasonal

Promotional / Seasonal

Promotional / Seasonal

Promotional / Seasonal

Promotional / Seasonal

Promotional / Seasonal

Project Cover

Minor Tweaks

Minor Tweaks are modifications that most people won’t notice unless they are paying attention. They are made in order to improve the look of certain elements. This one was done to integrate the Nacho character into the Mayagüez 2010 flyer.

Course Graphic Design

Course Graphic Design

• This process includes but its not limited to:– Banners– Illustrations– Image Manipulation– Animations, Editing(images, videos, sounds as

requested by the Instructional Designers)– Template Design

• It is intended for this products to be optimized for online distrubution with little or no quality loss in the process.

Custom Built Course Banners

PowerPoint Templates

PowerPoint TemplatesOffice Space initial layout for Copyrights Presentation

Online Courses and Graphic Design

This was a presentation made for faculty trainings. It explains the importance of using visual comunication to its fullest in an online course.

Illustrations / Images

Illustrations / Images

Web Design and Development Projects

Web Design and Development Projects

• All Research and Development for the Web Pages and other projects are done through on site by Juan C. Peña. – Programming done in HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, some

PHP, Actionscript or any other programming language needed to get the end result.

– Layouts are usually planned, sketched out, translated to a design concept in Illustrator or Photoshop(as needed), then sectioned and programmed using Dreamweaver before being tested on multiple browsers to ensure fully or acceptable cross browser compatibility.

– In some cases some code may come from donors or developed based on research made.

Alternative Seasonal Headers

This was a special project for the previous version of the webpage in which the banner would change to match the season(by date).

It was later scrapped.

Blackboard Login Custom Design

This project was coordinated in strong collaboration with the Blackboard administrator(Pedro Nazario) to best meet the needs of our team and our students.

Blackboard Interfase DesignInitial

In Sinc with Login Design

Simple – Bland Design

Developping Area

The ligntning represents the power of knowledge and technologyAlso represents light in the darkness (illumination also known as,

illustration , being well informed, educated, well studied)

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This project was coordinated in strong collaboration with the Blackboard administrator(Pedro Nazario) to best meet the needs of our team and students.

Distance Education Web PageInitial Distance Education

This custom version of the page has some elements that are especially designed for the online education users and team and students.

Distance Education Web Page1. Icon Based Menu2. Special popup (closeable – contains

the survey, It Cannot Be Blocked) 3. Less Cluttered Interface.4. Quick access icons for the basic

areas.5. Bulletin Board (with

announcements)6. Facebook and Testimonials 7. Custom Banner to visually tell the

user this is the Online Ed. Page.8. Timer which displays the beginning

of next term.

• Icons are interactive and will pop up or move to ensure the user they are active

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Online Bulletin BoardThis page presents the user with the same announcements they would be presented on campus it serves a dual purpose of online publishing the announcements and ease of access.

The images are the same used on the printed promotional flyers.

Browser Compatibility TestThis is a Browser compatibility Page It will check for the most commonly used plug-ins and scripts needed for a user to properly access the blackboard educational platform and complete his/her tasks.

The original code for the test was kindly provided by Shannon Meisenehimer, University of Central Missouri and adapted to fit the design and needs of this Distance Education Department.

This project was strongly studied and several scripts were analyzed to pick the best possible set for the task. Mr. Meisenehimer was kind enough to provide me with the latest most up to date version of the code.

Online Tutorials

This part of the page contains the lists of tutorials made for our staff and students. It marks each link for the type(format) of tutorial.

Support CenterThis Support ticket center is based on Osticket which is an open source platform. It has been Aesthetically customized to meet our needs and has some minor tweaks to the source code.

It helps to better manage the needs of our students and staff while keeping track of the progress of each particular case.

This project was coordinated in strong collaboration with the Blackboard administrator(Pedro Nazario) to best meet the needs of our team.

Interactive Map

Flash Based Interactive map of National University College : Bayamon (also has a PPT of the main map (not the interactions))

In it’s initial screen it also displays the current location of the Distance Education Department.

It includes a Floor by floor layout of the main building with some important features highlighted. It has “walk through” photos of the Labs.

This special project is in need of revision and expansion.

Interactive Map

Newsletter EADTable Based E-mail Recieved Information Links to Joomla Based Web Newsletter

Keeps Design look & Feel

Interface Icons

Interface Icons

New Technology

NUC-Online FacebookThis Facebook page was made and mantained to keep close contact with our students and to take advantage of the promotional aspects of the facebook community.

Formatting and uploading of the promotional information is uploaded to this page to inform the our community.

It’s being maintained by our Blackboard Administrator with design help by our Graphic designer.

Mobile DevelopmentThe original results from the research and development part of the Mobile Based Adaptation for the web page. This concept has been tested on an iPhone 3GS and some minor issues are being addressed. The original base code will be integrated on the joomla based module to match the design. This project is still under development. With the new page design some other tweaks may be made to the design.

NUC Online Webpage Migration

Steps are being taken to migrate our webpage from the current CMS to a joomla CMS to keep the page and content more manageable. This will also aid in the re-design process as the content will be independent of the page layout.

This process will also allow the mobile project to be implemented at a faster pace making out page accessible and readable through mobile devices.

Incoming Transmission…More Research and Development is underfoot.

We are working on more projects and more technology.

Functional designs and better interfaces.

We are researching ways to implement these technology with improved reliability and functionality.

We will boldly go where no one has gone before…