Anica Jovanova: Web Designer and Technical Communicator

Portfolio | (X)HTML/CSS

Conference Website

Designed while working for IPRO (Interprofessional Projects Program) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

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This is a website for an annual conference on interprofessional education programs held at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The main purpose of the website is to offer important conference information as well as for attendee registration.

Skills/technology used in this creation:

• information architecture (site organization)
• Photoshop (graphical elements)
• XHTML (structural markup)
• CSS (visual presentation)

"Sts Kirili i Metodij" Macedonian Orthodox Church

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This was a project where I went through the entire web creation process myself – from gathering content, to design, to development. There were 3 goals I wanted to accomplished for this website:

1. make it web-standards compliant
2. give it a spiritual look and feel
3. present information in a well-orginized way

Skills/technology used in this creation:

• information architecture (site organization)
• Photoshop (graphical elements)
• XHTML (structural markup)
• CSS (visual presentation)
• Flash (slideshow)

IPRO Proposal Process System

Designed while working for IPRO (Interprofessional Projects Program) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

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The IPRO Proposal Process is an online system that the Interprofessional Program at IIT implemented in order to automate the proposal process for new IPRO courses. The target audience for using this system are IIT affiliates (faculty, staff and students). It allows users to login, create, save and edit proposal as well as track the status of the submitted entry. The system also gives users an opportunity to view the proposals submitted by others. The committe review (which is another level pf access) then reviews all the submitted proposals and votes through the system. After the voting is done, proposals with highest scores make it to the IPRO course listings.

The goals for the front-end of this project were to:

1. match the overall layout to other IPRO systems
2. use university colors (red, grey, black)
3. make it easy to use

Skills/technology used in this creation:

• usability concepts (flow of information)
• Photoshop (logo, header)
• CSS (layout, style)

I also developed a user guide for this system. Read more about it in the Instructional Documentation section.

IEC E-Newsletter

Designed while working for International Engineering Consortium (IEC)

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I re-designed the organizational newsletter for the IEC while working for them. The newsletter is e-mailed out twice a month and it's also available online.

The goals for the improvement of the newsletter were to:

• emphasize the presence of video interviews
• cleaner, more visual look
• clearly separate sections with visual cues

Skills/technology used in this creation:

• usability concepts (flow of information)
• Photoshop (media elements)
• CSS (style)

Recent Projects

ABVIA Poster | April, 2007

ABVIA team used this poster at an "Idea-to-Product Competition for Social Entrepreneurship" during the poster session to showcase their product that helps blind and visually impared swim independently in the pool. They won 2nd place.

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Redesign of Novak-Djokovic.com | December, 2007

This was a school project for a course called Online Design. The idea was to implement marketing strategies and current web technologies to bring the look and feel of the website to a level that matches Djokovic's great success on court.

Note: I planned to propose my new design to Djokovic's PR people, but in the meantime (two weeks after this project was due), he launched his new website :)

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UMD Brochure | October, 2007

This was my first design piece for the print medium. It was also the first project that I worked on my own that involved clients. There was a lot of interaction back and forth with the client and together we went through a lot of iterations before we got to this final result.

The goal of the brochure was to convey as much information as possible about this organization and at the same time to serve as an application form for membership.

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Got a Project? Let me know!

Please contact me about a project you have in mind. I support web standards and website usability, so if you respect those two, you are my favorite client :)

Copyright 2007. Anica Jovanova.