Media Links
- Media Handbook – Handbook made by our team for taking pictures, videos, editing, uploading, and coordinate key shots
- YouTube Link – Link to our team’s YouTube channel, our old YouTube channel can also be found here
- Instagram – Link to the team’s Instagram account
- Facebook – Link to the team’s Facebook account
- The Blue Alliance – Link to The Blue Alliance which keeps track of our previous records and achievements as well as how the team is doing at competitions
- Helpful design tips
- User Stories – A method of approaching design from a user-end perspective
- 10 User Experience tips – Mainly related to Web design, but can be applied to other things as well
- Cheating at Graphic Design – Practical Guide to making better graphic design choices
- Aims for usability not aesthetics
- Tip 4 is subjective, too much spacing isn’t that great either (read comments)
- The author’s own article fails the color contrast test, so don’t follow the guide word for word
- Read the comments as they correct the author on multiple points and add more tips
- Media Tools
- You should use Adobe CC suite whenever possible, however if you can’t afford them, here are some alternatives
- Photoshop:
- Illustrator:
- Inkscape(free) – Works well if you know how to use it, but has a sharp learning curve and looks like its from the middle ages.
- Gravit Designer(free) – Newer and aesthetic web based cross-platform software, easier to learn but as of writing more bugs and less featured.
- Figma(free) – Technically its an interface design tool, but works well as a vector tool. IMO easiest to learn and use, but lacks feature.
- Affinity Designer (50$ one time fee) – the best software out of the bunch and the closest, if not better then Illustrator, but costs money
- Premiere Pro:
- No actual free alternative (though Windows movie maker and imovie if you have to)
- Final Cut Pro(300$ mac only)
- Real sketchy way of doing things:
- Use a combination of Blender’s video editor, Kdenlive, NukeX(free trial, use FFMPEG to convert the export back into mp4)
- After Effects:
