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ALLISON NORDIN I am a graphic design and mathematics student at Portland State University. I go to school part-time and am on course to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design and a minor in mathematics by summer of 2020. I firmly believe that math is an integral part of art and graphic design and I hope that I can help other graphic design and art students learn to appreciate the beauty in math. I am interested in both print and digital design but am currently pursuing a career in web development and design. Through my courses at PSU I have learned to really enjoy HTML, CSS, and JavacSript coding as well as the challenges and triumphs of designing and coding a website from start to finish. DESIGN CAREER My introduction to graphic design was at The Broadside, which is the student newspaper at Central Oregon Community College. I was hired as a page designer and illustrator simply because I liked to draw. I had absolutely no experience in the Adobe Creative Suite

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PROJECT Adore Day Spa is one of the highest rated day spas in Portland OR. Their great ratings come from their superb customer service, wide range of services and excellent prices. Adore Day Spa is very active on social media but very little attention has been given to their website. Their website does not represent the professionalism of the company and is very difficult to navigate. As it is becoming more common to book appointments online, Adore Day Spa’s website needs an update both structurally and visually. I redesigned Adore Day Spa’s website during my Interactive Media course at Portland State University. My assignment was to redesign and code a website for a local Portland Company. The goal was to learn how to find issues within an existing website’s design and layout and understand how to fix them.