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    Leyna Bencomo
    • Apr 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pictures

    I like the way this business card shows four pictures rather than text. I never thought there was enough room to do that. I’m going to...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Apr 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Tactile Manipulatives

    I picked up this little manipulative at a health fair recently. A malleable red plastic pillow with Shelley beads inside of it. It’s used...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Apr 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    A Life Unbalanced

    I finalized my first Pecha Kucha presentation for my class and it was a humbling experience. I realized that I should not publish...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Mar 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    Graphic Novelist

    This week we got to play at being graphic novelists. Here is my first comic using Pixton. I think I need a vacation.

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Mar 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    Everyone can draw a Brain

    We learned in my Creative Designs for Instructional Materials class that being able to draw your ideas is a great skill to have. If you...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Feb 23, 2018
    • 2 min

    A Life Unbalanced

    The following is a rough draft of the beginnings of my design document for a PechaKucha I am designing: SECTION 1: Overview Life balance...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Feb 22, 2018
    • 1 min

    Ancient History

    Dr. Scott Kupferman has a beautiful collection of assistive technology which spans most of the history of many of the pieces. He allowed...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Feb 21, 2018
    • 1 min

    5 Photos - Telling a Story

    Our class was tasked with telling a story using 5 photos and nothing more. I took the mundane job of feeding my little dog and broke it...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Feb 19, 2018
    • 1 min

    An Infographic of My Own

    Here is my first Infographic of 2018. I want this to be the first of many I create this year.

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Feb 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    Accessible Documents Infographic

    I'm in the process of creating an instructional infographic poster for my class. I've chosen to create an aid for teaching professors at...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Feb 9, 2018
    • 2 min

    Chow Down!

    This week's assignments involved watching some quick videos that convinced us that we can all draw...at least well enough to be...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Feb 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Carpy Design

    This week , I've been asked to display an infographic that I like and talk about how it follows the CARP principles as mentioned in Robin...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Jan 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Teaching the Teacher

    Creating Accessible Documents – A Guide for Faculty Part of my job involves converting documents for students with print disabilities...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Jan 25, 2018
    • 1 min

    They should listen to us!

    I get so annoyed that most tech designers don't have a clue how to please me! Being the natural born critic I am, I want to shake them...

    Leyna Bencomo
    • Jan 23, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pecha Kucha - Great Design?

    So I dug around Pinterest looking at presentation ideas. I found a few presentations in Pecha Kucha style. What is that you ask? Its a...