Posts about Style Guide

Designing a Collaborative Book: Preserving Excellence in the National Park Service

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This artifact showcases a collaborative book project titled The National Park Service: The Best Idea We Ever Had, completed as the final group assignment in a Technical Editing class. The project involved writing, editing, designing, and compiling a professional-quality book. As the project manager and an active contributor, I[…]

Finding the Right Fit: Recommending a Content Guide for FieldPulse

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This artifact is a recommendation report created as a Style class assignment for FieldPulse, a company specializing in Field Service Management (FSM) software. The report evaluates and compares two existing content guides—Canada Post’s and Mailchimp’s—to recommend which would best serve as a foundation for FieldPulse’s own content guidelines. The[…]

Modernizing the Playbook: Revamping the Intramural Sports Handbook

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This artifact demonstrates the redesign of a college intramural sports handbook. The project involved transforming an outdated Word document into a modern, professionally formatted InDesign document suitable for print and PDF export. The redesign leveraged advanced design principles, including C.R.A.P. and grid-based design, to enhance usability and visual appeal.[…]

Revamping the Manual: Redesigning ACO Training Materials

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This artifact showcases my redesign of a chapter from an Animal Control Officer (ACO) Training Manual, focusing on applying professional formatting and design principles using Microsoft Word. While the project predates my Adobe InDesign experience, it demonstrates advanced proficiency in leveraging Word as a design tool for creating effective[…]

Redesigning Clarity: Updating Spectrum Therapy’s Client Services Handbook

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This artifact represents the latest iteration of the Client Services Handbook for Spectrum Therapy, a company providing Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services to individuals on the autism spectrum. Over the course of several projects, I have transformed this handbook from two separate Word documents into a unified, modularly designed[…]