uOttawa — Jennifer Yaya Falanga

Overview

Motion and multimedia across the university

During my time at the University of Ottawa, I worked across brand identity, motion graphics, and instructional video, producing content viewed by thousands of learners across multiple faculties. The work required designing within systems I didn't build, adapting to brand standards set by other designers, accessibility requirements, and pedagogical goals that came before the visual layer.

Each project had a different audience, a different tone, and a different set of constraints, which meant the most useful skill wasn't a tool or a technique. It was knowing how to read a brief.

Identity Design — SILC: Bilingual Visual Identity. I designed the bilingual visual identity for the Supra-Institutional Learning Communities (SILC) initiative, a logo system that functions clearly in both French and English contexts. The mark reflects how the program connects learners across faculties and institutions: structured, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary. The final identity is accessible and ready for use across digital and print communications.

Motion Graphics Executive MHA — Slide Transitions A set of smooth, brand-aligned slide transitions for the Executive MHA program's video and presentation materials. Working within the visual identity designed by my colleague. The animations are calibrated for instructional pacing, subtle enough not to compete with content, polished enough to hold attention across long-form video.

Telfer School of Management — bilingual text and lower third animations — Motion Graphics Telfer — Text & Lower Third Animations Clean, bilingual text and lower-third animations for the French MBA program, aligned to the visual identity designed by Gisèle Richard. The motion system emphasizes precision, clarity, and rhythm, supporting interviews and promotional content, and providing a visual language that scales across future communications.

Telfer MAA program — video styleframes — **Visual Direction — Telfer MAA: Video Styleframes.** A suite of styleframes establishing the visual direction for a series of academic and promotional videos for the Maîtrise en administration des affaires program. The styleframes explored composition, colour, and motion cues that balanced faculty branding with a more contemporary, human-centred feel, guiding the animation approach and ensuring visual consistency across all program assets.

Lettres françaises — typography-driven end title animation — Motion Graphics Lettres françaises — End Title A refined end-title animation for the Maîtrise ès arts en lettres françaises program. The motion is clean, understated, and typography-driven, designed to close videos with clarity and unify program assets with a consistent visual signature.

Lettres françaises — full motion graphics branding suite — Motion Graphics Lettres françaises — Branding Suite A cohesive motion graphics suite, animated titles, lower thirds, and transitions, designed to hold its character whether running in French or English, and to feel considered rather than templated.

Ontario CLRI at Bruyère — accessible PowerPoint presentation template — **Presentation Design — Ontario CLRI at Bruyère: Presentation Template.** A comprehensive, brand-aligned PowerPoint template for Ontario CLRI at Bruyère Health, supporting teaching, outreach, and long-term care training initiatives. The deck brings together accessible layouts, cohesive typography, and flexible content structures that accommodate both clinical information and narrative storytelling, standardizing presentations across the organization for diverse audiences.

Reflection

What designing for institutions actually demands

Working across the University of Ottawa sharpened skills I rely on constantly: designing within systems I didn't create, working within brand constraints set by other designers, and prioritizing the needs of learners who have limited time and high stakes.

The most challenging and rewarding work was finding room for genuine visual quality within institutional constraints, making something that feels considered without disrupting the system it has to live inside.