information architecture

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Structure and disciplines: A contemporary arts website to remember

Laptop displaying the Creative Capital site

Creative Capital's website is a masterclass in how to maintain a database. Here, we dissect the exemplary information architecture strategy and explore role the site has played in revolutionizing the grant application process for artists and organizations across the contemporary arts world.

A UX mind-shift for website publishing: Consider reader experience

A UX mind-shift for website publishing: Consider reader experience

In the rising world of automation and content proliferation, where search engines are already experimenting with embedding generative AI in their results, how do creators and businesses stand out? Reader experience may just hold the answer.

On iteration: Why digital business folks and content producers don’t always see eye-to-eye

On iteration: Why digital business folks and content producers don’t always see eye-to-eye

Iteration is a repetition of a process to solve a specific problem, and it’s a big part of how machine learning algorithms are developed. But the way devs and data scientists think about iteration doesn’t always match with editorial and entertainment industry production methodologies and norms.

Parrots are not stochastic and neither are you

Collage of parrots and mathematical formulas by Arikia Millikan

Like humans, parrots comprehend. They understand options and make choices based on comprehension. While the stochastic output of an LLM can seem like an entity deciding or exercising creative thought patterns, it’s just an algorithm running on a computer.

Why content strategists should add visual concepting software to their toolkits

Example of a brand jam showing visual concepting for a food media collective.

Visual concepting tools have branched into the strategy, brand, and content disciplines. They present rich canvases to communicate vision, a far cry from algorithms that fill content templates.

AI Art, Metadata, and Copyright Law

"Garfield in the style of Roz Chast," generated in Midjourney with a prompt by Sam Thielman.

If an AI art-generator company creates a program that can download images at scale and then mash them all together at an end-user’s command, creating endless iterations of digital images "in the style of the Blue period," we'll soon have a much larger database with even more images tagged "Picasso."

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