AI’m Creative?
Explorations in artificial intelligence and its disruption of creativity, marketing and media production.
The Illustrator-Moment for Machine Learning?
The underlying concepts of Machine Learning are very stable now and with that a new trend emerges: Bringing Machine Learning into the hands of at least a regular computer-savvy user. Is the technology moving out of academia? Read more …
Image cropping in the machine learning age
Image cropping has increasingly become a pain in the ass. With content flowing more freely in the web and on different brand platforms like apps or social media more and more crops of the same image are needed. Can machine learning help? Read more …
Essential reading The learning robots are coming
Artificial intelligence is about to change the workplace. And a lot more. Media production, used to change for years, is about to be disrupted again. Read more …
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How Smart can Content be?
Content is not just some dumb text or picture. For todays digital experiences to work, content needs to be connected, structured and smart.
Is lorem ipsum really evil?
One of the common things people do wrong in prototyping but also in graphic design is the use of dummy text. How would a strategy for text look like that is based on iterative and rapid prototyping? Read more …
Building multichannel experiences with the “Content Topic Wheel”
The Content Topic Wheel provides a framework for developing ideas based on the topics of a Content Strategy and putting them together in a multichannel architecture. Read more …
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Is Publishing just an API?
Media production used to be the craft to weld together content and design. Not anymore. We need to think of publishing as as service, designed for communication.
Headless CMS with a second head
Another approach to decoupled content management: When algorithms are not enough to build a web page, curation possibilities often fall short with headless architectures. What would be a better approach? Read more …
Essential reading The future of media production
Databases and publishing systems are everything in media production and the future is “web first”? Sorry, everything wrong! Here are four theses about the future of media production. Read more …
About layout applications for content first
An article of my college Haeme Ulrich about HTML authoring tools caught my attention: Haeme proclaims that in a content first world HTML based layout applications are the way to go. Really? Read more …
Essential reading Are we on the right track with today’s digital publishing?
Is Digital Publishing really digital? Or are we again thinking print, even when we design for digital media? Some thoughts on what “digital” really means. Read more …
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Is Agile the new Normal?
Everyone agrees: Digital needs new ways of working together, organizing teams and building company cultures. But agile is not a religion, it's just a tool that should help you with your goals.
Everything is a workshop
Workshops are in my opinion the single most important thing to master not just the digital transformation and adopt agile processes, but also to change the agency-client relationship. Why? Read more …
Essential reading Agile is not a religion
Many people use Agile as a shield. “We can’t do that because it is not written in the book of Scrum.” This is at least as dangerous and harmful as not adopting Agile at all. Agile is toolkit that should help you in your daily projects. How? Read more …
Setting the stage for Agile Publishing with a War Room
How to set up a War Room for Agile Publishing quickly by using the things that are already there. This will boost collaboration between different departments. Read more …
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