Ideas, insights, and stories for creative minds building the future
Version control for designers — no Git needed. Versioning best practices that streamline your design workflow, from file naming to systems that track every change. Includes a review of tools that tried to bring Git to designers and why most of them failed.
AI image tagging software promises to automatically tag your assets with relevant keywords — making them searchable without manual metadata work. We tested how AI-powered image taggers handle real DAM workflows: what they get right, where they fail, and when you still need a human. Real photographs from six industries, tested against the most popular recognition services.
Every SaaS company gates features behind pricing tiers. We chose to include everything from day one. Here is why we think upselling is broken — and what we did instead. A founder’s take on honest pricing, feature gating, and how the DAM industry gets it wrong.
How to build metadata taxonomies for your DAM. Tagging, classification, and organizing digital assets with metadata and taxonomies that actually scale. Includes six industry-specific templates with downloadable CSVs.
Photos, videos, and large assets — the right way to deliver creative work without email attachments, broken links, or “which version?” confusion. Cloud storage, transfer services, and branded portals compared with a side-by-side comparison.
Email attachments get lost, bounce on size limits, and create version chaos. Here are three better ways to receive files from clients — cloud storage, online forms, and branded portals — with a side-by-side comparison to help you choose.
