City journal · editorial

Browse, read, and save stories. The model chooses the visual identity.

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The shared brief

# City journal

Build a frontend for a magazine covering everyday city life. Readers should be able to browse the supplied stories, search or filter them by topic, read a complete article, and save stories for later. Choose the publication’s name, visual identity, typography, page organization, and navigation. Use the supplied factual content. Make the interactions work with browser state, and support both desktop and mobile. You decide how the interface presents the content; the optional local assets are available if useful.

Sample directions

Baseline A and B are independent attempts. Alternative asks for a different visual direction using summaries of the two baselines. Whacky asks for an experimental interface while preserving core tasks.

Published results

472 previews across 483 attempted cells in the 2026-10-23 snapshot. Each cell is one model, brief version, skill, and sample. Functional checks measure behavior, not design taste. Read the methodology.