Raincoat or Sunscreen? Preparing Your Website for AI Search
Better believe there’s no shortage of forecasts about AI website optimization… what’s coming, when’s the blizzard arriving and the drought and the winds and those raining frog phenomena’s. Sadly it’s …
Make Your Site Intelligible to AI Bots by Defining Your Identity
Referees introduced something new at the World Cup this summer. During the USA vs Paraguay match they reversed a foul for “mistaken identity”. At openbox9, we have been reviewing our …
Make Your Site Hospitable to AI Bots by Cleaning Up
The AI bots crawling your website take a virtual tour of every nook and cranny of your house. They see that cabinet stuffed with to-go containers with no matching lids, …
Nonprofit Event Design: In the Room Where it Happens
The NRF Foundation Honors is a night of celebration and recognition of the nation’s brightest retail leaders and rising retail talent — aptly named “the biggest night in retail.” Since 2019, …
Why Your Brand Deserves a Digital Style Guide (and My Farewell to PDFs)
The Case of the Broken-Down Brand Guide Unless you work in marketing, design, or another role that deals with public-facing products, you probably don’t often think about branding. It might …
A Nonprofit Budget Debate: The Box Bash Season 2
From the brains that argue Die Hard is a Christmas Movie – welcome back to season 2 of The Box Bash, the series where ob9 brains bash it out offering …
A Summer of Paint and Interning
This summer has been a blast interning with openbox9. I was given many challenge – from painting to working on branding projects, all while learning Adobe tools. My favorite project was …
A Design Debate: The Box Bash Season 1
From the minds that thought of ‘cheese on that’ (a cheese dispensing backpack for sidewalk strolls) comes a brand new debate series where ob9 brains bash it out to bring …
Data Wrangling, How to Begin
Visual solutions to wrangle pesky shoeboxes full of raw data
Entangled Hair, Never Felt so Free — 25 Years of Solutions
Our day 1 mantra remains in style 25 years later: ‘know thy client’
College Sustainability Websites
Design expert’s review of university sustainability department websites – what design choices work, what doesn’t, and why.