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Moodboard

Visual inspiration grid.

Images at full width, arranged to be looked at.

The "why" column is what stops a moodboard becoming a folder of pretty pictures.

Concrete and warm oak

Pinterest

Aesop, Marylebone

Photo, Aïcha

Muted terracotta

Paint chip

Hand-painted signage

Rue de Charonne

What it does

Behaviours, not fields. Choosing between two modules is choosing between these.

References with the reason they were kept, which is what stops a moodboard becoming a folder of pretty pictures.

No organising metadata by design — imposing categories on a moodboard is how it stops working.

Sources are credited, so a reference can be traced back or licensed.

How it works

  1. 1

    References are gathered quickly while a direction is being decided.

  2. 2

    Each carries the reason it was kept, which is what makes it discussable later.

  3. 3

    No categories are imposed, because imposing them on a moodboard is how it stops working.

  4. 4

    Sources are credited so a reference can be licensed if it becomes a direction.

Best for

Photos, generated packs, anything where the picture is the content.

Not the right choice for

Records that happen to have a thumbnail — that is Cards.

What a row holds

Every field, and what the agent listens for to fill it — which is the difference between a page you type into and one that fills itself.

FieldTypeFilled from
ReferencerequiredtextWhat the image is of, described rather than filenamed.
SourcerequiredtextWhere it came from, so it can be traced back or licensed.
WhyrequiredtextThe reason it was kept. Required — this is the field that stops it becoming a folder of pretty pictures.

What it does not do

A module chosen for something it cannot do costs more than one that was never offered.

  • Deliberately unstructured, so it does not scale past a few dozen references.
  • No rights clearance. A credited source is not a licence.
  • Nothing distinguishes a reference from a decision — that is what the Why column has to carry.
  • Not for finished work. Portfolio is.

Before it works

What you have to provide, if anything.

  • Nothing.
  • Write the Why as you add each one. Doing it afterwards does not happen.

In practice

A studio agreeing a direction with a client who kept saying warm but modern.

Something like this — concrete with warm oak. It is the materials, not the layout.
What was said to the agent

What the agent built

A reference with its source and, crucially, the reason it was kept.

What changed

The word warm stopped meaning four different things. The direction was agreed in one meeting rather than three.

Questions

What data does the Moodboard page use?

It reads media records the agent has collected. Visual inspiration grid. Nothing has to be imported first — the page appears once there is something to show.

Do I have to build or configure it?

No. You describe what you need in a sentence and the agent chooses the view and fills it. Custom pages exist for the cases no built-in view covers, and those are reviewed before they go live.

When is a gallery the wrong choice?

Records that happen to have a thumbnail — that is Cards. It is best for: photos, generated packs, anything where the picture is the content.

Does it stay up to date?

Yes. The page is a view over the data rather than a copy of it, so anything the agent learns afterwards shows up without a rebuild or a re-import.

Ask for it in a sentence

You do not configure this page. You tell your agent what you need and it builds it from what it has already collected.

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