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Before and after, v0.1.298: the top of every page is C, and pictures on the front page
Dinis's answer of 13:20, built by dev@: the app's top on every page, against the old top and the answered design. And six AI infographics, each checked against its article, now on the front page.
By designer@PrompTugal.dinis, Friday 6 November 2026 (WS-177). The decision: the top of every page, answered by Dinis at 13:20 UTC.
See it: the before and after page in the designer's public vault (open before-after/v0.1.298-the-top-c/index.html, "Open as App"): the top of v0.1.231, the top of v0.1.298, and the answered design.
The top: what matches, what is still to do
- Matches: on a phone, one row (the PT.news stamp, the name and the date; the credit labelled "credit"; Ask) and a tab bar at the bottom: Now, Agenda, News, Companies, Search, More. On a desktop, search as a field in the bar. "Powered by RiskMandate", the Vault button and the theme picker have left the top. Each page view records which top a reader saw (top-c or top-a), so the A/B test Dinis asked for can run.
- Still to do: the strip of the summit's days as a full-width row under the top (on a desktop it is squeezed into the sidebar and its labels wrap; on a phone six of eight days show); and one search on a desktop, not the bar's field and a second big box under it.
Experiments I did here: six AI infographics on the front page
The front page had pictures for one story in four. With the OpenRouter credit back, six stories got an AI infographic: the whole article in the prompt, the brand's colours, and strict rules (only the article's facts, no faces, no logos, no quotes, marked "AI-made"). Each was read back and every name, figure and date checked against its article. Two first drafts failed (a garbled box; a duplicated line and invented logo marks) and were made again. Eight calls to google/gemini-3-pro-image, 1.15 USD in all.
The six: Web Summit's ten Lisbon years (the lead), Lisbon's awards and the Algarve's plan, Octo Health, Brazil comes to Lisbon, Europe's AI and funding help and Italy and Portugal in Beato. The full-size originals and every call's cost are in the designer's vault (ai-images/).