CuratedAI

AI is transforming journalistic practices, from news production and editorial decision-making to how information is curated and distributed. This creates opportunities and challenges for journalists, newsrooms and the public. Newsrooms must decide which AI tools to use, what to disclose, and who is responsible, while readers rarely know where AI was involved.

CuratedAI, a research project at SFI MediaFutures, investigates this change and helps newsrooms examine where they use AI and what different audiences need to know. The project website had to make this research understandable beyond the research team, to journalists, editors, newsroom managers and readers. The design challenge was to turn a complex framework into clear information that is easy to find and easy to act on.

I joined the CuratedAI team as a research assistant in September 2026. I contribute UX/UI design, content design, information architecture and accessibility, helping translate the project's research and conceptual work into clear, user-centered digital experiences. I also take part in interviews with journalists, data collection and analysis.

My research work includes reviewing AI policies from Norwegian newsrooms and expanding that review to international news organizations, to understand how newsrooms describe, disclose and govern their use of AI. I also help prepare research activities and project events.

CuratedAI explores technical and ethical questions, but the project website needs to speak to people beyond the research team. In the design work, the focus was on making the project purpose, activities, and information easier to find and understand.

That meant considering content structure and visual hierarchy alongside the interface itself, a good reminder that UX/UI is as much about communicating clearly as it is about arranging screens.

1. Understand the domain. Together with the team, I read the Curated Information Framework and the newsroom background material before drawing anything. We stayed in continuous contact with the project leader and ran micro-tests along the way.

2. Define the information architecture. Together with the team, I set the pages and navigation around who arrives (journalists, editors, newsroom managers, readers). We ranked the functionality and the important pages by priority.

3. Design section by section. Together with the team, I drafted, prototyped, measured and revised each section, and wrote the build specification. We kept the content easy to read, cut cognitive load, and made the navigation logical, revising continuously.

CuratedAI is still in progress. The website design is ongoing, the review of newsroom AI policies continues, and interviews with journalists are planned. This case study documents my contribution, not final research findings.