Abstract: A method and system are described to facilitate the generation, and/or presentation, of digital artifacts, to a client device associated with a user. Metadata is extracted from a plurality of digital items; a subset of the digital items is selected based at least in part on the extracted metadata; the subset is filtered based at least in part on a predetermined rule; a parameter is estimated that is associated with a set of resulting digital items for the digital artifact; the filtered subset of digital items filtered is decimated based at least in part on the parameter and a respective quality assessment of each of the filtered subset of digital items; and the digital artifact is generated by arranging a remainder of digital items from the plurality of digital items based at least in part on a preselected layout, and presenting the digital artifact to a user on a display of the user device, wherein a subset of the digital artifact generated in is presented to the user prior to completion of the generation.