# one person (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover one person. Page: Feed: --- ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 9 ChatGPT Vs Claude Is The Wrong Argument. Here Is The Real Choice](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-9-pick) _2026-08-21 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ Both build the same 3 tools under different names. ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 8 Which AI Model To Use, Decided In 10 Seconds With 3 Questions](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-8-pick) _2026-08-20 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ The effort dial matters more than the model name. ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 7 Open All Four Claude Tools, Not Just The Chat Box](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-7-open) _2026-08-19 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ One account, four separate tools. Here is what each one does, where it lives, and which plan you need. ## [Low adoption is rarely a motivation problem, it's...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260818/121500/) _2026-08-18 · uxBrad_ Low adoption is rarely a motivation problem, it’s usually an ability or prompt problem. B=MAP gives you a way to diagnose which one is actually broken instead of guessing. Next time a feature flops, don’t ask “why don’t users want this.” Ask which of the three is missing, then fix that one thing. https://hackernoon.com/ux-unpacked-using-the-fogg-behavior-model-to-diagnose-product-adoption Continue… ## [Most design systems are just component libraries...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260818/091500/) _2026-08-18 · uxBrad_ Most design systems are just component libraries wearing a brand color. A real design system explains how your product’s concepts should feel and behave, not just how a button gets styled. https://yeseniaperezcruz.substack.com/p/a-design-language-is-more-than-a Continue Reading → ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 6 Split One Job Across Three Models, And Stop Letting The Builder Grade Its Own Work](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-6-split) _2026-08-18 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ Three model sizes, one job split three ways, and a rule that survives every name change. ## [Good framing on research artifacts... They're...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260817/171500/) _2026-08-17 · uxBrad_ Good framing on research artifacts… They’re like vacation photos. They aren’t the knowledge… they’re a souvenir of it. https://polgarp.com/newsletter/Discovery-artifacts-are-vacation-photos/ Continue Reading → ## [IA gets reduced to sitemaps and nav labels. Fifty...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260817/121500/) _2026-08-17 · uxBrad_ IA gets reduced to sitemaps and nav labels. Fifty years into the discipline, many people still don’t know what it’s actually for. https://jarango.com/2026/08/07/whats-the-purpose-of-information-architecture/ Continue Reading → ## [This tracks with what I see running audits: AI is...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260817/091500/) _2026-08-17 · uxBrad_ This tracks with what I see running audits: AI is overeager. It flags everything as a problem because it has no sense of severity or user context, which is exactly the judgment call that makes a usability review useful instead of noise. Worth reading if you’re tempted to hand off review work wholesale. https://measuringu.com/does-ai-find-real-usability-problems-a-replication/ Continue Reading → ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 5 Hold Your Own Opinion On AI, With The Real Numbers Behind It](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-5-hold) _2026-08-17 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ The actual energy figures, the foggy feeling about the future, where your attention went, and how to rate a prediction. ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DPrLe3rM4PTC) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [Ensembles](https://uxbrad.com/projects/ensembles/) _2026-08-17 · uxBrad_ Traditional personas describe individuals. Ensembles describe the social configurations that decide whether your product, feature, or change actually gets adopted, because the same person behaves differently on different teams. It’s a structured way to document a team in enough detail that AI can simulate how they’d react to a stimulus (a feature concept, a requirement, an organizational change)… ## [Introducing Simulated Ensembles](https://uxbrad.com/posts/introducing-simulated-ensembles/) _2026-08-17 · uxBrad_ I’ve been building up toward writing this article for a while. I’ve written a bit about how traditional personas don’t connect to decisions, that virtual personas help with retrieval but not prediction, and that even a lightweight team persona on one page can get you closer to how decisions actually get made in enterprise software design. I’d like to introduce you to the idea of Simulated… ## [Manual Accessibility Skills](https://uxbrad.com/projects/manual-accessibility-skills/) _2026-08-17 · uxBrad_ A collection of skills and AI automations aimed at the parts of accessibility auditing and testing that are still manual today. I’m CPACC and DHS Trusted Tester certified, and this is where the repetitive parts of that work get automated instead of redone by hand every audit. Status: coming soon. This is early — nothing’s published yet. Check back, or follow along on the blog for updates as it… ## [Most "AI in design" talk is about tools and...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260816/171500/) _2026-08-16 · uxBrad_ Most “AI in design” talk is about tools and prompts. This article asks the harder question, what happens when the product itself has to bend and reshape around user behavior in real time. That’s the move from responsive design to malleable design, and most design systems aren’t built for it yet. https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/everyone-is-designing-with-ai-not-for-it Continue Reading → ## [The fleet that builds my backlog: two roles, one budget, and a rule against thinking](https://lionshead.digital/notes/the-fleet-that-builds-my-backlog) _2026-08-16 · Lionshead Notes_ How the agent fleet driving my product is actually wired. One expensive planner that holds the whole graph, one cheap executor forbidden from resolving ambiguity, model tiers chosen per step against a real spend telemetry feed, and a set of merge gates that decide what it may finish without me. ## [I don't know what it is but I want one or several.](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260816/123044/) _2026-08-16 · uxBrad_ I don’t know what it is but I want one or several. Continue Reading → ## [A utility company doubled its users by stripping...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260816/121500/) _2026-08-16 · uxBrad_ A utility company doubled its users by stripping the site back to HTML-first. This is the pattern I keep hitting on accessibility audits, teams pile on complexity assuming it helps, then discover plain HTML was faster, more resilient, and easier for people to actually use. https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/ Continue Reading → ## [Most undo/redo implementations are a linear stack...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260816/091500/) _2026-08-16 · uxBrad_ Most undo/redo implementations are a linear stack that breaks the second you add collaboration or branching history. This article walks through a CRDT-based approach that keeps undo intuitive even when multiple people are editing at once. “Undo, undo, undo… (repeat N times); copy something; redo, redo, redo (repeat N times); paste.” I’ve been there many many times.… ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 4 Run A Seven Day Plan That Ends With An AI Setup That Remembers You](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-4-run-a) _2026-08-16 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ Seven days, one thing a day, ending with a saved setup instead of another blank box. ## [Genius B\\\*tchwork - Part 41: How AI Helped a Woman Win Her Eviction Appeal and Walk Away From $55,000 in Penalties](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-41-how-ai-helped) _2026-08-16 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ A woman in Long Beach lost her jury trial and could not afford a lawyer for the appeal. ChatGPT and Perplexity found the judge's procedural mistakes, and she walked away from $55,000 in penalties. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6T9QLcUgTVyC) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 3 Find Your Real AI Level, Then Make The One Move That Lifts You A Rung](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-3-find) _2026-08-15 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ Five rungs, one honest placement, and the single next move for the level you are actually on. ## [A bolder down by the train tracks.](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260815/081313/) _2026-08-15 · uxBrad_ A bolder down by the train tracks. Continue Reading → ## [Restless Hips](https://mirandajuly.substack.com/p/restless-hips) _2026-08-14 · Miranda July · Miranda July_ Cheap food, strength training, a book rec, a new Beguiled call, SHOE DISCOVERY, grains and so. much. more ## [Can we agree, right now, that the field exploring...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260814/162000/) _2026-08-14 · uxBrad_ Can we agree, right now, that the field exploring AI-driven simulations of digital twins, synthetic users, and large-group behavior prediction gets called Psychohistory? #ux #ai #psychohistory Continue Reading → ## [One Person Empire: Part 18 I Set Up a Brand New Pinterest Account in One Afternoon: The 4 Fields and 9 Boards That Do All the Work](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/one-person-empire-part-18-pinterest-setup) _2026-08-14 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ Signing up takes two minutes. The setup that makes you findable takes an afternoon. Here is every field I changed, every board I built, and the one step that can get your website blocked. ## [One Person Empire: Part 17 Your Second Business Does Not Belong on Your Pinterest Account. Here Is the 8-Board Setup I Am Using Instead](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/one-person-empire-part-17-your-second) _2026-08-14 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ Pinterest reads your whole account as one topic. Bolting a second brand on as a few new boards can slow down both. Here is how to decide, the claim rules that trip people up, and the 30-day ramp for the new account. ## [AI for Entrepreneurs: Part 2 Write The One Page That Stops You Explaining Yourself In Every New Chat](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/ai-for-entrepreneurs-part-2-write) _2026-08-14 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ Markdown is plain text with four simple marks, and your first file should be one page about how you work. ## [B\*tchwork my AI Did for Me - Part 40: My AI Turns a Rough Draft Into a Paid Substack Post With the Cover, Paywall, and Proof](https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/btchwork-my-ai-did-for-me-part-40) _2026-08-14 · Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale_ I had the words. ## [I just finished reading Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260809/175500/) _2026-08-09 · uxBrad_ This is a memoir from Chloe Dalton, someone I would have like to learn more about as a political adviser and foreign policy specialist, but this book is strictly about her experience raising a wild hare and its offspring. It seems fun and terrifying and ends with a personal eye-opener about industry and the harm it does to the environment. I just finished reading Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe… ## [I handed my backlog to an agent fleet for ten days. Three of its safeguards were lying to me.](https://lionshead.digital/notes/safeguards-that-were-never-running) _2026-08-09 · Lionshead Notes_ I built a two-role agent fleet to drive my story queue: an expensive planner holding the whole graph, and a cheap executor forbidden from thinking. Ten days and 503 agent-written commits later, three of its safeguards were reporting a protection they never provided. Here is each, and why none spoke. ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/53D0Vq5mNGsL) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [I picked so many ghost peppers from the garden whi...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260809/131352/) _2026-08-09 · uxBrad_ I picked so many ghost peppers from the garden which are now currently fermenting. Continue Reading → ## [I just finished reading The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260808/153846/) _2026-08-08 · uxBrad_ Real life can be absurdist and this book was stranger than fiction. A flautist and fly-tier breaking into a natural history museum to steal rare bird skins, then selling the feathers on the black market to Victorian salmon-fly tiers. Weird, informative and interesting. I just finished reading The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson… ## [I went a little quiet this week because I was up i...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260808/144913/) _2026-08-08 · uxBrad_ I went a little quiet this week because I was up in Maine watching everyone murder lobsters. Continue Reading → ## [There's already a recognizable "AI-made" look......](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260802/171500/) _2026-08-02 · uxBrad_ There’s already a recognizable “AI-made” look… the gradients, the rounded everything, the same three fonts. Design shaped by a zeitgeist tend to age fast. If your product’s visual language is drifting toward that default AI aesthetic it’s telling everyone that you didn’t care about design and likely don’t care about all the products quality. https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Continue… ## [Killing the long-lived tokens in my CI, one exchange at a time](https://lionshead.digital/notes/killing-long-lived-tokens-with-oidc) _2026-08-02 · Lionshead Notes_ A static service token in GitHub Secrets is a breach with the timer already running. So I replace them with an OIDC exchange: every CI job proves who it is at runtime and gets a token that dies in minutes. The mechanism, the links, the config, and an honest list of what still holds one. ## [Most teams prototype too late, after the...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260802/121500/) _2026-08-02 · uxBrad_ Most teams prototype too late, after the assumptions are already baked into the roadmap. The best prototypes aren’t there to validate a finished idea, they’re there to replace guesswork with evidence while the direction is still cheap to change. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/a-prototype-is-not-a-product-it-s-a-conversation Continue Reading → ## [A spinner is a confession. Users read a slow,...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260802/091500/) _2026-08-02 · uxBrad_ A spinner is a confession. Users read a slow, blank load state as evidence about your whole architecture before they’ve seen a single feature, and that first impression is almost impossible to walk back. If your loading state is just a spinner and a prayer, the fix isn’t a prettier spinner, it’s whatever’s actually slow underneath it.… ## [Thank you for coming](https://mirandajuly.substack.com/p/thank-you-for-coming-4b8) _2026-07-27 · Miranda July · Miranda July_ To Miranda July and Juan Garcia‘s Goodbye Garden Party ## [How do you know a passing check still works? Make it fail on purpose.](https://lionshead.digital/notes/make-it-fail-on-purpose) _2026-07-26 · Lionshead Notes_ Last post I found four checks that had silently stopped working. So I counted how many of my gates have a fixture that proves they can still fail. The answer was humbling: a handful, all code I wrote myself, none on the linter this series is named after. Here is what I did about it. ## [I audited 2,864 CI checks. Several had never run, and green never told me.](https://lionshead.digital/notes/green-is-not-evidence) _2026-07-26 · Lionshead Notes_ I counted every PR check I have ever run to answer a simple question. The answer was boring. What I found on the way is that several of my checks had never run at all, and nothing about a green build can tell you the difference. ## [Interruption pages exist to protect the business,...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260726/121500/) _2026-07-26 · uxBrad_ Interruption pages exist to protect the business, not the user, and everyone pretends otherwise. Adam Silver’s take is that the best interruption is no interruption. If your flow needs a warning screen before someone can continue, that’s a signal the flow itself is broken, not a UX pattern to polish. Fix the form, don’t decorate the friction.… ## [Your first idea for a feature is almost always...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260726/091500/) _2026-07-26 · uxBrad_ Your first idea for a feature is almost always the laziest one, a copy of something you saw in another app. AI just made copying faster, it didn’t make it smarter. A thoughtful product isn’t a pile of borrowed ideas, it’s a series of decisions someone actually defended. If you can’t explain why a feature exists beyond “competitor X has it,” it’s a hack, not a solution.… ## [Small qualitative samples can get thrown out...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260722/171500/) _2026-07-22 · uxBrad_ Small qualitative samples can get thrown out because people believe they aren’t statistically significant… But a small study (like this one from Mozilla) can catch real friction a survey would smooth over. If your team is waiting for a bigger sample size before talking to any users, the sample size isn’t the problem. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/desktopsettings/ Continue Reading → ## [Well shit. I never expected to be enthralled by...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260722/121500/) _2026-07-22 · uxBrad_ Well shit. I never expected to be enthralled by an article on elevator buttons. The “elevator close button is a placebo” gets referenced to make a point about perceived control, but when you dig into where that legend actually comes from, it’s a good reminder to check your sources. https://computer.rip/2023-03-13-the-door-close-button.html Continue Reading → ## [A PM getting excited for a security review sounds...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260722/091500/) _2026-07-22 · uxBrad_ A PM getting excited for a security review sounds impossible until you realize it wasn’t about the review, it was about how the team ran it. Frame them as collaborative problem-solving instead of a gate to pass, and people stop dreading them and start showing up with questions. https://www.stephanwiefling.de/2026/07/12/excited-product-manager-for-security-review.html Continue Reading → ## [Exquisite Mariposa: Juan's Garden](https://mirandajuly.substack.com/p/exquisite-mariposa-juans-garden) _2026-07-21 · Miranda July · Miranda July_ A history that ends with an invitation ## [This can't be healthy for the plant but I'm sure i...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260720/192627/) _2026-07-20 · uxBrad_ This can’t be healthy for the plant but I’m sure it was healthy for some bugs. Continue Reading → ## [Every pull request gets its own app and its own Postgres branch, for $0](https://lionshead.digital/notes/preview-environments-are-the-dev-loop) _2026-07-20 · Lionshead Notes_ Every Lionshead PR spins up its own running app and its own copy-on-write Postgres branch, created in seconds, deleted on merge. Local, preview, and prod are a stack, not a substitution. Here's how it works, what it costs (nothing), and the gotchas that bit me last week. ## [This has to be the smallest frog I've ever seen.](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260719/132442/) _2026-07-19 · uxBrad_ This has to be the smallest frog I’ve ever seen. Continue Reading → ## [I guess I never thought about the fact that if I b...](https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260718/102119/) _2026-07-18 · uxBrad_ I guess I never thought about the fact that if I bought plants that live in water that I wouldn’t have to remember to water them. Continue Reading →