Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I’ve had three likes on Bluesky in half a day, which is pretty much viral for this platform #engagement 010
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’ve been vibe-coding my personal website and I’m drunk on my powers 131
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“To be entirely clear: most AI problems that fail, do so because there was no service design involved, rather than because the AI wasn’t good enough.” From puntofisso.net/blog/posts/t...puntofisso.net15 things I have learned launching AI projects - Part 2What does AI adoption means in practice Part 1 was a preamble based on framing AI in the context of building solutions. Here, we get a bit more practical detail. 130
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 03/04/2026 Services are big this year sequoiacap.com/article/serv...sequoiacap.comServices: The New SoftwareThe next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm. 021
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 15/03/2026One of the arguments I’ve been looking for www.frank.computer/blog/2026/03...frank.computerOn genAI: Was prototyping really a bottleneck?I keep hearing folks claim that the fact we can ‘prototype’ so quickly now is a good thing (thanks to modern genAI). But what if the slow parts about prototyping are actually what makes it worth doing... 141
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 27/01/2026A practical application of the ”ethical tech” debates we’ve seen in the UK public sector: a single log of all the communications you’ve received from the government about your case 110
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Echoes, here, of why so much LLM writing is hollow www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/asses...timeshighereducation.comAssessment needs to grow up: what process and imperfection mean for higher educationRather than railing against AI, educators could see this moment as an overdue correction and redesign assessment around what matters: the process by which humans think, revise and learn 100
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I’ve been asking designers-who-can code to write a post about this forever. This will save me a lot of gentle ”the Figma map is not the product territory” explaining gavinelliott.co.uk/blog/why-i-b...gavinelliott.co.ukWhy I believe prototyping in code beats everything elseA code prototype changes everything. When you prototype in code, the thing you are testing is real. It works in the browser. It works on any device. It responds to real-world variables. 182
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 11/06/2025For my fellow privacy and security nerds www.abetterinternet.org/post/humandi...abetterinternet.orgResearching the Human Digital Identity SpaceToday we are announcing an effort that will allow ISRG to learn about systems for human digital identity. We're partnering with the SIROS Foundation for this exploration, and our work has been generou... 010
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 07/05/2025V good ia.net/topics/maker...ia.netMaker’s KnowledgeWe only know what we made ourselves, or: Why we want to know how things are made. 041
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Enjoyed this lg.substack.com/p/the-death-...lg.substack.comThe Death of Product Development as We Know itGoodbye three-legged stool, 2-pizza teams, and "managers" 150
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Didn’t know about Express Mode for travel cards etc on iPhones, seems a useful thing: support.apple.com/en-us/105123support.apple.comUse Express Mode with transit cards, passes, and keys in Apple Wallet - Apple SupportSet up Express Mode to use cards, passes, and keys with just a tap. 010
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Thought this was delightful futureobjects.xyzfutureobjects.xyzObjects from the futureObjects from the Future is a tool for encouraging creative thinking about the future, adapted from imagination card game, The Thing from the Future. 100
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 03/03/2025“Everyone wants to do the model work, nobody wants to do the data work.” Well, here’s @franticpedantic.bsky.social (with h/t to @kdutia.bsky.social) talking about the data work www.climatepolicyradar.org/latest/mappi...climatepolicyradar.orgMapping climate policy: navigating context-specific language (Part I) — Climate Policy RadarIn our latest blog, Anne Sietsma unpacks the mapping tool CPR developed to show how climate terminology differs across the globe. 020
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Great book, great hat by @markhurrell.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Ella FitzsimmonsRichard Pope @richardpope.org · 23/11/2024Question for digital government people c 2015. Did you see these at the time? What worked / didn't work about them (conceptually, not graphically) 283010