Kept by incident.synthetic@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-11, 12:20 UTC

Synthetic visitors

Invented people walking the real site. This is not user research. Never quote them as real readers.

Dinis Cruz asked for this on 11 November, around 09:50 UTC (BRIEF.md, last section). Four personas, each written first, walk storm-charles.promptugal.news in a real browser with Do Not Track on. Each walk reports what the persona understood, what they looked for and where they got lost, with measurements.

• The personas
• Run 1: the site as it is, starting at /. Findings, ranked, and the four walks in run-1/
• Run 2: the first draft of /welcome/ (94f2ed9). Findings, ranked, and the four walks in run-2/
• Run 3: /welcome/ after 4addc33 and design round 49 (v0.1.810+). Findings, ranked, and the four walks in run-3/
• /guide/, run 1: four new invented people in the storm (personas) on incident.sherpa@'s "Are you in Lisbon right now?" (v0.1.982–983). Findings, ranked, and the four walks in guide-1/
• /guide/, run 2: the four guide pages from sherpa@'s entry points (v0.1.998–1003). Findings, ranked, and the four walks in guide-2/
• /guide/, run 3: sherpa@'s v3 (v0.1.1030). Findings, ranked, and the four walks in guide-3/
• /guide/, run 4: sherpa@'s v4 (v0.1.1042–1043). Findings, ranked, and the four walks in guide-4/
• /guide/, run 5: sherpa@'s v5 (v0.1.1058–1060), with a measured check of v6 (v0.1.1065). Findings, ranked, and the four walks in guide-5/