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UX Autopsy
Two designers pick apart real apps, websites, and interfaces, arguing over what works and what's broken.
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19 episodes, newest first.
- Netflix Clips | Pixel AuditNetflix's new 'Clips' vertical video feed and redesigned navigation are either the smartest engagement play in streaming or a TikTok cosplay nobody asked for — Grant and Maya can't agree. This audit digs into the 'personalized highlight reel' pitch, the hands-on review calling it 'oddly underpowered yet addictive,' the autoplay-on-open feature Netflix quietly tested and killed, and the oversized content cards subscribers are still complaining about a year later. They also check Netflix's own accessibility page against the motion-sickness complaints trailing the redesign and find a gap nobody's pricing in. Listeners walk away knowing how to pressure-test a motion-heavy engagement feature before shipping it, and how to read a company's accessibility docs for what they conspicuously don't mention. UX, UI, design critique, product design — this week's audit goes non-Apple, non-Google for the first time in months. This is Tuesday's episode for week 39 of 2026.
- iPhone Duo Hands-On | Pixel AuditThe iPhone Duo shipped, and Grant and Maya are cashing in on the predictions they locked before the keynote. Spicy opening take: the crease bet mostly held up, but the Dynamic Island grade is messier than either host wants to admit. They dig into the crease-visibility debate on darker screens, the redesigned Dynamic Island's ambiguous cross-screen behavior, Liquid Glass's paper-like inner display texture, and a left-handed ergonomics blind spot nobody actually bet on. Plus a rapid-fire red-flag/green-flag round on the hinge engineering claims and the opening animation. Walk away knowing how to grade your own product predictions honestly instead of quietly burying the misses. UX, UI, design critique, and product design talk for anyone who argues about interfaces for fun.
- iOS 27 Transparency Slider | Pixel AuditiOS 27's Liquid Glass transparency slider ships wrapped in relief-headline coverage, but Grant and Maya think that's the wrong lens entirely. This week's spicy take: shipping a slider isn't the same as shipping accessibility, and burying 'Reduce Transparency' inside Accessibility settings instead of making it a system default might be a dark pattern dressed up as user choice. They run the shipped settings menu against WCAG contrast-ratio math, Nielsen Norman Group's critique of the 'dishonest' Reduce Transparency toggle, the new High Contrast Liquid Glass mode, and the iOS 26.1 'Tinted' control Apple quietly mainstreamed into Display & Brightness instead. Expect a real disagreement between the hosts on whether Apple's fix counts as progress or cover. Listeners walk away with a concrete way to audit their own 'reduce X' toggles for the same default-vs-buried problem. UX, UI, design critique, product design. This is the {day_of_week} episode for week {week_number} of {year}.
- iPhone 18 Pro Leak Sourcing | Pixel AuditGrant and Maya pull up their own pre-keynote scorecard on the iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone — and the spicy opinion up top is that every locked bet on that scorecard was sourced to leaks and previews, not shipped decisions, which is exactly the kind of unverified claim they'd flag in any client's design deck. They dig into three specific bets: the rumored Dynamic Island shrink tied to a single leaker's A/B-test claim, the foldable hinge's rumored sub-0.15mm crease spec, and the WWDC-previewed Liquid Glass refinements like the new system-wide transparency slider. Along the way they use John Ternus's looming first keynote as CEO to ask whether Apple's design language is shifting under new leadership. Walk away knowing how to weight your own design predictions by source count instead of source confidence, and how to catch yourself locking in confidence on a claim that hasn't actually shipped. UX, UI, design critique, product design — this is the sourcing-discipline audit episode.
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- iPhone 18 Pro & Ultra Leaks Audit | Pixel AuditiPhone 18 Pro and the rumored foldable iPhone Ultra get the pixel audit treatment — and our spicy opinion is that most of the internet's 'locked-in' predictions about them can't be graded pass or fail yet, because every report we have is still pre-keynote leak territory, not confirmed UX UI decisions. Grant and Maya stress-test the scorecard's sourcing: the shrunken Dynamic Island cutout Bloomberg's Mark Gurman flagged versus Digital Chat Station's rebuttal, the Liquidmetal hinge rumor supposedly killing the foldable's crease, the iOS 27 transparency slider Apple added after the Liquid Glass backlash, and whether the 14-day announcement pattern actually calls the event date. Expect a product design gut-check on how much confidence a leak deserves before you treat it like a shipped decision, plus one concrete rule for auditing your own predictions ahead of the actual keynote. This is the {day_of_week} episode for week {week_number} of {year}.
- iPhone 18 Pro & Fold Pixel AuditGrant and Maya build a pre-keynote UX scorecard for Apple's September event, betting on the smaller Dynamic Island, the first foldable iPhone, and how Liquid Glass survives a crease. Predictions get locked in before the keynote so next week's audit has receipts.
- Pixel 11 M3 Expressive Pixel AuditGrant and Maya score Google's Pixel 11 rollout against the springy-motion promises of Material 3 Expressive, then argue over the Pixel Watch 5's cautious Wear OS 7 refresh and its $50 price bump.
- Pixel 11 Pixel Audit: Material 3 Goes WideGrant and Maya put the iPhone down and audit Google's Material 3 Expressive now that Android 17 has pushed springy motion and blur past Pixel-only status, one week before the Pixel 11 reveal.
- iOS 27 Public Beta 2 Pixel AuditGrant and Maya install iOS 27 public beta 2 and audit the shipped Siri AI app, the Liquid Glass transparency slider, and Lock Screen changes against the developer build they tore apart earlier.
- Claude Design vs Figma vs Lovable Pixel AuditGrant and Maya run the exact same design brief through Claude Design, Figma Make, and Lovable to find out whose output survives contact with a real design system versus who just ships a good-looking artifact.
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Each week, UX Autopsy puts a specific product's UX and UI under the microscope: layout choices, interaction patterns, color systems, microcopy, accessibility gaps, and the business logic behind every screen. Built for mid-career product designers and UI/UX practitioners who are past the basics and want sharper eyes, not just sharper tools. If you've ever rage-tapped a modal that shouldn't exist, this show is for you.
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