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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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26 episodes, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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.
- iOS 27 Siri Sliders Pixel AuditGrant and Maya go hands-on with iOS 27 beta 3 the week it drops, auditing the new Siri Pace and Expressivity sliders, the standalone Siri app, and Apple's Liquid Glass transparency fix against the promises made at WWDC.
- Figma Motion Pixel AuditGrant and Maya put Figma Motion on the autopsy table six days after its open beta launch, arguing over whether a native timeline with keyframes and presets actually replaces specialist animation workflows or just hands every junior designer a new way to ship jank.
- Figma Make Pipeline Pixel AuditGrant and Maya put Figma Make's design-to-code pipeline under the autopsy lamp the morning before Dylan Field's Config 2026 keynote, scoring whether the MCP server integration and production codebase workflow actually hold up against a real design system or just ship plausible-looking junk.
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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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