Two designers pick apart real apps, websites, and interfaces, arguing over what works and what's broken. 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.
Plex's TV navigation is the benchmark for a genuine UX regression, and calling the backlash "just change aversion" is how product teams stop reading complaints. This Tuesday episode for week 43 of 2026 puts three redesigns on trial in a product design critique from Pixel Audit, asking one question of each: is this a feeling or a measurable problem?
The hosts examine these specific UI elements:
- YouTube's test comment sidebar, with large thumbnails under the player and always-visible comments that raise spoiler and accidental-click concerns
- Discord's mobile gift button, and whether it was moved or only made less prominent next to the + menu
- Plex's left-side navigation, restored after the press-left muscle-memory path was broken
- Android Authority's reporting and Discord's Google Play reviews, and why a share of complaints is not a share of users
Listeners will walk away knowing how to separate change aversion from a true regression, using a seven-item checklist that covers the specific task, step count, harm versus taste, persistence, user exit, and a rollback trigger set before launch. Screenshot a UI that bugs you and tag us, and subscribe for next week's audit.
13 Oct 2026
Vote.gov & HealthCare.gov | Pixel Audit
This Tuesday episode for week 42 of 2026 opens at Vote.gov's state-selection screen, where Maya argues a failed registration form is the worst bounce in product design. Grant counters that these sites are constrained, not lazy. It's a UX and UI design critique of two government flows that peak together: the Nov. 3 midterm election and HealthCare.gov open enrollment, which starts Nov. 1.
- The Vote.gov handoff to state sites, and what a user needs to know the moment they leave the federal site
- A mailed paper-form fallback path, plus sent versus received deadline wording
- HealthCare.gov's two-deadline banner, with two labeled date lines and a start date on the confirmation screen
- Plan-comparison screens under higher premiums, including a repayment-cap explanation as one worked example in dollars
The hosts also cover accessibility basics such as screen-reader announcements and reading order. You will walk away knowing how to design clear handoffs, label every deadline, and build a plan-comparison checklist you can apply in your own product design work.
6 Oct 2026
Figma's Agent Credit Meter | Pixel Audit
Figma's credit screen for the design agent and Weave tools, which leave open beta today, is a meter running before you have said where you are going, and Maya argues it deserves the same suspicion as a sketchy client paywall. In this Tuesday episode for week 41 of 2026, Pixel Audit hosts Grant and Maya run a UX and UI design critique of the shared AI credit pool that now covers the agent, Weave and Figma Make.
This product design audit sticks to confirmed facts and says so when something is unpublished. The design elements discussed:
- The pricing page pool per seat, a known wallet size with no per-prompt cost
- The conflict between release notes and the help article on Starter eligibility
- The left-rail and on-canvas entry points and the @-mention flow for tokens and components
- Collaborator-visible chats and how a shared screen can shape behavior
You will walk away knowing how to run the client-paywall test (cost before action, clear balance, escape hatch) on any metered tool, and how to tell a protective pause from a taxing one.
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