AI audits·9 min
What an AI UX audit actually is (and what it can't catch)
Four very different technologies sell under one label. The difference that matters: does the AI look at your product, or does it use it? Receipts included, ours too.
Jul 10, 2026
Teardown·11 min
A complete heuristic evaluation, run on the worst app we could imagine
Most guides list Nielsen's 10 heuristics and stop. This one runs the entire method on Driftly, a fictional project tracker that violates every single one, and shows the report card.
Jul 10, 2026
Receipts·10 min
We traced 17 famous UX statistics to their sources. Five have none.
The $1-to-$100 Forrester stat has no Forrester report behind it. The Stanford 75% is really 46.1% of comments. A filterable ledger of every verdict, with primary sources and citations that hold up.
Jul 10, 2026
Money·8 min
UX audit cost in 2026: the median is $500, not $25,000
Agency blogs say $3,000 to $75,000. The 20 sellers who actually publish prices say median $500. We pulled every rate card we could find and show the math, the caveats, and which tier fits your stage.
Jul 10, 2026
Do it yourself·10 min
The founder's UX audit checklist: 24 checks, 3 flows, one afternoon
Whole-product audits are noise before product-market fit. Audit the 3 flows every user actually hits: signup, first session, core loop. 24 falsifiable checks, each with a named rule, scored live as you tick.
Jul 10, 2026
Teardown·8 min
Your signup is a bouncer, and the line outside is leaving
Every signup post recycles the same abandonment stats, and half are stale. We walk the five-step signup gauntlet with primary-source receipts, correct the famous 26% myth to Baymard's current 19%, and ship each fix as a ticket.
Jul 10, 2026
AI audits·9 min
4 ChatGPT UX audit prompts that work (and the wall they all hit)
Free, genuinely good prompts for landing pages, forms, copy, and heuristic passes. Then the receipts on what no prompt can see: Baymard clocked screenshot audits at 14% of live-page issues.
Jul 10, 2026
AI audits·8 min
AI agents, synthetic users, real users, or your own eyes: four ways to find out your UX sucks
Synthetic users simulate opinions. Agents execute your flows. Real people remain the only source of truth. One big table with the misses column left in, plus a picker that tells you which method to run this month.
Jul 10, 2026
Workflow·7 min
The anatomy of a UX ticket an engineer accepts without a meeting
Your audit found 20 real problems and every one is dying in a Google Doc. The 5 fields that get a UX finding through triage without a meeting, plus copy-paste templates for Jira and Linear.
Jul 10, 2026
Field guide·8 min
Vibe-coded app UX: the 7 defects AI ships every time
Lovable, Bolt, v0, and Cursor all ship the same UX defects, because they learned frontend from a web where 95.9% of the top million home pages fail WCAG checks. The upside of predictable: you can catch the whole set in a 20-minute keyboard-and-contrast pass, no designer required.
Jul 10, 2026