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Teardowns — frame
by frame, screen
by screen.

Close readings of specific app surfaces — onboarding flows, settings screens, pricing pages, billing flows. We walk through them with the teams who built them, when possible. Otherwise we walk through them carefully on our own.

Recent teardowns.

Onboarding flow
teardown · onboarding

Why this onboarding takes eleven screens — and works.

A frame-by-frame look at a recent fintech onboarding flow that breaks every shorthand rule of mobile UX and, somehow, retains better than its three-screen rivals.

Marek Anders · 12 minRead teardown →
Notification settings
teardown · notifications

A push-notification settings screen worth stealing from.

One small productivity app, three thoughtful choices, almost no copy.

Priya Naidoo · 7 minRead teardown →