Media & Entertainment
UX teardowns, frameworks, and field notes for Media & Entertainment products — how clarity plays out across Media & Entertainment.
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Information Architecture
Prime Video UX Teardown: One Yellow Bag for Three Different Bills
A UX teardown of Prime Video's signed-out browse flow: rankings and Most Liked labels get a white tag on every tile, while the cost of watching gets one small yellow bag that means Prime, Paramount+ or a rental, and a Free to me filter that comes back empty without saying why.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · October 6, 2026
UX Writing
HBO Max UX Teardown: The R$22.90 Headline Is an Annual Price
A UX teardown of HBO Max's signed-out browse flow in Brazil: the catalog is easy to evaluate without an account, but the 'plans from R$22.90/month' line on both catalog heroes is the twelve-installment annual price, and the monthly price only appears after a toggle at the bottom of a title page.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · October 7, 2026
Navigation Design
The Guardian UX Teardown: Color-Coded Stories and a $12 Ask at Both Ends of the Visit
A UX teardown of The Guardian's signed-out reading flow: kicker colors that follow the type of story, a $12 reader-support ask above every page we opened, and a header where the only visible 'Search' is a jobs link.
TYPENORMLabs · 6 min · October 1, 2026
Visual Hierarchy
The Atlantic UX Teardown: Two Red Buttons and No Price in View
A UX teardown of The Atlantic's signed-out reading flow: section fronts that open below a fixed advertising band, a 665-pixel reading column, and a subscription gate that offers two equal red buttons without a price in view.
TYPENORMLabs · 6 min · October 2, 2026
Interaction Design
TechCrunch UX Teardown: The Reading Mode That Drops the Date
A UX teardown of TechCrunch's read flow: one switch turns the feed into a dense scan queue and carries the preference into the next section — then removes the timestamp and the content type the returning reader came for.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · September 10, 2026
Information Architecture
Reuters UX Teardown: A Search That Sorts Like a Wire
A UX teardown of Reuters' signed-out read flow: dependable section fronts, an article page that gives the reader its figures early, and a search that ranks 14,934 matches by the clock, then leaves a Business story at the top of a Technology filter.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · September 11, 2026
Information Architecture
Axios UX Teardown: Read Time Everywhere Except the Front Page
A UX teardown of Axios' signed-out read flow: search results priced to the minute, section fronts that give their lead story nothing but a headline and a face, and a newsletter gate that states its price out loud.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · September 12, 2026
Information Architecture
WIRED UX Teardown: One Category Template, Three Different Jobs
A UX teardown of WIRED's category pages: the same template runs Business, Science and Reviews, and what each one puts in its first rail gives away what the section is actually for.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · August 31, 2026
Visual Hierarchy
Washington Post UX Teardown: An Honest Offer, Parked on the Headline
A UX teardown of The Washington Post's signed-out reading flow: the subscription card publishes both prices and the renewal terms, then centres itself over three lines of the headline it's selling.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · September 9, 2026
Information Architecture
Substack UX Teardown: A Reading Product Wired as a Writing Funnel
A UX teardown of Substack's signed-out surfaces: the browse page doesn't browse, 'Top' doesn't mean posts, and the orange button never signs you in.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · August 30, 2026
Information Architecture
Netflix UX Teardown: Selling the Interface by Withholding It
A UX teardown of Netflix's signed-out product: the public title page is the member detail page with the play button swapped for an email field — and the one place the technique stops working.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · September 1, 2026
Information Architecture
Lapa Ninja UX Teardown: 7,462 Landing Pages, One Filter at a Time
A UX teardown of Lapa Ninja's design archive: the site records five axes of metadata per entry and lets you browse by exactly one of them, so a decade of collecting solves storage and leaves retrieval to the visitor.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · August 21, 2026
Information Architecture
Bloomberg UX Teardown: The Free Part Ends Mid-Sentence
A UX teardown of Bloomberg's reading flow: three section pages run on one shell and give away everything, then the article gates after a single paragraph — including the AI summary that would tell you whether to pay.
TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · September 8, 2026
Information Architecture
UX Tools UX Teardown: A Table That Shows Its Sample Size and Still Misleads
A UX teardown of UX Tools' browse surfaces: it prints the sample size next to every number, which almost nobody does, then renders a rating from one response with the same weight as a rating from 1,603.
TYPENORMLabs · 6 min · August 3, 2026
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