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Product DesignOngoing

Competitive Teardown

Tear down how real, shipped products handle a specific feature or flow — pattern by pattern — and turn it into an opinionated brief of what to adopt, adapt, and deliberately avoid.

What you walk away with

A real document, built from everything you worked through — then critiqued the way a tough reviewer would and polished round by round. Plus a project summary that shows your work.

17 steps in the full journey.

The first 3 questions

This is where the conversation starts. Each answer shapes what gets asked next.

  1. 01What feature or flow are you tearing down, and what product does it live in (or will it live in)?
  2. 02Which real, shipped products should we use as references — ones you admire or that are known to do this flow well? Name at least three, and we can pull up how they actually do it.
  3. 03What job is the user trying to get done in this flow, and in what context — device, frequency, how much urgency or focus they have?

+ 12 more questions across discovery, validation, and the creative brief — each one adapting to what you've already said.

Ready to work through it?

The first five questions of any project are free — no card required.

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