UX Murder Mystery Podcast

Hosted by Brian Crowley and Eve Eden

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Where do true crime, business and technology intersect? When another product has been found dead. The cause? UX failure.

We investigate what's killing your customer experience. Think true crime, but for failed designs.

We dig into the real stories behind UX disasters. Every case has clues. Every problem has a solution.

Latest Episode

One Line of Code: How TurboTax Killed Free Tax Filing

Free. Free. Free. Free. You saw the ad. What you did not see was the free product they buried so you could not find it.

There was a genuinely free way to file your taxes, and about a hundred million people qualified for it. Then one line of code told the internet it did not exist, and the company that ran it eventually walked away from the program entirely. The free product died. The paid one is doing just fine.

The victim is IRS Free File. The prime suspect is TurboTax. And the murder weapon is the one thing Eve spends her career trying to get companies to take seriously: the ROI of design.

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