[VIP] UI/UX Course: Doing Design Right

Doing Design Right: A UI/UX Course Built on a Real App, Not a Fake One

Most UI/UX courses teach design in a vacuum. You get a clean brief, an ideal user, and a blank Figma file. Real work almost never looks like that. You inherit an existing product — legacy screens, inconsistent patterns, users who've adapted to the flaws, and a business that won't let you rebuild everything from scratch.

Doing Design Right, a course by Victor Ponamariov, is built around that reality. Instead of designing an imaginary app, the course dissects and redesigns Fedica, a real application with over 2 million users. You watch how an experienced designer diagnoses what's broken, decides what's worth fixing, and rebuilds it — piece by piece.

What the course actually covers

The 47 lessons are organized around a practical arc rather than a theory dump:

• Usability heuristics and UX laws (Jakob's Law, Fitts's Law, Hick's Law, cognitive load) — but applied directly to Fedica's existing screens, not abstract examples.
• Core design principles: contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity.
• A full redesign walkthrough of Fedica's post-creation flow, time slots, pipelines, post displays, and final screens — from "what's wrong with the current version" to a shipped-quality redesign.

Each module pairs a UX concept with the specific interface problem it solves, so the theory never floats free of a real decision.

Why this approach matters

Recognizing a usability heuristic in a textbook example is easy. Recognizing it in a cluttered, three-year-old production screen with technical constraints and shipped user habits is the actual skill designers get paid for. This course trains that muscle specifically — analyzing an existing interface and finding where it fails, rather than starting from a blank page.

Who's teaching it

Victor Ponamariov has spent 13+ years building digital products. He's written two design books, published 100+ UI/UX tips, and writes a newsletter followed by 8,500+ designers and developers. He left his full-time job to build this course, describing it as "not a Figma tutorial, but a hands-on guide to thinking like a designer."

The details

• 47 lessons: video, written breakdowns, illustrations, external resources — with new content still being added.
• Several lessons are free to preview before buying.
• $97, with a 30-day no-questions-asked refund.
• Includes two bonus books: 100 UI/UX Tips and Re:Form.

If you already know the theory and want to practice the harder skill — spotting what's actually wrong with a real product and fixing it — this is built for that gap.