Victor Ponamariov

A practical UX review of an Armenian medical aggregator, focused on search, information architecture, hidden inputs, and layout shifts.

Three practical UI/UX wins: smart email typo handling, choosing switches vs segmented controls, and preventing flex-shrink layout bugs.

A subtle dropdown usability issue: when visible items perfectly fill container height, users may miss that the list is scrollable.

Why horizontal tabs are often a bad fit for product pages, and why vertically collapsed sections are easier to discover.

A practical walkthrough of common usability problems in a legacy sign-up form: hierarchy, copy, validation, accessibility, and tiny UI details.

A practical walkthrough of five Nielsen usability heuristics with examples: recognition over recall, flexibility, minimal design, error recovery, and documentation.

A practical explanation of OKLCH: where it comes from, how it relates to CIE 1931, RGB, sRGB, P3, and why it helps with accessible color work.

Practical CSS combination for balancing accessibility preferences, browser support, and performance when using backdrop-filter.

A quick explanation of CSS env() and safe-area-inset variables, with practical examples for plain CSS and Tailwind.

What the .well-known URI is, why it matters for UX, and how the change-password and security.txt endpoints help users and security researchers.

A smart right-click interaction pattern for brand logos: instead of blocking users, provide useful brand actions and assets.

A quick UI/UX teardown of a banking screen: grouping issues, unclear labels, spacing inconsistency, and overloaded card-focused layout.

Why :focus-visible is often better than :focus for interaction polish and accessibility, with visual comparisons.

A neat alert text selection trick using ::selection, with caution to validate contrast for accessibility.

Two real payment UX cases: one blocks retrying an existing method, another hides adding a new method.

A small CSS/UI enhancement that makes text highlights cleaner and more intentional, with before/after comparison.

A simple CSS trick with grayscale(): use it on images, logos, or even on the whole page to inspect visual hierarchy without color.

A practical look at the visibility of system status heuristic: how to keep users informed with clear feedback, loaders, progress, and status indicators.

Bluesky has recently broke through 30M users and doesn't want to stop.

Affordances and signifiers are key concepts in UX.

Placing text on images seems easy — until users upload their own.

Modals look like an easy solution to many UI problems — but they can cause more harm than good.

Should required fields be marked with an asterisk?

Should your app use horizontal or vertical navigation?

Optimistic UI is a technique that makes your app feel instant by showing success before confirmation.

User attention is what everyone tries to get.

Recently I posted on Twitter a list of 58 links about designing different UI elements.