Péter Balázs Polgár
Design explorer. Building products and product design teams.
Currently lead experience designer at Canonical, designing humane human–AI workflows.
What I'm thinking about
Lately
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How I ended up fine-tuning a language model
Fine-tuning a language model for your own purposes is easier than it has ever been. The technical side is a couple of hours of understanding and a few…
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e51 Discovery artifacts are vacation photos, and agents were never there
Teams build shared understanding and intuition through product discovery. Discovery artifacts are an imperfect representation of what was learned, but help the team remember what they did together…
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collage-design, Claude skill for making collage art
I made an agent skill that creates collage images, you can get it here.
2026
- How I ended up fine-tuning a language model
- e51 Discovery artifacts are vacation photos, and agents were never there
- collage-design, Claude skill for making collage art
- Streaming UIs
- Deliberate design practice
- e50 Consistency is spelling, coherence is voice
- AI and clarity of intentions
- Brain fry and the automation trap
- e49 The power of stepping back
- Knowledge workflow 2026 updates: Obsidian, Claude
2025
2024
- AI tools' near future
- Research both known unknowns and unknown unknows
- Design with restraint
- Designing towards hurdles
- e46 Personas are meant to be used, not just created
- e45 Better presentations with the pyramid principle
- e44 Nonviolent communication for designers
- Generative AI's automation trap
- e43 The team's common rituals build the team
- e42 Facilitating participatory design
- e41 Articulating the design team's value
- e40 Prototypes model experiences
- Switching from Evernote to Joplin
2023
- e39 2023 Retrospect
- e38 Maturity models help formulate what good looks like
- e37 Nurturing designer and researcher careers
- UX & PM: A Strategic Duo part 2
- e36 Design team structures - defining how we work
- e35 Develop your leadership style
- e34 Wartime - peacetime design leadership
- e33 Activating insights for the design process
- Anatomy of a UX strategy
- e32 Rigor is essential in user research
- e31 Why writing matters for designers
- e30 Raising the team's empathy
- e29 Managing designers and managing researchers
- e28 Desire paths - following the users' tracks
- Yet another post on designer job titles
- e27 Onboarding designers
- e26 Product trios for designers
- e25 Writing useful hypotheses
- e24 Problem space, solution space
- e23 Celebrating successes is a team effort
- e22 UX strategy - the design team's guide to success
- e21 1-on-1s - strengthening the team with coaching
- e20 Designing meaningful products with AI
- e19 Design audits - improving collaboration, quality, and alignment
- e18 Sustainability for product design teams
- e17 Career ladders chart a path for the team's growth
- e16 Getting deeper with well-formed user interview questions
- e15 Pair design leads to better design collaboration
- e14 Building great design teams with a purposeful hiring process
- e12 Articulating design decisions makes design work transparent
- e11 Design intent clarifies what a design aims to achieve
- e10 Design principles set the foundation for good design
- e09 What is good design
- e08 Writing experience stories for better portfolios
2022
2021
2020
2018
2017
2016
- #stretchcon 2016 impressions
- The 4x4 Mini-Design Brief
- #amuseconf 2016 impressions
- Why Doing Design Research is Imperative
- UX Quotes to the Rescue
- Designing for Mobile Engagement
- Design Camp Adventures
- Drawing Houses
- Clashing Design Principles to Annoy You
- How Might We — Hogyan tudhatnánk
- From design to product design
- #watchlearn Designing How We Design — Kim Goodwin
- About Ford’s faster horses