Péter Balázs Polgár

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Blog

  1. collage-design, Claude skill for making collage art
  2. Streaming UIs
  3. Deliberate design practice
  4. AI and clarity of intentions
  5. Brain fry and the automation trap
  6. Knowledge workflow 2026 updates: Obsidian, Claude
  7. AI lacks intentionality
  8. Workflow change types with automation
  9. Evaluating managers
  10. To care about well-being is system maintence
  11. AI tools' near future
  12. Research both known unknowns and unknown unknows
  13. Design with restraint
  14. Designing towards hurdles
  15. Generative AI's automation trap
  16. Switching from Evernote to Joplin
  17. UX & PM: A Strategic Duo part 2
  18. Anatomy of a UX strategy
  19. Yet another post on designer job titles
  20. Newsletter on Design Leadership
  21. UX Coffee Hours FAQ
  22. My knowledge workflow 2021
  23. Personas are for aggregation or for alignment
  24. Design is business
  25. #stretchcon 2020 impressions
  26. Designing the Growth Path for UX Leaders and UX Managers
  27. Plan to learn — on well designed research plans
  28. Designing AI products
  29. Making sure your UX home assignment hits the mark
  30. Tipping is sexy
  31. #stretchcon 2016 impressions
  32. The 4x4 Mini-Design Brief
  33. #amuseconf 2016 impressions
  34. Why Doing Design Research is Imperative
  35. UX Quotes to the Rescue
  36. Designing for Mobile Engagement
  37. Design Camp Adventures
  38. Drawing Houses
  39. Clashing Design Principles to Annoy You
  40. How Might We — Hogyan tudhatnánk
  41. From design to product design
  42. #watchlearn Designing How We Design — Kim Goodwin
  43. About Ford’s faster horses
  44. #stretchcon 2015 impressions

Garden

  1. Design critique - classifying insights
  2. Discovery differs from delivery
  3. Design innovation
  4. Staff designers
  5. UX strategy
  6. Opportunity solution trees
  7. Hypothesis
  8. Strategic vs tactical research
  9. Experience stories
  10. Setting design OKRs
  11. Design leader activities
  12. First three months
  13. Types of vision
  14. Garden
  15. Planning design activities
  16. 1on1s
  17. Accessibility
  18. Personas
  19. Recommended resources for beginners
  20. Design Principles

Newsletter

  1. e51 Discovery artifacts are vacation photos, and agents were never there
  2. e50 Consistency is spelling, coherence is voice
  3. e49 The power of stepping back
  4. e48 Combating groupthink
  5. e47 Discovery is more than user research
  6. e46 Personas are meant to be used, not just created
  7. e45 Better presentations with the pyramid principle
  8. e44 Nonviolent communication for designers
  9. e43 The team's common rituals build the team
  10. e42 Facilitating participatory design
  11. e41 Articulating the design team's value
  12. e40 Prototypes model experiences
  13. e39 2023 Retrospect
  14. e38 Maturity models help formulate what good looks like
  15. e37 Nurturing designer and researcher careers
  16. e36 Design team structures - defining how we work
  17. e35 Develop your leadership style
  18. e34 Wartime - peacetime design leadership
  19. e33 Activating insights for the design process
  20. e32 Rigor is essential in user research
  21. e31 Why writing matters for designers
  22. e30 Raising the team's empathy
  23. e29 Managing designers and managing researchers
  24. e28 Desire paths - following the users' tracks
  25. e27 Onboarding designers
  26. e26 Product trios for designers
  27. e25 Writing useful hypotheses
  28. e24 Problem space, solution space
  29. e23 Celebrating successes is a team effort
  30. e22 UX strategy - the design team's guide to success
  31. e21 1-on-1s - strengthening the team with coaching
  32. e20 Designing meaningful products with AI
  33. e19 Design audits - improving collaboration, quality, and alignment
  34. e18 Sustainability for product design teams
  35. e17 Career ladders chart a path for the team's growth
  36. e16 Getting deeper with well-formed user interview questions
  37. e15 Pair design leads to better design collaboration
  38. e14 Building great design teams with a purposeful hiring process
  39. e12 Articulating design decisions makes design work transparent
  40. e11 Design intent clarifies what a design aims to achieve
  41. e10 Design principles set the foundation for good design
  42. e09 What is good design
  43. e08 Writing experience stories for better portfolios
  44. e07 Player-coach leaders
  45. e06 Delight is great UX
  46. e05 Teams of T-shaped designers
  47. e04 Writing great job ads
  48. e03 Structuring research notes
  49. e02 Brag doc - Keeping track of wins
  50. e01 Design critique - a core practice for design teams
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