Péter Balázs Polgár

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Blog

  1. Open intent software
  2. Ration: Claude usage in your menubar
  3. How I ended up fine-tuning a language model
  4. collage-design, Claude skill for making collage art
  5. Streaming UIs
  6. Deliberate design practice
  7. AI and clarity of intentions
  8. Brain fry and the automation trap
  9. Knowledge workflow 2026 updates: Obsidian, Claude
  10. AI lacks intentionality
  11. Workflow change types with automation
  12. Evaluating managers
  13. To care about well-being is system maintenance
  14. AI tools' near future
  15. Research both known unknowns and unknown unknows
  16. Design with restraint
  17. Designing towards hurdles
  18. Generative AI's automation trap
  19. Switching from Evernote to Joplin
  20. UX & PM: A Strategic Duo part 2
  21. Anatomy of a UX strategy
  22. Yet another post on designer job titles
  23. Newsletter on Design Leadership
  24. UX Coffee Hours FAQ
  25. My knowledge workflow 2021
  26. Personas are for aggregation or for alignment
  27. Design is business
  28. #stretchcon 2020 impressions
  29. Designing the Growth Path for UX Leaders and UX Managers
  30. Plan to learn — on well designed research plans
  31. Designing AI products
  32. Making sure your UX home assignment hits the mark
  33. Tipping is sexy
  34. #stretchcon 2016 impressions
  35. The 4x4 Mini-Design Brief
  36. #amuseconf 2016 impressions
  37. Why Doing Design Research is Imperative
  38. UX Quotes to the Rescue
  39. Designing for Mobile Engagement
  40. Design Camp Adventures
  41. Drawing Houses
  42. Clashing Design Principles to Annoy You
  43. How Might We — Hogyan tudhatnánk
  44. From design to product design
  45. #watchlearn Designing How We Design — Kim Goodwin
  46. About Ford’s faster horses
  47. #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. e52 Assumptions draw the edge of the solution space, and agents draw it tighter
  2. e51 Discovery artifacts are vacation photos, and agents were never there
  3. e50 Consistency is spelling, coherence is voice
  4. e49 The power of stepping back
  5. e48 Combating groupthink
  6. e47 Discovery is more than user research
  7. e46 Personas are meant to be used, not just created
  8. e45 Better presentations with the pyramid principle
  9. e44 Nonviolent communication for designers
  10. e43 The team's common rituals build the team
  11. e42 Facilitating participatory design
  12. e41 Articulating the design team's value
  13. e40 Prototypes model experiences
  14. e39 2023 Retrospect
  15. e38 Maturity models help formulate what good looks like
  16. e37 Nurturing designer and researcher careers
  17. e36 Design team structures - defining how we work
  18. e35 Develop your leadership style
  19. e34 Wartime - peacetime design leadership
  20. e33 Activating insights for the design process
  21. e32 Rigor is essential in user research
  22. e31 Why writing matters for designers
  23. e30 Raising the team's empathy
  24. e29 Managing designers and managing researchers
  25. e28 Desire paths - following the users' tracks
  26. e27 Onboarding designers
  27. e26 Product trios for designers
  28. e25 Writing useful hypotheses
  29. e24 Problem space, solution space
  30. e23 Celebrating successes is a team effort
  31. e22 UX strategy - the design team's guide to success
  32. e21 1-on-1s - strengthening the team with coaching
  33. e20 Designing meaningful products with AI
  34. e19 Design audits - improving collaboration, quality, and alignment
  35. e18 Sustainability for product design teams
  36. e17 Career ladders chart a path for the team's growth
  37. e16 Getting deeper with well-formed user interview questions
  38. e15 Pair design leads to better design collaboration
  39. e14 Building great design teams with a purposeful hiring process
  40. e12 Articulating design decisions makes design work transparent
  41. e11 Design intent clarifies what a design aims to achieve
  42. e10 Design principles set the foundation for good design
  43. e09 What is good design
  44. e08 Writing experience stories for better portfolios
  45. e07 Player-coach leaders
  46. e06 Delight is great UX
  47. e05 Teams of T-shaped designers
  48. e04 Writing great job ads
  49. e03 Structuring research notes
  50. e02 Brag doc - Keeping track of wins
  51. e01 Design critique - a core practice for design teams
  52. Welcome to 9am26