Learn, Teach, Organize

I started as a computer science major and realised pretty quickly that the part I cared about was how software actually gets used. I steered my courses that way. Somewhere along the line I noticed that the people around me wanted to make better products too, and that helping them was as interesting as doing the work myself.

So I teach software ergonomics to other computer science students to spread what I already had learned. I continue to teach and advocate for UX in some ways ever since.

Meetup talk

Besides teaching, I also started to write, I was one of the first bloggers writing in Hungary about UX. That’s how I met other people who were also working in this field. It turned out we need more time to talk. My desire to connect with and grow the community led me to co-found the UX Budapest meetup. What began as ten people grabbing a beer to talk about user needs quickly grew into a large community of professionals. This experience taught me how to shape a passionate group into a collaborative community, laying the groundwork for how I build design teams today.

Introduction on a meetup

I stopped being an organizer of the meetup, but I do smaller design thinking workshops and teach on courses now and then. In my workshops and courses, I focus on the methods that are central to my leadership philosophy. We explore user research and discovery to make better product decisions, and practice collaborative design to foster the kind of teamwork needed to design coherent user journeys.

Conference talk

My overall mission remains the same: I believe that leadership is about being a force multiplier. By inspiring, teaching, and enabling others, I continue to learn and strengthen my ability to build strong design teams and work with the broader community.