Péter Balázs Polgár
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Péter Balázs Polgár

Product Design Advisor in Copenhagen, He/him

I keep forgetting things

2 years ago

About

I'm an experienced product design leader with 7+ years of experience building and managing onsite and distributed UX / design teams. I’m focused on raising design maturity, improving product discovery, and guiding the product vision, with a special ❤️ for UX research.

Side Projects

Ongoing

9am26 is my biweekly newsletter on all things product design leadership: design and research practice, managing people and teams, finding our places in tech product orgs, scaling and maturity, describing best practices and new ways of being a design leader from great companies and design teams.

Work Experience

2021 — 2023
Remote

I helped to establish the product design team and practice.

  • Designed speech coaching and noise cancellation features in Krisp’s desktop apps
  • Raised the user research maturity by iteratively introducing new practices and coaching team members
2018 — 2021
Copenhagen, Denmark

I lead a team of designers and researchers working on Trustpilot’s B2B apps.

  • Lead a major IA redesign for a focused UX and strategic alignment
  • Established design critique and research insight sharing practices
  • Set design strategy based on a maturity assessment
2015 — 2018
Budapest, Hungary

I built a 16-person team of designers and researchers, establishing the design organization and practice working on Emarsys’s marketing cloud platform.

  • Created a design process from discovery to delivery
  • Defined design org setup, hiring practices, professional ladder
  • Set a unified design vision and created the design system
2011 — 2015
Budapest, Hungary

I worked in several cross-functional teams partnering up with product managers, engineers, and designers.

  • Used a variety of qual and quant methods to drive discovery
  • Worked on presentation editor, collaboration features, mobile apps

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