Krisztián HADI

Senior Product Designer & Design Engineer

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Professional Summary

I'm a multidisciplinary product designer and design engineer with over 20 years of experience crafting digital products across advertising, gaming, SaaS, and adult entertainment. I've led design for platforms with 20M+ daily users, and I've pushed measurable improvements in accessibility, user experience, and conversion. I care about accessibility, open source, and transparent collaboration — and about closing the gap between design and development.

I'm looking for remote Senior Product Designer, Design Engineer, or Lead roles — SaaS, open source, or privacy-focused teams.

Core Competencies

UX/UI Design

User Experience, User Research, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Design Thinking, A/B Testing, Accessibility (a11y), Mobile-First Design.

Product Strategy

Product Ownership, Roadmap Planning, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Team Leadership, Mentoring, UX Auditing.

Design & Prototyping

Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD), Framer, Webflow.

Frontend Development

HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, Vue, TypeScript, React, Responsive Design, Browser Prototyping.

Other Tools

Git, Jira, Slack, PHP, Node.js, Gulp, VSCodium, Open-weight LLMs (DeepSeek, GLM).

Soft Skills

Problem Solving, Cross-functional Collaboration, Storytelling, Empathy, Adaptability.

Work Experience

Woodlaine Digital Services

Head of UI/UX Design
2022–2025 @ Cyprus / Remote

Led UI/UX strategy for AdultWork — the UK's largest adult entertainment portal, with more than 2 million daily visitors. That meant a complete UX audit and a redesign of the main product.

Started the design system and kept it going, which held multiple platforms consistent and took friction out of design-to-development handoff.

Took ownership of an experimental spinoff project (Hotica) — branding, UI/UX, and frontend development — through to a successful launch.

Worked with a partner payment processor, giving them UI development support to improve the integration.

Managed stakeholder relationships, and kept the design work pointed at business goals.

LogMeIn / GoTo / LastPass

Senior Product Designer
2021–2022 @ Hungary / Remote

Joined a small "SWAT" team that got dropped onto high-priority, cross-functional projects.

Led the complete accessibility overhaul for LastPass — WCAG compliance went up 14%.

Designed and built internal tools for project teams, which made workflows quicker and more productive across GoTo products.

Worked side by side with developers and product managers to ship features under tight deadlines.

KREA Contemporary Arts Institute

Teacher and Faculty Lead for UI/UX Design
2018–2022 @ Hungary

Developed and delivered the UI/UX curriculum, mentoring students in design thinking, research, prototyping, and frontend development.

Coordinated with the other instructors as faculty lead, and kept refining the program based on student feedback and what the industry was asking for.

IndieBill

Founding Product Designer, Frontend Developer & Product Owner
2017–2020 @ Hungary / Remote

Led a cross-functional team of five (developers, sysadmin, support) — daily maintenance on one hand, the bigger product moves on the other.

Rebuilt it from the monolith into microservices, which made the system easier to scale and maintain.

Built the content moderation flow and tooling with a JS developer, wrote the guidelines, and trained six moderators.

Tested new product ideas by building prototypes and MVPs, validating them against user feedback and research.

Crytek

Senior Web Designer & UI Developer (Warface)
2016–2017 @ Germany

Ran the game's web hub for the F2P game Warface as its dedicated web designer, building campaign landing pages.

Designed and hand-coded the seasonal, story-driven landing pages (HTML/CSS/JS) that hyped the community — marketing and UX in one.

Designed and built the Warface Auction House, a player-to-player economy feature, over many iterations with a multi-studio, international team.

Result: a community hit, with credit sales up 30%+, and it became a core feature people actually used.

Campoint

Senior Product Designer (Visit-X)
2015 @ Germany

Led the complete redesign for Visit-X, one of the biggest adult entertainment platforms in Germany.

Kept the work user-first, to lift the overall experience and engagement on the platform.

Worked with stakeholders to define a fresh, modern direction — and then to implement it, in line with business goals.

Docler Holding

Senior UI/UX Designer (LiveJasmin)
2013–2015 @ Luxembourg

Designed for LiveJasmin, the world's most popular adult live chat platform with more than 20 million daily visitors.

Redesigned the mobile experience with app-like interfaces on mobile web — the way around app store restrictions at the time.

Refined the payment system through A/B testing and research, making the critical in-show credit purchase process faster and more intuitive.

Led the design for "LiveJasmin Goes Glamorous" — the visual style and user flows for a brand-new product aimed at a mainstream audience.

Karmamedia

Senior Art Director
2013 @ Hungary

Built digital campaigns as a Senior Art Director for Telekom, Snickers, Whiskas, Pedigree, and Tesco.

Possible CEE

Digital Designer
2011–2012 @ Hungary

Designed digital campaigns for CitiBank, Telenor, Hauser, Nivea, MOL, and Telekom.

RedWorks / Ogilvy

Digital Art Director
2010–2011 @ Hungary

Designed and art directed campaigns for Milka, Generali, Erste Bank, CIB Bank, Dove, and Nivea. The Hipnozis Advertisement Awards honored two of those projects.

Magnet-X 2000

Graphic & Web Designer, Frontend Developer
2010–2011 @ Hungary

Worked alongside a backend developer, building digital solutions for government agencies and the local municipality.

Eyedea

UI Designer & .NET Developer
2008–2009 @ Hungary

Joined a three-person team that got in early on Microsoft Silverlight, building the digital version of Hungary's most important historical codex alongside Microsoft.

Microsoft

Student Consultant & Web Designer
2006–2008 @ Hungary / Remote

Ran events and activities for developer students, and supported the programming teachers.

Built several community forums on the ASP.NET platform, again working closely with Microsoft.

Awknet

Web Designer & Full Stack Developer
2005–2007 @ Hungary / Remote

Delivered full-stack PHP projects across various areas as the only developer and designer, and helped the sysadmin with Linux server administration.

Side Projects

Lost Signals

Founder & Design Engineer
2026–Present

Building FOSS web apps for needs I run into myself and in the community: job application tracking, meal logging, photo galleries.

Pandastic Creative Studio

Founder & Lead Designer
2012–2014 @ Hungary

Founded a creative studio, running client projects and delivering design across various media. Clients included Absolut Vodka, Volvo, MacWorld, Apple, and Canon.

Education

Apolka Art School

Graphic and Brand Design
2009 @ Hungary

Pannon University

Completed coursework in Programmer Mathematics
2005–2008 @ Hungary

Left to go freelance as a full-stack web developer, building on early experience at Microsoft and Awknet.

József Jáky Technical High School

Faculty of Architecture
2001–2005 @ Hungary

Additional Information

Languages

Hungarian (Native), English (Fluent)

Work Authorization

Eligible to work in the EU (Hungarian citizen, EU tax residency)

Remote Setup

6+ years working remotely, 4+ of them as a digital nomad. Fiber at 700–800 Mbps with 5G backup. I keep EU hours.

Contracting

Available full-time or as a contractor (Estonian e-company setup in progress, so invoicing stays EU-compliant).

Interests

Traditional Thai Massage (studying), Black & White Photography, Playing Handpan & Electronic Instruments.