I’m Hakan — a Senior Product Designer and design systems specialist currently working at Xero.

Over the past decade, I’ve designed digital experiences for tools, teams, and platforms used by many. I’ve worked across both agency and in-house environments, partnering with brands like Bunnings, AustralianSuper, BMW, KFC, HESTA, Nissan, and Kmart.

📌 Design, to me

I design for clarity, consistency, and scale – and I thrive in the messy middle between user needs, business goals, and engineering constraints.

I'm most energised when I'm:

↳ Designing thoughtful systems that empower teams
↳ Collaborating deeply across functions to get the details right
↳ Bringing order to complexity without over-polishing it
↳ Balancing design quality with speed, pragmatism, and inclusion

🧰 How I work

↳ End-to-end across research, design, documentation, and delivery
↳ Advocate for accessibility, scalability, and team health
↳ Fluent in design systems, UI patterns, and shared libraries
↳ Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building alignment in complex orgs
↳ Obsessed with Figma workflows and love tinkering with tokens + VSS

🎧 Outside of design

🏀 Basketball is the main sport
🎛 Big on music production and beat-making Soundcloud
🎧 DJ Shadow, J Dilla, and MF Doom on rotation
👔 Repeatedly rewatching The Office
👨‍💻 Lately been vibe-coding all sorts of tools

💬 Can you see my screen?

I’m always up for new projects, collaborations, or conversations – whether it’s systems, music, AI doomscrolling, or whatever rabbit hole we end up in.

EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION