# Kate K. > Senior Product Designer I B2B & B2C SaaS Profile: https://flows.cv/katek Senior Product Designer with 9+ years of experience designing dashboard-heavy B2B and B2C SaaS products across web and mobile. Specialized in solving complex product challenges by simplifying multi-layered workflows and building scalable, tokenized design systems for customizable user experiences. Strong background in product processes, from discovery to delivery, with a focus on reducing time on task and enabling future product scalability. Known for clear design documentation and structured decision-making, ensuring alignment across product and engineering teams and supporting long-term product growth. ## Work Experience ### Design Mentor / Chapter Lead of Istanbul @ adplist.org Jan 2024 ADPList is the leading free-to-use mentorship platform with mentors in AI, UI/UX design, product management, software development and marketing. Mentored 100+ hours of designers across 17 countries, helping 6 designers secure their first job, and ranked top 1% mentor on ADPList (May–July). Led community and operations efforts by hosting Istanbul meetups, coordinating mentor/mentee events, and optimizing workflows for 5 startups, increasing project completion rates by 30% and boosting community engagement. ### Product Designer @ DrBalcony Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | California, United States Repolet is a B2B SaaS platform designed to streamline and simplify the inspection process for balconies, walkways, and stairways, ensuring compliance with California's SB326 and SB721 regulations. Our MVP will provide a foundational version of the current product at drbalcony.com, focusing on essential features and functionalities and establishing a solid foundation for future iterations and enhancements. - Delivered MVP and core platform features across 16 product sprints, designing responsive SaaS dashboards and mobile experiences for 5 distinct user roles (admins, experts, tenants, leads, super admins), enabling multi-role workflows while maintaining a unified product experience across mobile and dashboard environments. Architected two tokenized design systems (core + brand-specific) supporting 5 products and 3 brands (light & dark modes), unifying previously inconsistent interfaces, enabling faster product scaling, and improving design–development handoff speed by 40% while introducing structured design documentation across teams. Designed and optimized inspection workflows and validation systems (CAD ↔ CEX), reducing incomplete reports and preventing costly rework, saving $12+ per inspection (EEE) and lowering financial loss at scale, while supporting product growth aligned with roadmap targets of $1M+ ARR (Repolet) and $5M+ projected ARR (Designer). ### Product Designer @ Etrexio Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Istanbul, Türkiye Etrexio is a development service provider supporting startups and companies globally in building digital products. Led UI/UX design across 8+ B2B and B2C products, introducing a structured design-to-development workflow with design systems, documentation, and weekly syncs, reducing delivery time by 65% (from ~3 months to 1 month), decreasing post-development bugs by ~50%, and improving task completion speed and usability across complex responsive dashboards. Developed a scalable tokenized design system with 200+ reusable components, reducing design–development misalignment by ~40%, minimizing back-and-forth iterations by ~35%, and accelerating feature delivery by ~30% while ensuring consistent UI across dashboard and e-commerce products. ### Product Designer @ FlexiTrace Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Istanbul, Türkiye AI-driven motion analysis platform delivering biomechanics insights for athletes and coaches. Drove the design and iteration of an AI/VR-based sports analysis mobile application across 4 product cycles (11 months), restructuring a complex feature-heavy product into 5 streamlined user flows to break stakeholder-driven design loops, enabling ~40% faster time-to-market and successful early-stage release. Executed user research with 8+ domain experts and synthesized insights from 30+ biomechanics workflows to redesign motion analysis interfaces, improving usability for non-expert users and increasing analytics accuracy by ~20–25%, validated against laboratory benchmarks and expert evaluations. ### Product Designer @ YekZan Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Yekzan is a women’s health application focused on period, pregnancy, and breastfeeding tracking. Re-architected user flows and modernized the UI for Yekzan and Kidibo by redesigning information architecture and replacing outdated components with scalable, Auto Layout–based patterns, resulting in ~20% faster task completion, ~30% fewer QA-reported issues, and improved user clarity based on support feedback. Introduced a scalable design system with reusable components, tokens, and developer-aligned style guidelines, enabling single-point updates across screens, increasing design–development alignment, and reducing redesign and delivery time by 25% based on sprint velocity improvements. ### Product Designer @ Graph Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Cybersecurity company providing B2B solutions to secure file transfers and protect systems from malware and external threats. Performed end-to-end heuristic evaluation using Nielsen’s principles, identifying 60 usability issues and prioritizing fixes across core user flows, reducing friction in security processes and improving overall task success and user experience consistency. Collaborated with Product Owner and engineers via Jira and Confluence to define user stories and test scenarios, reducing functional errors by ~30% and improving workflow reliability through clearer requirements and structured validation. ### Product Designer @ kondorliga Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mazandaran - Designing and executing surveys to determine the weakness of the current UI and assessing potential solutions. - User Research. - Analyzing existing data structure and developing physical and logical data models with Amplitude and Uxcam. - Design Wireframes, Persona, Customer Journey Map, User Flow, Lean Canvas, Customer Segment, and Empathy Map. - Redesigned company websites and applications to improve the visual appearance and user experience. - Create a better color palette for application and social media identity. - Test products before publish and Manage debug process. - Design Thinking and create new platform ideas. - Write documents and management teams with Jira software and Notion. ### UI/UX Designer @ Unierr Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Mazandaran Contributed to 7+ international client projects across e-commerce, gaming, and web platforms within a 4-person team, delivering end-to-end UI/UX solutions, conducting usability testing and research, and ensuring culturally adapted user experiences across diverse markets while supporting QA validation before launch. Evolved from 2D animator to product-focused UI/UX designer, expanding scope to user research, product thinking, and cross-functional collaboration with PMs and engineers, increasing design impact across projects and enabling more user-centered, visually engaging solutions. ### UI/UX Design Intern @ Unierr Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Babolsar County, Mazandaran Province, Iran ## Education ### Bachelor's degree Doğuş University ### Bachelor's degree University of Mazandaran ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/katekhonakdar - Portfolio: https://katekhonakdar.framer.website/ - Portfolio: https://katekhonakdar.framer.website - Email: mailto:k.khonakdar@gmail.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/katek JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/katek/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-16