About — I am Turkish multi-disciplinary designer of useful and beautiful products. I am currently living in

Izmir,Turkey.

I have studied computer programming since high school. During my high school years, I had a chance to work as a layout designer at the local newspaper, and with this experience, I've realized that I am interested in the design side of things. According to that, I started my career by dropping out of my bachelor's degree at 19 with grand plans of becoming a software engineer.



I've had the chance to help companies validate, prototype, and design digital products that help improve how we live today. I took part in the entire design process, from the research process to the go-live.


HMDSA, 2014 — I started my product designer career working at HMDSA agency. We were working with local brands on their digital transformation journey.


Atolye15, 2016 — I joined to Atolye15 as a product designer. I've had a chance to work with Turkey's leading brands' projects such as Microsoft / Xbox Turkey, Volvo Turkey, Knauf, Fenerbahce SK, Hepsiburada, Peak Games, 24 Saatte Is, Tatildekirala, Voscreen, BookYourData, Dogan Holding, BMC, Ersa, Tusiad, StartupMarket.

In a year, I've been announced as a lead product designer and I've been given responsibilities for the design team's work management, projects that other designers were working on, etc.

Goodsted, 2018 — Since I've been looking to explore product-based experiences, I left Atolye15 and joined Goodsted as their freelance & part-time designer. Goodsted helps you support local charities, non-profits and impact startups. Donate your time and talent, volunteer your skills, and create meaningful social and environmental impact.


It was a great experience to explore startup culture and work with founders to launch products. In the meantime, I've had a chance to work with the engineering team so closely since they're located in Izmir as well.


Webex Events, 2018 — During the year, I joined Socio as a full-time product designer. Socio is a company that allows enterprises to build and manage branded event platforms and applications covering online, offline and hybrid event needs.


In the 2021, Socio acquired by Cisco and now they're part of the Webex Events' solutions which I really proud of by this acquisition since it is happened with the products that I've touched every single part of them.


When I joined them, they were in the early stage of their journey. I was the only designer on the team and we were working with co-founders while outlining the scope of the products, native ios & android and web engineers to build features and products accordingly.


Hipo, 2021 — At beginning of the 2021, I joined to Hipo as a senior product designer. Hipo is a product agency dedicated to fintech and especially Algorand blockchain. On my first year at Hipo, I got learnt lots of things about finance products, cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem regarding the projects I've been involved such as Algorand Wallet and Developer Platform, Clover Finance, Originals Only, Midas.


Paysend, 2022 — Regarding the my interests raising to fintech, payments, cryptocurrency side of things, I've decided to joining to Paysend.


Paysend, started as a team of experts from banking and payments who became frustrated by the time and complexity of traditional bank systems. Paysend was the first Fintech to introduce a global card to card transfers to connect 12 billion cards issued by international payment systems: Mastercard, Visa, China Union Pay and local cards schemes.

My story in Paysend started with consumer crypto investment product. I was initially hired to kick-start consumer-facing crypto products within Paysend. At the end of the 2022, we made successfully launches on couple of countries in EMA.

I have studied computer programming since high school. During my high school years, I had a chance to work as a layout designer at the local newspaper, and with this experience, I've realized that I am interested in the design side of things. According to that, I started my career by dropping out of my bachelor's degree at 19 with grand plans of becoming a software engineer.



I've had the chance to help companies validate, prototype, and design digital products that help improve how we live today. I took part in the entire design process, from the research process to the go-live.


HMDSA, 2014 — I started my product designer career working at HMDSA agency. We were working with local brands on their digital transformation journey.


Atolye15, 2016 — I joined to Atolye15 as a product designer. I've had a chance to work with Turkey's leading brands' projects such as Microsoft / Xbox Turkey, Volvo Turkey, Knauf, Fenerbahce SK, Hepsiburada, Peak Games, 24 Saatte Is, Tatildekirala, Voscreen, BookYourData, Dogan Holding, BMC, Ersa, Tusiad, StartupMarket.

In a year, I've been announced as a lead product designer and I've been given responsibilities for the design team's work management, projects that other designers were working on, etc.

Goodsted, 2018 — Since I've been looking to explore product-based experiences, I left Atolye15 and joined Goodsted as their freelance & part-time designer. Goodsted helps you support local charities, non-profits and impact startups. Donate your time and talent, volunteer your skills, and create meaningful social and environmental impact.


It was a great experience to explore startup culture and work with founders to launch products. In the meantime, I've had a chance to work with the engineering team so closely since they're located in Izmir as well.


Webex Events, 2018 — During the year, I joined Socio as a full-time product designer. Socio is a company that allows enterprises to build and manage branded event platforms and applications covering online, offline and hybrid event needs.


In the 2021, Socio acquired by Cisco and now they're part of the Webex Events' solutions which I really proud of by this acquisition since it is happened with the products that I've touched every single part of them.


When I joined them, they were in the early stage of their journey. I was the only designer on the team and we were working with co-founders while outlining the scope of the products, native ios & android and web engineers to build features and products accordingly.


Hipo, 2021 — At beginning of the 2021, I joined to Hipo as a senior product designer. Hipo is a product agency dedicated to fintech and especially Algorand blockchain. On my first year at Hipo, I got learnt lots of things about finance products, cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem regarding the projects I've been involved such as Algorand Wallet and Developer Platform, Clover Finance, Originals Only, Midas.


Paysend, 2022 — Regarding the my interests raising to fintech, payments, cryptocurrency side of things, I've decided to joining to Paysend.


Paysend, started as a team of experts from banking and payments who became frustrated by the time and complexity of traditional bank systems. Paysend was the first Fintech to introduce a global card to card transfers to connect 12 billion cards issued by international payment systems: Mastercard, Visa, China Union Pay and local cards schemes.

My story in Paysend started with consumer crypto investment product. I was initially hired to kick-start consumer-facing crypto products within Paysend. At the end of the 2022, we made successfully launches on couple of countries in EMA.

I ❤️ being community.

Listening experiences. Sharing know-how.

Hit me up if you're interested in working together

Batuhan Karasakal
Senior Product Designer

Last update at September, 2022

Hit me up if you're interested in

working together

Batuhan Karasakal
Senior Product Designer


Last update at January, 2023

About —

I am Turkish multi-disciplinary designer of useful and beautiful products. I am currently living in Izmir,Turkey.