About

A designer who came up through code.

I'm Tamás Király, a senior product designer with 10+ years in B2B SaaS and AdTech. I spent most of that decade growing with one product as it became an AI-native creative platform, and these days I design agentic AI workflows and build them myself.

How I got here

I started where design meets code, and I never fully left. The hybrid view, what's possible, what's buildable, what it costs, has shaped how I work ever since. Over the last decade I grew alongside a single product as it evolved from a simple banner tool into a full creative platform, and my scope grew with it at every step.

2015 – 2016 · Paymo

Hybrid UI designer and front-end developer

Where design met code. I designed interfaces and built them, and learned to weigh an idea against what it would actually take to ship.

2017 – 2021 · Bannersnack

Marketing Designer, then UI/UX, then leading design

I joined a banner-making tool and grew with it, moving from hands-on design into leading a small design team as the product matured.

Creatopy

The same product, scaling into a platform

As Bannersnack became Creatopy, the work shifted from single features to systems thinking: a design language and components that could hold a growing platform together.

to 2026 · The Brief AI

Senior Product Designer

I owned design for agentic creative workflows end to end, inside a Product Pod with PM, engineering and QA. The product, and the design system underneath it, both became AI-native.

One continuous arc. Bannersnack, Creatopy and The Brief AI are the same company as it grew and rebranded. I stayed through the whole journey, which is rare, and it taught me how products and the systems behind them really evolve over time.

How I work

Systems over screens

I look for the structure underneath: the tokens, the patterns, the logic that lets a product scale without turning into a mess.

Ownership, not handoff

I'd rather take a fuzzy problem and own it all the way to shipped than be handed a finished spec to decorate.

I build to think

A working prototype tells the truth a static mockup can't. Building things myself is how I pressure-test an idea before engineering commits to it.

Better with a team

The work I'm proudest of came out of a tight Product Pod, designer, PM and engineers solving it together rather than in isolation.

Beyond the work

When I'm not designing, I'm usually still building something: a Figma plugin, a small web app, whatever itch needs scratching. It's how I keep my hands in the craft and stay close to how things are actually made.

I'm based in Romania and work comfortably in both Hungarian and English. Outside of that, I have a soft spot for good tools, well-made things, and figuring out how they tick.

Looking for what's next.

I'm open to senior and lead product design roles where I can own ambiguous problems and raise the bar between design and engineering. If that sounds like your team, let's talk.

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