01About
Designer. Researcher. Crafter.
I've shipped three apps to the iOS App Store, run usability research, and built design systems from scratch. Before all that: A PhD, a master's, years of lecturing. It sounds like a lot of pivots, but the thread was always the same. I've just always been interested in how people move through things; spaces, systems, screens. Figma is newer. The curiosity isn't. See a bit more about me above, and my case studies below.
FigmaFramerAdobe Creative StudioClaudeStitchLovable
02Projects
CASE / 01
PlayMate
A community-driven sports matchmaking app. Pick a sport, find a game, build trust.
CASE / 02
HealthBar
A gamified health & wellness companion that turns Apple Health data into an RPG.
CASE / 03
Crypto Platform
Crypto-trading Platform Authentication and Onboarding Architecture
CASE / 04
Kitbox
An online shopping app for a home-decor brand.
CASE / 05
PagePals
A social, gamified library that turns reading into a shared ritual.
03Experience
Product Designer
Konkret, Self-initiated projects, BerlinFebruary 2023 — Present- ▸Led end-to-end UX/UI for HealthBar, an RPG-style Apple Health companion (iOS, Apple Watch, widgets); usability testing across 9 participants raised dashboard comprehension from 44% to 89% and cut time-to-correct-read from 13s to 4s.
- ▸Designed PlayMate, a community sports-matching app, from user interviews through four rounds of moderated usability testing, translating research findings into a neo-brutalist design system and full information architecture.
- ▸Contributed to the authentication and onboarding redesign for a mobile crypto-trading platform as part of a contracted design team, designing biometric and passkey entry flows to replace PIN-only login; the redesign was validated with 22 active traders, driving login success from 81% to 96% and an 18% increase in daily active sessions.
- ▸Redesigned PagePals, a social reading platform, focusing on peer-driven book discovery; usability testing with 20 participants showed 75% engagement with a single social feed feature and 15% direct book adoption from peer activity.
- ▸Designed Kitbox, a mobile e-commerce app, end-to-end; from a scalable UI system to a 3-step checkout flow, partnering directly with an iOS developer to deliver production-ready Figma specs.
- ▸Shipped 'Bubbles' (Task Manager) and 'iKeep' (Data Storage) to the iOS App Store, applying consistent visual hierarchy and WCAG accessibility standards across both.
University Lecturer
Bahçeşehir University · Beykent University, IstanbulAugust 2021 — August 2025- ▸Instructed advanced design studios centered on Human-Centered Design (HCD), universal design principles, layout hierarchy, and digital visual principles.
- ▸Mentored and guided 100+ design students through iterative product life cycles, spanning exploratory user research to high-fidelity final prototypes.
- ▸Developed scalable visual systems, interactive presentation frameworks, and digital design assets to streamline critiques and complex design breakdowns.
- ▸Curated, managed, and executed an international design workshop on modeling historic façades for 20+ global participants from content generation through studio implementation.
Lead Visual Designer
Beykent University, IstanbulMay 2019 — June 2021- ▸Designed end-to-end visual systems, brand identities, and asset pipelines for international academic symposiums.
- ▸Created high-fidelity interactive prototypes to modernize institutional web applications, improving navigation systems and content comprehension.
- ▸Coordinated design production timelines for major events with 150+ participants under tight deadlines.
Design Researcher
Beykent University, Istanbul · Universitat Politècnica de València, ValenciaApril 2016 — May 2019- ▸Conducted qualitative visual research on architectural facades, translating photographic and archival material into structural pattern analysis.
- ▸Synthesized historical and structural data into an interactive visual catalog covering 30+ architectural sites, using Adobe Creative Suite for graphic production.
- ▸Documented design and material trends to support long-form academic research and thesis work.
- ▸Designed instructional content and learning flows using foundational information architecture principles.
- ▸Facilitated design workshops, supporting students through structured design review cycles.
04Education
UI/UX Design Bootcamp
2026ReDI School, Berlin — GermanyPhD · History and Theory of Architecture (3.86/4)
2019 — 2025Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul — TurkeyMA · Visual Communication Design (3.6/4)
2023 — 2025Anadolu University, Eskişehir — TurkeyMSc · History and Theory of Architecture (3.64/4)
2016 — 2019Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul — Turkey— Erasmus Exchange · Valencia Polytechnic University, Valencia — Spain (2018 — 2019)BSc · Interior Architecture (3.03/4)
2011 — 2016Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul — Turkey— Erasmus Exchange · KU Leuven, Ghent — Belgium (2013 — 2014)
05Languages
- EnglishFULL PROFESSIONAL PROFICIENCY
- GermanLIMITED WORKING PROFICIENCY
- TurkishNATIVE