Resume

Freelance Projects

2024 - Present
NOVE GROUP

Product Designer

Responsive Web Design
  • Executed design processes for estenove.com & novemedical.com, the company's main webpage, and all other digital products.
  • Redesigned assets and components in the design system in alignment with the company brand requirements.
Project Scope & Impact
  • Developed UX/UI solutions aligned with the company’s brand identity, ensuring seamless user interactions.
  • Created responsive web designs optimized for future scalability and development implementation.

2022
JUSTPARK

Product Designer

Responsive Web Design
  • Led the responsive web design for onboarding screens for the space owners: electric vehicle (EV) listing, availability, alert & error, dates, and space management.
  • Revamped the booking details screen: pre-book (in progress & upcoming), pin access, payment method, EV banners, and QR code and account management screens: create the listing, profile, payment preferences, and check-out.
  • Revised assets and components in the design system.
Key Achievements of EV Listing
  • Delivered a user-centred EV charger booking design with a 15% increase in bookings.
  • Reduced call centre complaints by 6% through UX-focused improvements.
  • Enhanced booking workflows for EV chargers with impactful redesigns.
Review the project titled "Space Owner Onboarding/EV Listing"

2021
SH:24

Product Designer

Responsive Web Design
  • Initiated responsive web design for design modules of the homepage: product showcase, how Fettle works, and customer comments screens and simplified Fettle designs for product screens, category, sub-category, clinical support & advice, clinical team, privacy & cookies, about, terms, press, contact, and error 404.
  • Redesigned assets and components in the design system in alignment with the company brand requirements.
Key Achievements of Fettle
  • Increased user engagement by 15% through redesigning Fettle’s product pages.
  • Delivered brand-aligned design solutions, accepted by the CEO and CTO without revisions.
  • Enhanced visual consistency and usability across Fettle’s website.
Review the project titled "Product/Category/Our Team/Error"

Permanent Roles

Jun 2017 - Sep 2020
DIGITURK - BEIN MEDIA GROUP

Senior Product Designer

Responsive Web Design | IOS/Android App Design | OTT/STB Design
  • Launched the beIN Connect application for Smart, Android, and Apple TVs (Digiturk’s OTT Platform).
  • Led the Easy Bill project, a mobile web page for Digiturk STB (satellite receiver set-top boxes) users to track and pay monthly bills seamlessly. Managed the end-to-end design process from UX to UI, including system workflows, data collection, mock-ups, prototyping, user testing with focus groups, and final UI implementation.
  • Streamlined beIN Group Asia Pacific area UI design needs and coordinated overseas design teams.
  • Led design processes for the company's key products: digiturk.com.tr, beinsports.com, and digiturkplay.com/en.
Key Achievements of beIN Connect
  • Improved user satisfaction by optimizing beIN Connect’s navigation, increasing satisfaction by 60%.
  • Designed a user-friendly navigation system based on actionable insights from user testing with 20+ users.
  • Reduced user confusion with a simplified navigation structure.
Key Achievements of Easy Bill
  • Designed a user-friendly billing interface, increasing engagement by 50%.
  • Led a UX-focused redesign, reducing user complaints by 25%.
  • Delivered a seamless mobile billing experience through actionable user research.
Key Achievements for Team
  • Introduced Sketch and Zeplin, improving collaboration and cutting delivery times by 50%.
  • Transitioned design workflows to Kanban, boosting team efficiency by 70%.
  • Optimised agile processes, reducing bottlenecks in design handovers.
Review the project titled "Smart TV App"
Review the project titled "Redesigning The Mobile App"
Review the project titled "Easy Bill"

Nov 2015 - Jun 2017
MARKAFONI

Senior UX/UI Designer

Responsive Web Design | IOS/Android App Design
  • Innovated the shopping cart & checkout steps. Developed end-to-end UX and UI, including findings, wireframes, heuristic evaluation, flow charts, prototypes, and user tests with +15 real users in a Markafoni’s retail store.
  • Recreated the filter function design. Defined the most accurate filtering solutions through competitor analysis.
  • Created the category tree from scratch for the whole site whilst the product registration system on the server was in the rebuilding process.
  • Simplified the delivery screens, and orders section. Optimised the delivery date allocation problem with improved new designs, as the needed data was available in the back-end system but not properly reflected in the UI.
Key Achievements of Cart/Checkout
  • Conducted 15+ user tests to optimize the shopping cart experience.
  • Improved the checkout process, reducing user complaints by 25%.
  • Delivered a streamlined shopping journey for Markafoni’s customers, improving checkout speed by 50%.
Key Achievements of Filter
  • Redesigned Markafoni’s filtering system, increasing user satisfaction by 50% and reducing frustrations.
  • Enhanced filtering functionality based on competitive analysis and user feedback, reducing complaints by 35%.
  • Delivered a streamlined filtering solution, improving browsing efficiency, tested with 15+ users.
Key Achievements of Orders
  • Launched new delivery screens under orders, reducing call centre complaints by 48%.
Review the project titled "Shopping Cart & CheckOut Steps"

Dec 2010 - Nov 2015
HURRIYET NEWSPAPER

Senior UX/UI Designer

Responsive Web Design | IOS/Android App Design
  • Executed design processes for hurriyet.com.tr, the main webpage of the company, and all other digital products.
  • Designed the website of bumerang.hurriyet.com.tr, Bumerang's weekly newsletters, and banners.
Key Achievements
  • Coached the design team on utilising the Agile Kanban system after completing the Kanban and Scrum training provided by the company. Led all Kanban processes for the team and collaborated with key stakeholders. In addition, guided project prioritisation and other related topics.
  • Led the intern recruiting process, delegated design projects, and coached and supervised during the internship period.

Education

Sep 2002 - Nov 2006
YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor's degree, Visual Communication Design

Key Areas of Expertise

  • User Interface Design
  • User Experience Design
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Product Design
  • Motion Design
  • Animation
  • User-centred Design
  • Sketching
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Mock-ups
  • Storyboarding
  • Flow-charts
  • Usability
  • UX Research
  • A/B Testing
  • Market Research
  • Finding Analyses
  • Focus Groups
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • JIRA
  • Sketch
  • Zeplin
  • InVision
  • Balsamiq
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe XD
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • WCAG

Certifications & Professional Development

Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator by IBM

March 2021

Enterprise Design Thinking - Team Essentials for AI by IBM

March 2021

Gamification by University of Pennsylvania

ID: QN2F7J75XU2B
August 2021

Agile Kanban by Acm Software - Agile Training and Consultancy

February 2015

Agile Scrum by Acm Software - Agile Training and Consultancy

March 2015

Introduction to After Effects (After Effects Kickstart)

March 2023