Kare Knowledgeware

London

September 2018 - November 2019

Product Designer (Contract)

As a UI/UX focused designer at kare, I established the first Design System for the company. Moving forward I led the design vision and helped keep the product on track with customer's needs and company roadmap. I designed new features and overhauled the look and feel of the product by working both on the UX and UI sides of the product. I also designed the corporate website and the onboarding process of new customers.

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Sound Ports 2019

Istanbul

April 2019 - November 2019

Creative Director (Contract)

I worked on a contract project with Gulbaba Music for the creative and art direction of the urban music festival Sound Ports 2019. I worked with an illustrator colleague to build a design approach for the theme "Cosmic Unity" and moved on to design posters, flyers, maps, videos, social media content and a logo for the creative gathering section of the festival.

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Havas Istanbul

Istanbul

January 2018 - May 2018

VR Designer & Developer (Contract)

I was commissioned by Havas Istanbul to create the first-ever VR project of the globally linked agency. I provided product design, interaction design and VR app development services to create a room-scale VR project which was aimed to be viewed by the visitors of Solarex Istanbul 2018, the solar energy expo. The project was highly appreciated by the visitors, and a mobile VR version of the project is still being used by ABB's salespeople.

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Kong Istanbul

Istanbul

August 2012 - September 2018

Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Lead Designer

In 2012 I co-founded KONG with my partners as a boutique startup digital agency in Istanbul focused on UX and UI design. Our vision was to help client build strong, emotional and interactive communication solutions by using tools and technologies with user experience focus and design perspective. Besides designing and developing websites, mobile and Facebook apps, we also developed creative concepts and campaigns, produced various video content, designed brand

identity and print materials for a variety of clients ranging from global to local.

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Frumatic

Istanbul

April 2011 - June 2012

Designer

Started as a generalist designer position at Frumatic working on both UI design and social media content. During my time at Frumatic, I focused on creating innovative and slick design solutions both for clients and the agency. I designed the agency's websites and afterward, I have been appointed as the designer of the company's WordPress theme startup called Theme.fm. Theme.fm was one of the biggest challenges I faced at that period since I needed to design the brand identity and continued working on the e-commerce interface. For the launch of Theme.fm we worked hard as a team of 4 designers and built up 10 fully functional responsive themes ready for sale.

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DraftfFCB

Istanbul

February 2011 - June 2011

Junior Art Director

I worked on the digital and printed materials for local and global clients such as Burn, Nivea and Johnson & Johnson. Besides doing design work, I participated in the creative concept creation processes for clients.