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Senior Product Designer, PhD.

I turn fragmented tools into products people can actually navigate.
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ABOUT ME

I'm a Senior Product Designer with 10+ years of experience, including 4+ years designing enterprise platforms at Mercedes-Benz scale; systems used by 170,000+ employees across global teams.
I turn fragmented, overly complex tools into products people can actually use; through research, clear systems thinking, and information architecture that still works as things get complicated.

My PhD (Istanbul Technical University, 2025) is where my research habits come from. I use that same evidence-based approach to turn unclear, high-stakes problems into product decisions I can defend to both engineers and executives.

I believe good design doesn't hide complexity, it makes the logic underneath it visible enough to trust.
I'm the designer people bring in when a system's gotten too tangled to explain simply. I think structure is a form of respect and trust comes from visible logic. I'm drawn to messy, high-stakes problems, and I hold my ground when the right answer isn't the popular one.

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Hire me for the systems nobody's mapped yet.

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I work close to engineering and business from day one.

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I like the ugly problems: Five conflicting user types, decade-old legacy systems, the product nobody owns.

TOOLS

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UX DESIGN

Elite Rides

Contracts, inspection and payment: one mobile flow, zero paper

Engineering Targets

Replaced 5+ planning tools with one system that tracks MB.OS releases start to finish

MB Inside

One search-based platform that helps 170,000+ employees find people and teams

myProjects

1,673 projects, one shared source of truth for Mercedes-Benz

Smart UX Research

PhD: why smart products feel smart, and why they don't

PRODUCT DESIGN

YKK Denim Accessories

22 concepts, 80% moved into production, adopted into YKK's global catalogue

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