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Designer
Location
Chamonix, France
Toptal Member Since
October 6, 2015
Burak is a lead product designer with an excellent track record. As a Toptal designer since 2015, he worked on numerous projects and produced outstanding results spanning a wide variety of industries. His work strikes the perfect balance between all aspects of end-to-end product design, bringing usability, functionality, and aesthetics together while not losing sight of the user needs and the business goals.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead Product Designer
2015 - PRESENT
Toptal
- Conducted work for more than 40 clients from all over the world, spanning a wide variety of industries.
- Participated in Toptal Projects, which consisted of teams assembled and managed by Toptal for clients and some minor Toptal internal projects.
- Collaborated with the screening team for two years, interviewing designers who'd like to join Toptal while taking part in the ongoing work on improving the process.
Technologies: Sketch, Principle, Figma, UX Design, Mobile App Design
Lead Product Designer
2021 - 2021
Interos (via Toptal)
- Redesigned Interos' existing platform and created a new design language as an effort to carry their design from Adobe XD to Figma, creating a new workflow along the way.
- Collaborated with another designer with expertise in Design System Management to create the new design system, Atlantis, around the redesign.
- Merged with other designers in the team to get more insight into the previous design decisions to avoid repeating past mistakes.
- Assembled company-wide presentations showcasing the progress of the redesign, the new design system, and its functionality in front of two hundred people every month during the engagement.
Technologies: Figma, Design Systems, Redesign
Lead Product Designer
2019 - 2021
Freedom Robotics (via Toptal)
- Designed the initial look and feel of the product to give it a "Tony Stark" feel as requested by the client. At this time, the platform for robotics monitoring, analysis, and control I was working on was focused on startup-level robotics companies.
- Changed direction and started working with enterprise-level clients, which required a direction change in the design language. Over many iterations, I made sure the interface evolved into a more enterprise-friendly version.
- Assisted in designing the concept of fleets. The client was unsure how to group and present the user's robots. Seeing how every user could be different, I helped them develop the concept of fleets, which was a flexible way of grouping devices.
- Helped implement the zones structure to the existing fleets. Zones were smaller groups nested in each other under fleets.
- Created the pilot experience. The user could either control their robots from a first-person perspective with the help of the cameras on the robot and a joystick interface or a map, and they could give direct commands and designate routes.
- Designed the new dashboard creation flow, where the user can add data topics as they need, resize easily, drag and drop and create their dashboards according to their needs.
Technologies: Robot Operating System (ROS), InVision, Sketch
Product Designer
2018 - 2021
Visuo (via Toptal)
- Designed a fun-but-simple journey for users with no experience in video editing to generate videos that they can use as their marketing material.
- Created the product to look and feel trendy according to the most popular style at the time.
- Conducted work on the interactions to ease the video generation process, without sacrificing the capabilities of the product.
- Maintained the relationship and got to work with the client repeatedly as they needed new iterations on their product over the years.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision
Product Designer
2019 - 2019
Graphaware—Hume (via Toptal)
- Designed an annotation tool to train Hume, a natural language AI.
- Handled different aspects of the annotation, such as defining entities, co-references, and relationships, all of which required a different method to annotate.
- Applied visual cues to keep the annotation process intuitive and leveraged the keyboard to provide the user with shortcuts for repetitive tasks.
Technologies: Sketch
Data Visualization Designer
2018 - 2018
MIT Media Lab (via Toptal)
- Worked on a website for a research paper about the evolution of the constitutions in the world.
- Designed a journey to tell the story with visualizations that make the information easily digestible to the reader.
- Created interactions and animations that kept the experience engaging.
Technologies: InVision, Principle, Sketch
Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Vashi
- Designed a cross-platform, mobile-first experience for users to create their unique diamond rings at a bespoke diamond company from London.
- Created multiple alternatives to approach the problem of ring creation and outlined them with user flows detailing the journeys.
- Collaborated closely with the front-end team to help implement a pixel-perfect experience on mobile and desktop.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, Principle
Data Visualization Designer
2017 - 2017
Pride Surveys
- Designed a presentation in the form of a scrolling web page for showing student survey results.
- Found creative ways to articulate repetitive data in an engaging and easily understandable way.
- Delved deep into different ways of representing data while keeping the repetitive types of data interesting.
Technologies: Sketch
Product Designer
2017 - 2017
Molotov (via Toptal)
- Conducted work for Molotov TV, a streaming service in France, for a short period until they hired an in-house designer in Paris. They've provided me with lots of exciting challenges spanning multiple devices in this short time.
- Worked on desktop, mobile, and tablet versions of the app.
- Solved UX problems and designed interactions to improve the experience of the product across all devices.
Technologies: Sketch, Principle
Product Designer
2017 - 2017
Weframe (via Toptal)
- Experienced a chance to work in a completely different media, as Weframe is a big screen designed to enhance in-person meetings.
- Conducted work on the collaboration tool that enables collaboration in a meeting, both right on the board, using touch interactions, connecting to the board with personal smartphones, and creating and adding to the content on the board.
- Designed intuitive yet powerful interactions that connected the two kinds of media, the board and the phones, and removed the friction between devices while collaborating.
- Handled various user flows, such as connecting to the device and creating and joining a meeting, among others.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, Principle
Designer Screener
2016 - 2017
Toptal Core Team
- Interviewed some of the best designers in the world, allowing me to learn and stay up to date with trends and best practices in the industry.
- Browsed through numerous applicant portfolios, allowing me to develop a keen eye for detail and assess my work, which helped me improve significantly.
- Participated in regular meetings to discuss common problems, find solutions, and improve the screening process.
Technologies: Skype, UI Audits
Product Designer
2015 - 2016
PriceBlink (via Toptal)
- Worked for Priceblink, a Chrome extension that compares prices with other websites with over 100,000 users.
- Handled price comparison and coupon finding experiences.
- Acted as a product designer in a limited space, which was a challenging but refreshing experience.
Technologies: Sketch
Product Designer
2015 - 2016
Proquest Technologies (via Toptal)
- Performed work for Proquest, a CRM platform aimed at real estate agents. This experience allowed me to get a good understanding of CRM products.
- Conducted work on various versions of the product according to the changing requirements.
- Designed a powerful CRM product and came up with clever interactions to enhance usability, which introduced me to the world of interaction design for the first time.
Technologies: Sketch
Art Director
2012 - 2014
Rafineri
- Engaged as an art director in Rafineri, one of Istanbul's most famous advertising agencies.
- Joined as the lead digital art director for Opet, the leading national fuel company in Turkey.
- Linked with many well-known brands, both local and global, including Sony.
- Collaborated with the ATL team on many 360 campaigns.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop
Junior Art Director
2011 - 2012
Alafortanfoni
- Worked on portions of a variety of projects as the junior art director.
Technologies: Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop
Junior Art Director
2008 - 2011
Ogilvy
- Provided services for global brands like Ford, Mentos, Orkid, and more.
- Collaborated with people with extremely high expectations.
- Acted in a global agency, interacting with globally successful professionals.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop
Education
2005 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Advertising
Kadir Has University - Istanbul, Turkey
2007 - 2008
Exchange Program Degree in Communication Design
Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - Wiesbaden, Germany
Experience
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