Onur Oztaskiran, Designer in Thessaloniki, Greece
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Onur Oztaskiran

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Bio

Onur is a multidisciplinary senior designer with substantial UI/UX and product design experience. His designs have helped startups and businesses in various industries—automotive, crypto, eCommerce, online learning, CMS, music, AI-driven apps, and SaaS platforms—become success stories. One quantifiable impact his design has made was the 7% reduction in cart abandonment and a 5% increase in conversion rates for a large-scale online retail marketplace platform with 30 million customers a month.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer

2021 - PRESENT
Airbit companies
  • Defined a design language for the design team to use across the Airbit marketplace.
  • Designed a component-based structure for the platform's features.
  • Worked closely with the product managers to build a robust and easily maintained design system.
Technologies: User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Product Design, UX Prototyping

Senior Visual Designer

2019 - 2021
Postlight
  • Took responsibility for completely redesigning the digital branding, and a fresh new website design was one of the phases. The final outcome was welcomed by Postlight and its respective clients—among them were Mailchimp, Bloomberg, and Vice.
  • Built a design language for the full digital rebranding project's marketing materials, including white papers, pitch decks, and presentations designed in parallel with the new branding.
  • Designed pitch decks for some of the agency's clients to obtain a final agreement.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Photoshop

Design Lead

2016 - 2019
Noon
  • Oversaw the design as a design lead—defining and maintaining a design system that was present on the large-scale online retail marketplace platform with over 20 million customers per month.
  • Prepared a report concerning the platform’s UX and performance analysis and based on the findings updated the design system to solve the issues. The outcome was a 7% decrease in cart abandonment and a 5% increase in conversion rates.
  • Maintained a global design language that needed to work fro all of Wadi’s platforms, including mobile apps, desktop, and mobile web.
Technologies: Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Optimizely, Sketch, Figma

Lead Designer

2014 - 2016
Writer
  • Designed the platform for Writer, an enterprise translation management system with some serious AI backing; now, it has passed its second series of funding of $60 million and has grown to be one of the biggest enterprise-level platforms in its industry.
  • Implemented a clever design approach to display huge amounts of data and suggestions on the platform.
  • Oversaw the build of the platform's design system as one of the founding members and collaborated with other designers to maintain design quality and ensure that they aligned with the guidelines.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Design Lead

2011 - 2014
Udemy
  • Worked as one of the founding members of Udemy which is a major player in the online education marketplace.
  • Oversaw and was in charge of managing all the steps of the design process, including maintaining a robust design base for multiple platform products (desktop, mobile apps, and business end).
  • Established from the get-go the design guidelines for the platform and to this day are still in play.
  • Contributed to many of the design decisions that led to the success stories (and a few of the big fails as well) concerning the platform. I've always been proud of my time and experience at Udemy.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator

Lead Designer

2010 - 2012
ReadyCloud
  • Designed user interfaces for the shipping platforms.
  • Built prototypes for system-wide user interactions.
  • Designed desktop and web applications with a unified design language.
Technologies: Art Direction, UI Design, UX Design

Freelance Designer

2007 - 2010
Monofactor
  • Designed websites and applications for select clients.
  • Helped companies and businesses with their visual design needs.
  • Created visual design materials such as marketing elements, newsletters, websites, and mobile application interfaces.
Technologies: UI Design, User Experience (UX), Product Design

Graphic and Interaction Design Instructor

2003 - 2008
Bilge Adam
  • Taught over 700 students and wrote two interaction design and web development books.
  • Created training and design course materials for the students.
  • Helped students to absorb high-level design training and mentored them to achieve their career goals.
Technologies: Education, Web Design, Product Design, Instructional Design

Education

1997 - 2000

Bachelor's Degree in New Media Design (Fine Arts)

University of California San Diego - San Diego, CA, United States

Certifications

MAY 2009 - PRESENT

Adobe Certified Instructor

Adobe

Skills

Tools

Sketch, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Optimizely

Platforms

Figma, WordPress

Industry Expertise

Education

Other

UI Design, Product Design, Web Design, Mobile UI Design, Enterprise Application Design, User Flows, Visual Design, Interaction Design (IxD), Theory Design, UX Design, Mobile UX Design, Holistic UX Design, Heuristic Evaluation, UX Research, User Testing, Responsive Design, User Interface (UI), Art Direction, User Experience (UX), Wireframing, Mobile Web Design, Mobile First, UX Prototyping, Instructional Design

Experience

  • UI Design - 17 years
  • Web Design - 16 years
  • Theory Design - 10 years
  • UX Design - 10 years
  • Product Design - 10 years
  • Interaction Design (IxD) - 9 years
  • Enterprise Application Design - 6 years
  • Holistic UX Design - 5 years
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