Onur Oztaskiran

Designer in Istanbul, Turkey

Member since March 16, 2021

Onur is a multidisciplinary senior designer with substantial UI/UX and product design experience. His designs have helped startups and businesses in various industries—including automotive, 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 20+ million customers/month.

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Digital Design

MV Agusta | Turkey
- UI Design
- Web Design
- UX Design
- Responsive Design
- User Interface (UI)
Wadi Grocery Mobile App Design
- Mobile UI Design
- Mobile UX Design
- Product Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Mobile Web Design
Postlight Website Relaunch
TrustMeUp Platform Design
- Product Design
- UX Design
- User Interface (UI)
- UI Design
- User Experience (UX)
- Wireframing
- Holistic UX Design
Kioken Blocks
- Product Design
- WordPress
- UI Design
- Web Design
- UX Design
- Holistic UX Design
Wadi.com
- Product Design
- UX Research
- User Testing
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Holistic UX Design

Employment

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
- Responsible for completely redesigning the digital branding and a fresh new website design was one of the phases. The final outcome was welcomed by both Postlight and their respective clients, among them, were Mailchimp, Bloomberg, and Vice.
- Built a design language for the full digital rebranding project’s marketing materials; this included white papers, pitch decks, and presentations which were 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 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

Bachelor's Degree in New Media Design (Fine Arts)
1997 - 2000
University of California San Diego - San Diego, CA, United States

Certifications

Adobe Certified Instructor
MAY 2009 - PRESENT
Adobe

Experience

UI Design17 years
Web Design16 years
Product Design10 years
Theory Design10 years
UX Design10 years
Interaction Design (IxD)9 years
Enterprise Application Design6 years
Holistic UX Design5 years

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