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		<title>CreditVisionX</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 20:39:41 +0000</pubDate>

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	CVX

	
	

	
	A SaaS Technology Platform for credit analysts and portfolio managers for portfolio monitoring.
	


	Overview:
CreditVisionX is a credit analysis and portfolio monitoring tool within the Alter Domus ecosystem, helping users monitor their portfolios and make decisions.
	

	Client:
AlterDomusMy Role: Lead Product Designer
Time:Feb 2023- Current 
	

	

	Link to full case study︎︎︎
	
	
	
	

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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:22:58 +0000</pubDate>

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	Incentive


	


	An award-winning app that benefits advisors, employers, and employees.
	

	OVERVIEW:Incentive︎︎︎ is an award-winning financial wellness app for advisors, employers, and employees within the eMoney ecosystem, helping people plan for today and the future.
	

	Client:
eMoneyMy Role: Lead Product DesignerTime:April 2022 - Nov 2022

	

	

	Responsive Web App Redesign Case Study︎︎︎
	
	FTUE &#38;amp; Goals for Growth - Mobile App Case Study︎︎︎
	
	
	
	

	












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		<title>CMP</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:03:56 +0000</pubDate>

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CMP

	a content marketing platform that helps creators and editors with content personalization




	


	
	Overview:The two-week-long sprint focused on exploring how our client can evolve the content template system to support content personalization. That is a growing need from brands as they want to target their audiences and customer experiences more specifically. In addition, the client wanted to improve the UX of the existing platform to support multiple content variants, as well as the potential integration of NLP (Natural Language Processors) and Machine Learning AI to support the creation of atomized content.
Link to full case study︎︎︎
	
	


	

	Project type: Conceptual ProjectMy Role: Lead Product Designer
Time:2 weeks- March 2022Method:
Google Ventures Sprinting













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		<title>C-THRU</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 03:07:07 +0000</pubDate>

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	C-THRU

	
	Based upon decades of operational field experience and scientific research, C-THRU delivers the most relevant information for truly intuitive navigation and communication when it matters most.
	


	

	Overview:

iPad app aims to help develop a better communication, navigation and coordination tool for firefighters with the help of 5G technology.&#38;nbsp;
	

	Role: UX/UI Designer
Team: In collaboration with Qwake Technologies︎︎︎
Year:2020
Practices:&#38;nbsp;
Visual Design, User Research, Wireframing, User Flow
	


See the website ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;


Designing for highly risky situations


C-THRU has been developed by Qwake Technologies. The project consists of 3 main products: 
1- Navigator ( Helmet Mounted Connected AR Vision)
2- Visual Command ( iPad App Coordination Tool for Incidents)
3- Incident Insight ( Cloud Based Analytics Operation &#38;amp; Training Insight)
Engineering, Product and Design team has been working on the first two products for almost five years with a tons of field research, trials, iterations and improvements.&#38;nbsp;

The dev and design team which I am a part of have been working on the iPad app to resolve the usability issues, implement design principles, UI consistency.&#38;nbsp;
Re-designing and developing the new feautures to help the firefighters communicate, organize and have insights during the incident is also a very big part of my daily responsibilities.For more information, please reach me at karakoseelif@gmail.com.


	
	
	

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		<title>Wing it </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:42:31 +0000</pubDate>

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Wing it
a city guide and social platform for solo travelers - iOS

	

	Overview:The app aims to encourage more women to travel alone by creating a community between locals and other travelers, letting travelers have a more spontaneous and flexible itinerary and introducing local spots in different neighborhoods. I conducted the research and design process on this mobile app.
	

	Project type: Conceptual ProjectMy Role: Product Designer
Time:Feb- May 2020Scope of Work:&#38;nbsp;
Ideation, User Research, Information Architecture, Prototyping, Usability Testing, Visual Design &#38;amp; Brand Identity


Figma Prototype Link ✌️️&#38;nbsp;


	
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	So What’s the Problem?




	
	











As a traveling enthusiast who lived in more than 3 cities I believe discovering new cities on my own helped me to shape my personality. But of course it wasn’t always easy for me. I always had to be a lot more careful about who to talk, where to go and so on. When I talked to my close circle I realized it was the same for other women as well.
What if there was a way to make women feel more comfortable while traveling alone?



















	



	
	What’s out there?&#38;nbsp;
First things first. I scoured the internet and checked existing apps to find out the common problems:










︎︎︎ Flexible itineraries and serendipity Existing apps which are focused on local experiences are not allowing users to have flexible itineraries. 











︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;Finding local experiences &#38;amp; spots
Finding local experiences from reliable sources is either too expensive or can’t be done alone.











︎︎︎  Creating trustful communities for women
There is still a lack of creating trustful communities for women.︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;City guide that would help users show the city in locals’ eyes



Mostly used city guides and maps either can’t provide a general idea of the neighborhoods characteristics or they include only touristic information.&#38;nbsp;




	

	


How can we help more women to travel solo with less concerns and more spontaneous itinerary?

	




	Sneak Peak

	Wing it provides itineraries and recommendations by locals, solo travellers can create their own route either using locals’ lists or their own spots. They can also reach out to the trustworthy community when they don’t want to be alone.
	



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Taking the Dive

	

	To solve these problems, I started with understanding the main problems of discovering a new city by desk research. I was a member of a Facebook group called Women Who Travel by Condé Nast and I was always a good follower of New York Times travel articles. They helped me to understand the main and common problems for travelers as well as existing apps and websites. I needed to dig deeper so I continued my research with user interviews.


	





	
	Qualitative Interviews
Interviewees were aged between 24 to 40 years old with a wide range of backgrounds. After having some keywords I continued to my synthesis to understand the user behaviours.
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	Synthesis
I gathered the data I had from interviews and came up with few repetitive user patterns
	&#38;amp; digitized the data.
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	More info about the process ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;

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	Insights &#38;amp;&#38;nbsp;Opportunities
After having the data from synthesis I realized that all my opportunity areas were deeply related to solo traveling because solo travelers are experienced, they want to dig deep to discover a new city. I decided to focus on solo traveling for women while keeping other actionable insights that I have.

	
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	User Journey
I needed to translate all information gathered into actionable insights that could be visualized as features in a product. User journey method helped me to understand the opportunity areas. I ended up with&#38;nbsp; four user journeys.

	
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	The Making of Wing It



	
	Brainstorming
After deciding the actionable insights I gathered with my classmates and we brainstormed for our problem prompts, after analyzing the sketches I started designing my low-fi prototypes.
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	Low-fi Prototypes
I created low-fi prototypes according to my ideal flows and tested them on users to see interviewees’ reactions. This process helped me to figure out which ideas worth to continue working on.After the first round I found out that I should merge the first and the second flows because solo traveler wants to contact with others when there is a need.I kept sketching with the insights of user tests and step up to Mid-fi prototypes.

	More info about the process ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;


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Propositional prototypes for user testing

	
	&#38;nbsp;Mid-fi Prototypes
Mid- fi prototypes helped me showing polarizing ideas for the interface. I used A/B Testing method&#38;nbsp; to get a sense which ideas are working and 
which ones I should kill.
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Sitemap- MSCW

I gathered all the insights from my research and users test results and mapped the product’s information architecture into a sitemap. MSCW technique helped me to understand what features are important when launching the app.
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 Key Features


	1. Reach Out to Locals &#38;amp; Solo Travelers

	
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	Helping people to reach out to others according to the status &#38;amp; situation. That helps people to feel more comfortable to get in touch with others.

	
	


	
	


	2. Create Flexible &#38;amp; Custom Routes

	
	
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adding filter

	

	
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adjusting the walking time
	Custom routes are automatically generated and can be adjusted via settings.











This feature solves the problem of showing local heros’ recommendations between two points so that traveler would have less research and find new spots more randomly on the routes.




3. Explore the city

	
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	Get a better understanding of each district’s vibe. Dive into itineraries picked by local heros, easy and free way to have local advise.


	

	

	Branding
I asked 20 targeted users what cities they think of when they think about traveling. Gathered the keywords from the interviews to come up with Mediterranean concept.&#60;img width="2000" height="1600" width_o="2000" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cabaea9f4c3271b19eee12960e5d1c24841d7a8e82b7a56968e5bd7393e705b/travelbaby2.gif" data-mid="85956045" border="0" data-scale="81" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cabaea9f4c3271b19eee12960e5d1c24841d7a8e82b7a56968e5bd7393e705b/travelbaby2.gif" /&#62;

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	What I've learned?

	Wing it was the first digital product that I had a chance to work from the ideation to the final design product and it was a personal project as a travel enthusiast.Thanks to my super talented tutor I learned the whole design thinking process and applied it to digital product.
	What I’d do differently? 
	I spent a lot of time on different user journeys and tried to design each step of the each user journey and when we got to the last part where we narrowed down the features I thought it would have been better to spend time on the more important user journeys rather than focusing on all because in the end I couldn’t spend as much time as I wanted for designing the key features.



Thank You!
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		<title>CNVS</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 17:30:38 +0000</pubDate>

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	CNVS

	
	A furniture brand designed by interdisciplinary team of designers at ATÖLYE and created in partnership with local fabricators to meet the needs of modern work and education workspaces.
	


	

	Overview:CNVS’s main principle is to design dynamic and multifunctional furnitures to keep up with the changing working habits and to foster interaction.
	

	Role: Project LeadTeam: In collaboration with ATOLYE︎︎︎
Duration:2015-16
Practices:&#38;nbsp;Branding, Art Direction, Digital Content Creation, Furniture Design
	


See the website ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;Featured @ Archello ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;
Featured @ Designboom ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;


The Problem



When designing the space for ATÖLYE, our team needed a modular, robust and affordable furniture set made with natural materials. After doing some market research, it was evident that there was a gap both locally and globally. The existing models either lacked proper detailing, or they were not robust enough to withstand heavy usage by a wide gamut of individuals.
	
	

How might we create furniture that responds to the needs of contemporary work and learning spaces?
More info ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;




	Design Principles

	The idea of “canvas” emerged, emphasizing a background that is open to endless variations along with the minimum infrastructure to hold the space together. Based on this, few design principles were set:
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	Branding





	











	


	









































































“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”






















Henry David Thoreau













Canvas is the background, open to endless variations, the minimum infrastructure to hold the space together.
	&#60;img width="6175" height="4195" width_o="6175" height_o="4195" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81f1c8f9298b0f7f3dc12b3eef8d0dff8e7cbe1ab237d4780304093f4732444c/CNVS_logo.png" data-mid="70316864" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81f1c8f9298b0f7f3dc12b3eef8d0dff8e7cbe1ab237d4780304093f4732444c/CNVS_logo.png" /&#62;
	



&#60;img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/360e4e38a1a885a09180dcc74963e8ff0b49013e2f6fca9cbcb726775fa6c560/cnvsbiscard.png" data-mid="70316867" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/360e4e38a1a885a09180dcc74963e8ff0b49013e2f6fca9cbcb726775fa6c560/cnvsbiscard.png" /&#62;

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Milan Design Week



	
 
	 
	Ventura
The CNVS brand was debuted in Milano Design Week at Ventura Lambrate in April 2016, along with the CNVS website.
 I was managing the digital and printed marketing materials as well as all the logistics and communications.
 
The feedback to date has been very positive at a global scale, where the brand has garnered attention from Designboom, Dezeen, Design Milk and other sites. 
	&#60;img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81c24b318ea8b0ac595a2652b540219baace60f997f8951f6fa00199ab5a791b/cnvs_angledtable_diptych1.jpg" data-mid="73542929" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81c24b318ea8b0ac595a2652b540219baace60f997f8951f6fa00199ab5a791b/cnvs_angledtable_diptych1.jpg" /&#62;
	


&#60;img width="2984" height="1946" width_o="2984" height_o="1946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/829ddc03dcf85095d0a90f8286760ac207e3c9fdf1ad053db612eeaca94733b6/lapto2.png" data-mid="73483294" border="0" data-scale="83" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/829ddc03dcf85095d0a90f8286760ac207e3c9fdf1ad053db612eeaca94733b6/lapto2.png" /&#62;Website was launched before the start date of Design Week. We collaborated with Dara Kilicoglu for the website development.


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Photos: Ece Ciftci






Video: Ozgur Onurme,
Editing: Murathan Sirakaya

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		<title>About</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 17:30:42 +0000</pubDate>

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	Hi there!&#38;nbsp;



	

	💼 Hello! I’m Elif, a Product Designer with an Architecture Background
My journey from architecture to product design has been an exciting adventure, blending my love for systematic thinking and creative problem-solving. I transitioned into product design to explore my passions for technology, business, and psychology, bringing a unique perspective to the tech world.🚀 Currently at DEPT®
I’m currently a product designer at DEPT® in New York City, collaborating with a wide range of clients, from innovative startups to established enterprises. I specialize in designing and building tools from concept to MVP for both mobile and desktop platforms, including SaaS and B2B/B2C products. My expertise includes leading design sprints, developing design systems, prioritizing and iterating features and many more.


🌍 Design for Impact
Growing up in a city with many design-related problems helped me to be a good observer. Witnessing these problems in everyday life that result in inequality, and waste of resources, I have always prioritized creating user experiences, with special attention to social &#38;amp; environmental impact. 

👥 Team Player
I thrive in fast-paced environments and believe in the power of diverse, collaborative teams. Whether I'm consulting or working directly within a team, I integrate seamlessly and focus on building systems that enhance business efficiency and create delightful user experiences.

I'm always up to chat about life, the Universe and everything else.

	




	

	&#38;nbsp;✉️&#38;nbsp; Say hi!&#38;nbsp;
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Hello! 👋️

	I am Elif, a senior product designer weaving my multidisciplinary skills into delightful experiences. I thrive on complex challenges with a strategic mindset. Passionate about impactful projects and collaborating in diverse, laughter-filled teams, currently shaping innovative solutions at DEPT® agency.
	


	



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	Welcome to my side projects 👋
 
	I was once an award-winning architect. It's always good to mix things up a bit. You're welcome to witness my passion projects, where I'll incorporate as many colors as possible because diversity is crucial in both life and design!

	

Trimtab.01Urban Installation


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GreenDomeEnvironmental &#38;amp; Graphic Design

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	NaturaUI Design
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	Container ParkArchitectural Design
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