About Me.
Welcome to my UX design portfolio! I'm Merve, an enthusiastic and fast learner with a background in urban planning. I'm transitioning my career to UX design, bringing my skills in software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects to create intuitive user experiences. My background in conducting surveys and analyzing data from a target audience, as well as understanding demographic structure, gives me a unique perspective in UX design.I believe that design should be user-centered and aim to create solutions that make people's lives easier and more enjoyable .
Experiences
2023-Ongoing
UX/UI Designer
Climateware
Carbondeck Application
Carbondeck is a carbon calculation SaaS product that helps organizations track, analyze, and reduce their carbon emissions.
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Developed a cohesive design system for app, ensuring consistency and usability across complex interfaces.
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Conducted persona research and led moderated user research sessions, analyzing data to identify key usability improvements.
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Created and iterated on prototypes to validate design decisions and optimize user flows.
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Collaborated with product managers and business analysts in ideation and wireframing processes, aligning design strategies with business objectives.
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Utilized Figma for design creation and FigJam for ideation and collaboration, ensuring high-quality user interfaces.
Climacarta Application
Climacarta is aweb application designed to facilitate funding applications for projects aimed at adapting to climate change.
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Led comprehensive user research initiatives such as surveys and competitor audits to drive informed UX/UI design strategies for Climacarta, a project funding application focused on climate change adaptation.
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Developed detailed personas to drive user-centered design decisions, ensuring alignment with user needs and goals.
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Crafted intuitive sitemaps, user flows, and wireframes to streamline the user experience and enhance usability.
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Designed in Figma, utilizing advanced features such as variables, to establish a versatile design system tailored to two distinct modes, optimizing design consistency and efficiency.
TKYB Sustainability Report Website
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Developed UX design for Türkiye Yatırım ve Kalkınma Bankası (TKYB) sustainability report website ensuring digital compatibility, easy readability, and page/content tracking.
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Designed an optimal web page for the Nextep application which is a step counter app to support verified borehole projects in Africa.
Developed wireframes, prototypes and design systems for the website.
2022-2023
UX/UI Designer
Klinikya
o Designing the interfaces and user experiences for both web and mobile applications in healthcare field.
o Creating wireframes and prototypes on Figma.
o Conducting user research, and working closely with software developers to implement and iterate on designs.
o Creating social media campaigns that effectively promote the brand and its products/services..
2021-2022
Researher
Istanbul Technical University
TUBITAK Project: The Relationship of Living Environments with Health Indicators and Quality of Life: A Community Participation Model for Healthy Cities
o Database design covering NUTS-12, NUTS-26 and provincial health (population and infrastructure) indicators throughout Turkey.
o Creation of base maps with GIS of all data obtained throughout Turkey, visualization of data.
o Performing spatial statistical (clustering, stratification and reciprocity) analysis of all data obtained throughout Turkey.
Education
2020-2023
Master's
Istanbul Technical University
Faculty of Architecture, City Planning
GPA: 3.88/4.00
2015-2020
Bachelor's
Yıldız Technical University
Faculty of Arcbitecture, City Planning
GPA: 3.20/4.00