Hello! I’m Kaan.
I’m a Product & Experience Design Lead who thrives on collaboration. I currently work at Zalando Lounge as a Principal Product Designer.
I’m a business-minded and user-focused designer with 8+ years of experience designing & shipping digital products. I’ve recruited and lead teams across 4 continents building web & mobile applications, delivering exceptional results, providing organizations with validated features & services meeting product KPIs. My experience as a designer combined with previous experience as a product owner and good knowledge of code allow me to deliver value across the entire product life cycle.
Below, you can view some examples of my work.
heycar Deutschland
heycar Mobile Application
Role: Research & Design Lead, Design Sprint Facilitator
Tourlane GmbH
Improving the design process to make sure we’re building more user-centric products and features
Role: Lead Designer for The Trips Area
IDEO meets BVG
Distilling insights collected via design thinking research to create statements towards innovation
Role: Design Thinking Researcher & Experience Designer
heyLabs
Human-Centered Idea Validation via Rapid-Prototyping — Case Study: heyChauffeur
Role: Project Lead & Experiment Design Lead
Bite IOS Application
A food delivery platform for small to midsize restaurants.
Role: UX Researcher, UX/UI Designer
Atdaa IOS Application
Foursquare/Google Maps with Noise Reduction.
Role: Head of Product & UX
Wellbin.co
An Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform enabling clinics and patients access lab tests & imaging studies on demand.
Role: Product & UX Designer
Health App
A conceptual exploration for Siri and IOS Health App combination providing healthy lifestyle habits.
Role: Market Research, Product Designer, UX/UI Designer
Kaiser Permanente
Redesigning the user experience and interactions on Kaiser Permanente Hospital group’s website with ~1M visitors per month.
Role: Senior UX Producer
UX Design & Visual Design Instructor
An 8-week UX & Visual Design Fundamentals Course on How to Build a Digital Product
Role: Instructor & Course Producer
Now let’s talk about some other things..
I’ve been DJing since 2017 and find it very inspiring to play music for people because music has the ability to evoke powerful emotions.
