I am an award-winning creative -freelance or contract- UX / UI Designer located in London.
What defines me as a product designer is the deep compassion I have for users as well as my ability to work effectively across numerous disciplines. Whether I’m designing, consulting or just sharing, my goal is to create a story and make it aesthetic, easy and most importantly meaningful. When facing design challenges, I don’t just create solutions on my own; I seek an understanding from all relevant users and subject matter experts. Having a broad range of experiences, from well known companies like Nike, Atlassian, Rolls-Royce, Salesforce, O2, Zalando and many more, lets me collaborate well in teams and empathise sincerely with customers.
Since my formal education is in information systems and computer science, I can talk with developers in their language in terms of feasibility and coding. With the aim of simplicity and aesthetics, as an end-to-end designer, I care greatly for users and am forever fuelled by a passion for solving challenging problems through detail-oriented great user experiences including design sprints, user research, interaction design, user interface design, prototyping, and branding.
UX / UI RESEARCH
Doing wide range of user centric and competitive research is the key element of my services. Interviews, surveys, diary studies, personas, card sorting, and usability testing help me to gather innovative information.
UX / UI DESIGN
I value simple and minimal content structure, clean design patterns, thoughtful and artistic interactions. My designs include UX, UI, Web, Mobile, Apps, Logos, Wireframes and Prototyping.
BRANDING & ILLUSTRATION
Creating a story and constancy or finding creative solutions in organizations shape the design experience to an another level. Therefore, I help my clients to find their brand identity while leading design teams with agile design sprints.
I am an award-winning creative -freelance or contract- UX / UI Designer located in London.
What defines me as a product designer is the deep compassion I have for users as well as my ability to work effectively across numerous disciplines. Whether I’m designing, consulting or just sharing, my goal is to create a story and make it aesthetic, easy and most importantly meaningful. When facing design challenges, I don’t just create solutions on my own; I seek an understanding from all relevant users and subject matter experts. Having a broad range of experiences, from well known companies like Nike, Rolls-Royce, Atlassian, Salesforce, O2, Zalando and many more, lets me collaborate well in teams and empathise sincerely with customers.
Since my formal education is in information systems and computer science, I can talk with developers in their language in terms of feasibility and coding. With the aim of simplicity and aesthetics, as an end-to-end designer, I care greatly for users and am forever fuelled by a passion for solving challenging problems through detail-oriented great user experiences including design sprints, user research, interaction design, user interface design, prototyping, and branding.
UX / UI RESEARCH
Doing wide range of user centric and competitive research is the key element of my services. Interviews, surveys, diary studies, personas, card sorting, and usability testing help me to gather innovative information.
UX / UI DESIGN
I value simple and minimal content structure, clean design patterns, thoughtful and artistic interactions. My designs include UX, UI, Web, Mobile, Apps, Logos, Wireframes and Prototyping.
BRANDING & ILLUSTRATION
Creating a story and constancy or finding creative solutions in organizations shape the design experience to an another level. Therefore, I help my clients to find their brand identity while leading design teams with agile design sprints.
Here are a few recent design projects. Want to see more? Email me.
Here are a few recent design projects. Want to see more? Email me.
I'm proud to have collaborated with some awesome companies:
I'm proud to have collaborated with some awesome companies:
Here are a few selected certificates:
Here are a few selected certificates:
Testimonials
People I’ve worked with have said some nice things…
It’s rare to come across someone with an eye for design like Alp. I had the pleasure of working with Alp at Nike, where he lead the user experience design vision across both our web and mobile platforms. He is fun, enthusiastic and incredibly astute. His deep functional knowledge combined with his energy and can do attitude make him a go to person, who people actively seek to work and collaborate with. I was always impressed with the incredible attention to detail in his design work. He always has excellent ideas to improve the product for its users. Especially, his work on NikeWay and NFX is a really game changer in our company. I think he would be a great asset to any team!
Mutluhan Bilgin, Partner Manager at Nike
It’s been a pleasure working with Alp during a significant Digital Transformation project. Alp has been delivering user-centric, quality designs and experiences at pace and on time. Alp is a valuable team-player and one of the first names mentioned when assigning designers against complex interactions and design challenges. Any design team will be lucky to have him, and I hope to work with Alp again.
Stuart Jewell, Senior User Experience Architect at O2 (Telefónica UK)
Alp brings clarity to complex challenges and is able to deliver the goods under significant time pressure. His depth of knowledge helped us to develop the right UX solutions for our product and the end results have been highly lauded. The project represented a significant milestone for the company and it couldn’t have been achieved without Alp.
Damon Hatcher, MIS & ICT Consultancy Services for the Education Sector
I worked closely with Alp for almost 2 years at Nike. Alp is one of the most passionate user experience designers I’ve worked with. He wants nothing but the best, most intuitive solutions for users but at the same time, he’s the first to sit down with a developer and project manager to work out what’s possible given time and budget constraints. Every big decision he makes is backed up by strong and extensive user research and market analysis. He is also not afraid of working closely with developers. Aside from his great knowledge of UX / UI Design, he always has the willingness and drive to help others around him, making him a great team player.
Orkan Kutkan, Team Sports Sales Manager at Nike
Alp re-designed the UX and UI of our leading product, OrgChartPlus. We are incredibly pleased with his work and his project management. His work exceeded expectations and his professional expertise was evident throughout the whole project – I can’t recommend Alp enough.
Elliot Gilder, Director of Business Development at Salesforce / SalesMethods
Alp is an enthusiastic, good humored and highly skilled UX / UI Designer who continues to achieve more and learn. He has versatile talents, is well trained in UX / UI Design, and is motivation to pursue new avenues to improve the design. His contribution on web-based software for university has been substantial and highly appreciated. I strongly recommend him.
Leslie Lander, Assoc. Prof. Dir. Grad. Studies for Comp. Sci. at Binghamton University
Alp is motivated UX Designer and has a creative talent to excel in an environment that requires design and problem solving skills. He has an affable nature and motivation to do very well in a challenging environment. His prototyping and design skills on web-based software for university was stunning. I strongly recommend him.
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Prof. Dir. of Grad. Adm. at Binghamton University
I have had the pleasure to work with Alp at in 2015. His UX research and design skills are extremely high which makes him a valuable asset to any team. As a principal software engineer, I felt very comfortable talking to Alp about frameworks and application architecture. He takes all technical details into consideration and makes several iterations of the design to make sure the new feature is not only clean and user-friendly, but also achievable from the developer standpoint. He is also extremely creative and organised, open to feedback and easy to communicate with. I would highly recommend him.
Sezin Karlı, Senior Software Engineer at Miro
Alp has been working with us on our new UX design and has been fantastic all along. He has a very engaging personality and works creatively and methodically whilst keeping to the brief. I would not hesitate to recommend his work.
Richard Gilder, Chief Revenue & Relationship Officer (CRRO) at SalesMethods Ltd
Alp was a pleasure to work with. He slotted into the team perfectly and has made a big impact. It’s rare to find a UX designer that combined a logical approach to UI with a strong visual design ability. He worked as the lead UX designer on the development of the first version of our new app and we are very happy with the results.
Tom Hares, CEO & Co-Founder at Buzzbike
Testimonials
People I’ve worked with have said some nice things…
It’s rare to come across someone with an eye for design like Alp. I had the pleasure of working with Alp at Nike, where he lead the user experience design vision across both our web and mobile platforms. He is fun, enthusiastic and incredibly astute. His deep functional knowledge combined with his energy and can do attitude make him a go to person, who people actively seek to work and collaborate with. I was always impressed with the incredible attention to detail in his design work. He always has excellent ideas to improve the product for its users. Especially, his work on NikeWay and NFX is a really game changer in our company. I think he would be a great asset to any team!
Mutluhan Bilgin, Partner Manager at Nike
It’s been a pleasure working with Alp during a significant Digital Transformation project. Alp has been delivering user-centric, quality designs and experiences at pace and on time. Alp is a valuable team-player and one of the first names mentioned when assigning designers against complex interactions and design challenges. Any design team will be lucky to have him, and I hope to work with Alp again.
Stuart Jewell, Senior User Experience Architect at O2 (Telefónica UK)
Alp has been working with us on our new UX design and has been fantastic all along. He has a very engaging personality and works creatively and methodically whilst keeping to the brief. I would not hesitate to recommend his work.
Richard Gilder, Chief Revenue & Relationship Officer (CRRO) at SalesMethods Ltd
I have had the pleasure to work with Alp in 2015. His UX research and design skills are extremely high which makes him a valuable asset to any team. As a principal software engineer, I felt very comfortable talking to Alp about frameworks and application architecture. He takes all technical details into consideration and makes several iterations of the design to make sure the new feature is not only clean and user-friendly, but also achievable from the developer standpoint. He is also extremely creative and organised, open to feedback and easy to communicate with. I would highly recommend him.
Sezin Karlı, Senior Software Engineer at Miro
Alp brings clarity to complex challenges and is able to deliver the goods under significant time pressure. His depth of knowledge helped us to develop the right UX solutions for our product and the end results have been highly lauded. The project represented a significant milestone for the company and it couldn’t have been achieved without Alp.
Damon Hatcher, MIS & ICT Consultancy Services for the Education Sector
I worked closely with Alp for almost 2 years at Nike. Alp is one of the most passionate user experience designers I’ve worked with. He wants nothing but the best, most intuitive solutions for users but at the same time, he’s the first to sit down with a developer and project manager to work out what’s possible given time and budget constraints. Every big decision he makes is backed up by strong and extensive user research and market analysis. He is also not afraid of working closely with developers. Aside from his great knowledge of UX / UI Design, he always has the willingness and drive to help others around him, making him a great team player.
Orkan Kutkan, Team Sports Sales Manager at Nike
Alp re-designed the UX and UI of our leading product, OrgChartPlus. We are incredibly pleased with his work and his project management. His work exceeded expectations and his professional expertise was evident throughout the whole project – I can’t recommend Alp enough.
Elliot Gilder, Director of Business Development at Salesforce / SalesMethods
Alp is an enthusiastic, good humored and highly skilled UX / UI Designer who continues to achieve more and learn. He has versatile talents, is well trained in UX / UI Design, and is motivation to pursue new avenues to improve the design. His contribution on web-based software for university has been substantial and highly appreciated. I strongly recommend him.
Leslie Lander, Assoc. Prof. Dir. Grad. Studies for Comp. Sci. at Binghamton University
Alp is motivated UX Designer and has a creative talent to excel in an environment that requires design and problem solving skills. He has an affable nature and motivation to do very well in a challenging environment. His prototyping and design skills on web-based software for university was stunning. I strongly recommend him.
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Prof. Dir. of Grad. Adm. at Binghamton University
Alp was a pleasure to work with. He slotted into the team perfectly and has made a big impact. It’s rare to find a UX designer that combined a logical approach to UI with a strong visual design ability. He worked as the lead UX designer on the development of the first version of our new app and we are very happy with the results.