Hi!
I design to tackle global challenges, with a current focus on health care. The main motivation in my career is to drive positive change in communities and organisations through co-creating solutions that have local ownership.
I am currently working at Laerdal Medical in Norway, where I facilitate the change process towards a more design-driven organization. I took on this role after two projects in our Global Health team, designing products and services to train healthcare workers in assisting birth and caring for mothers and newborns. Prior to this, I managed a multi-disciplinary team for designing an ergonomic low-cost baby carrier in Uganda, which we implemented with local entrepreneurs. I find great joy in engaging myself in different cultural settings and putting human-centered-design into practice.
2014 - TEDx Talk: Design Evolves in the Hands of Users
2014 - ChangemakerXchange by Ashoka Foundation
Selected to join a unique network of changemakers
2012 - OpenIDEO Two Winning Concepts
‘Supporting web entrepreneurs in creating businesses’
‘Creating Accessible Election Experience for Everyone’
2010 - INDEX: Design Challenge Jury special award
‘Designing for Education’ in collaboration with UNICEF
2009 - MOSDER National Furniture Competition
First Place in Sofa Category with Eel project
2009 - International Case Design Competition
Winner for Felissimo 500 Colored Pencils
2009 - International Student Packaging Contest
Honorable Mention Award
2009 - B’iota Laboratories Design Contest
Second Place with Bioxcin Shampoo Bottle
Experiences
2014 - Laerdal Global Health, Industrial Designer
- Planning and conducting exploration of new focus areas for the organisation
- Leading design processes of training and therapy solutions in maternal and newborn health
- Fieldwork in high and low resource clinical settings
- Building new partnerships with organisations
2014 - OpenIDEO, Community Prototyper
- Supporting the online community by storyboarding and experience prototyping a selected idea and sharing the process through blogging
2013 - Happy Baby, Uganda Lead Designer
- Building a team of designer and social scientists
- Leading the design process and allocating tasks
- Hand-on design of a developing world product
- Proposing budget and accounting the resources
2011 - Designit, Copenhagen Strategy Intern
- Preparing co-creation workshops for clients
- Working on ideation and concept development
- Developing and presenting design proposals
2013 - Coursera and UC San Diego Online
Human-Computer Interaction Most Creative Award
2013 - IDEO.org and +ACUMEN Online Class
‘Human-centered Design for Social Innovation’
2011 - Korea Advanced Institute of Sci. & Tech.
One year exchange program in South Korea
2010 - Delft University of Technology
One semester Erasmus program in the Netherlands
2007 - Istanbul Technical University
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design
2002 - American Robert College
High school from 2002 to 2007
Recognitions
Studies
Human-centered Design
User Research Methods:
Groups/individual Interviews, observing and interpreting, focus groups, storyboards, role playing, personas, in-context immersion
Prototyping
3D Prototyping products, experience prototypes, Low/high fidelity sketching
Functional interfaces, User testing and Heuristic evaluation
Toolkit
Strategic Design
Client relations
Co-creation workshops with clients Presenting strategies and proposals Communicating with sponsors and NGOs
Leading Design Processes
Creating multidisciplinary teams
Tailoring, running design processes Budgeting and accounting projects
Languages
English: Excellent
Turkish: Mother tongue
Korean, German and Danish: Beginner
In my free time,
Rock climbing, Skiing, Swimming
Collecting different types of paper and fabric
