■ ABOUT
Hi, I’m Elif. I design for people in the middle of complex decisions.
Senior UX Designer in Munich with 8 years in design, first in buildings, now in digital products. I was the first UX designer at Oscar, a car rental marketplace, and built its design system, and founding product designer of ArchiVinci AI.
8+ yrs
shipping and iterating digital products
2
published research papers
280K+
people learning AI tools with me online
Hi, I’m Elif. I design for people in the middle of complex decisions.
■ 01
Story
From buildings to booking flows.
I studied architecture in Eskişehir and Białystok, then planned buildings and managed projects in Istanbul, including a museum we delivered in seven months.
In 2019 I designed the interactive exhibits for Bursa Science Center: 19 installations with touchscreens and kiosks. Designing for people who touch, try and get stuck pulled me into UX, and became the subject of my first research paper.
Since 2021 I’ve worked on digital products: AI tools and websites as a freelancer, then Oscar, where I joined as the first UX designer and built the design system behind five product surfaces, and ArchiVinci AI, which I joined as its first designer.
Architecture still shapes how I work. I start from the constraints, think in systems, and pay attention to how people actually move through a space, physical or digital.
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Experience
2024-now
Founding product designer
ArchiVinci AI · remote
Product strategy, UX and the design system for an AI rendering tool used by 800K+ people in 165+ countries.
2022-now
Senior UX Designer
Oscar Mobility, Munich
First UX designer. Built the design system from scratch; designs booking web, customer app, partner back office, internal tools and fleet management.
2021-2022
Freelance product designer
AI and web products · remote
DropYourAI, an AI tool directory that grew to 2,000+ tools in two months, and websites for web3 projects.
2021
UX Researcher
ZN, Brussels · Positive Fibers, Netherlands
Research internship and freelance research projects.
2019–2020
UX Designer
Bursa Science Center
Touchscreen and kiosk UX for 19 interactive exhibits.
2018–2021
Architect and Project Manager
Istanbul
Five projects in three years, including a museum delivered in seven months.
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Education and research
M.Sc. Computer-Aided Art and Design
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
Developing the user interface of touch screens in interactive exhibitions. Design Informatics, 2(1), 2020.
Experiential marketing in mobile shopping apps: augmented reality through the technology acceptance model. Sarikaya, 2023.
B.Arch, Architecture
Anadolu University, with a year at Białystok University of Technology
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Outside work
I teach AI tools to a community of 280K+ people.
Daily posts on new AI tools and how to use them. Explaining new technology in plain words is the same skill I use at work.
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Toolbox
Research
User interviews
Usability testing
Card sorting
Diary studies
A/B testing
Languages: English (professional) · Turkish (native) · German (A2)
Design
Interaction design
Information architecture
Prototyping
Design systems
Motion
TOOLS
Figma, Framer
Adobe Creative Cloud
HTML and CSS
Stable Diffusion, ControlNet
AutoCAD, 3ds Max