Ekrem Ates

Product Designer

Istanbul, Turkey
Passionate about building amazing products for humans and bring emotions through creative designs. Mainly focused on designing clean, usable and engaging interfaces for many kind of platforms. Participate in early concept development and design ideation. Incorporate usability and field research findings into the product design.

Work Experience

Hurriyet

Product Designer

May 2016 - Istanbul, Turkey

Userspots

UI & UX Designer

Mainly responsible for creating cool looking interfaces, useful interactions and effective prototypes for wide-range of clients:

- Designed various versions of the product UI/UX by working closely with the stakeholders, beta customers and product management team.
- Conducted UX studies to gather feedback and improve the product.
- Actively participated in design integration through CSS/HTML and worked closely with the engineering team using various channels and tools (Slack, Invision, Marvel, etc.)
- Worked closely with optimization team and helped identify and validate product directions and opportunities by exploring countless UX/UI concepts through wireframes and rapid prototyping.
- Helped in organizing events including UX Camp, and UX Alive which is the biggest UX conference in EMEA Region.
May 2015 - May 2016 Istanbul, Turkey

Medina/Turgul DDB

Copywriter

Worked for both local and international brands such as Volkswagen, Vodafone, Siemens, Lipton, Türkiye İş Bankası, Ülker, Digiturk, Doritos, Dominos Pizza, Algida, Koçtaş and Tat.
February 2014 - March 2015 Istanbul, Turkey

Tacirnet

UI & UX Designer

Responsible for designing web and mobile user interfaces. Had a chance to improve myself about UI & UX design and work for leading home appliances, clothing and technology companies of Turkey such as Kiğılı, Simfer and Kemal Tanca.
March 2012 - March 2013 Istanbul, Turkey

Siemens

Intern

Fulltime internship at Siemens Turkey as communication technologies intern.
September 2008 - June 2009 Istanbul, Turkey

Education

Istanbul University

2011 - 2015 Turkey

Languages

Turkish (Native),
English (Fluent),
Korean (Conversational),

Awards

Design Taxi

Featured Designer

2015

Interaction Design Served

Featured Work

2015

Student Show

Featured Work

2015

Advertising Awards

2x Winner (First Place) - 25th Aydın Doğan Young Communicators 1x Winner (Grand Prize) - Short Film Contest - Ministery of Foreign Affairs of Korea 1x Best Advertising Campaign of the Year - Istanbul University 1x 3rd Place - Suso UCC Short Film Festiv

Skills

Branding & Identity, Interaction Design, Product Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Experience, User Interface Design,

Find Me

linkedin.com/in/ekremates

dribbble.com/ekremates

instagram.com/atesekrem