Ekrem Ates
Product Designer
Istanbul, Turkey
+90 (533) 084 82 51
be.net/ekremates
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
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.
- 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
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
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instagram.com/atesekrem
dribbble.com/ekremates
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