Sahin Gumus

Sahin Gumus

UX Director in London, he/him

About

I’m a UX Designer with 10+ years experience. My passion is solving complex challenges by combining meticulous research, innovative technology and beautiful design. I'm currently Director of User Experience at Moving Brands.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Director of User Experience at Moving Brands
London

Leading the design of digital products and experiences for some of the world’s leading brands and fast-moving startups.

  • Guiding the UX team in strategy creation and implementation

  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet user needs and business goals

  • Ensuring design methodologies and approaches are correctly implemented across all projects

  • Providing mentorship and growth opportunities for team members

  • Contributing to business development efforts, strategic direction and UX capabilities within the company

2021 — 2023
Lead Digital Designer at Moving Brands
London
2021 — 2022
Sr Designer & Analyst at PwC
London
2017 — 2022
Sr Visual Designer at C Space
London

Partnered with leading global brands to bring insights to life through design. Collaborated alongside both consultancy teams and clients to develop bespoke, engaging outputs that drive impact for key clients.

  • Simplified and communicated complex data sets through creative visualisation to give audiences a human-first understanding of technology

  • Built cohesive and flexible design libraries to streamline workflows

2015 — 2022
Freelance Design Consultant at Self-employed

Freelanced with a range of startups, large organisations and creative agencies including Google, IBM, WPP, Ogilvy, Grey, Interbrand and more.

2018 — 2020
Visual Designer at IBM
London

Worked with global teams in both internal and client-facing roles to grow business with key clients in travel & transportation, financial services and more.

  • Art-directed projects highlighting IBM’s vision, AI-infused systems and offerings

  • Collaborated in Design Thinking workshops to surface personas, articulate user journeys, visualise new concepts and create clickable prototypes

  • Projects included multiple $10m+ winning proposals and outputs shared with 9m+ followers worldwide

Projects

2024
Designing a new online experience for A/B experimentation platform Eppo
2023
Activating the new brand in Microsoft Advertising's design system
2023
Enhancing the social discovery experience by combining brand and interaction for Facebook
2022
Transforming the BBC homepage into a distinctive, daily destination
2021
Designing the new BBC News app experience

Speaking

2023
Judge at DubsTech Protothon 2023
University of Washington
2023
'How design meets engineering?' at Faculty of Computer Science
University of Vienna

Education

2014 — 2015
Master of Business Administration at Cardiff Metropolitan University
United Kingdom
2008 — 2014
Bachelor of Science at Istanbul Technical University
Turkey
2013 — 2013
Exchange Student at Technische Universität Clausthal
Germany
2004 — 2008
High School, Science and Math at Istanbul Cagaloglu Anadolu Lisesi
Turkey

Certifications

2022
Allyship in the Workplace from The Other Box
2020
Behavioral Economics from Ogilvy
2020
Storytelling from Cannes Lions School
2019
Creativity for Business Growth from Cannes Lions School
2019
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner from IBM
2019
User Experience (UX) Design from University of the Arts London

Contact

Website
LinkedIn