Feyza Okumuş Karasu

Feyza Okumuş Karasu

Senior Product Designer in Istanbul, Turkey, she/her

About

I'm a product designer working on design systems; community organizer; tech nerd; ambivert.

Projects

2021

Frame DS is an end-to-end financial experience system for Paraşüt and Mikrogrup companies.

Currently, I operate the design system team — from building to aligning the project itself.

Work Experience

2023 — 2024
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Paraşüt / Mikrogrup
Istanbul, Turkey

I am responsible for designing and operating our group-level design system for design infrastructure at scale, including building and aligning the system to meet the needs of all digital products within the organization.

2022 — 2023
2020 — 2022
Istanbul, Turkey

I was part of the mothership product team that focused on both design excellence and user experience for online pre-bookkeeping (SaaS) management system. In this role, I worked on both designing the system and aligning the needs of the design team internally.

2018 — 2018
2015 — 2017
User Experience Designer at Freelance
Istanbul
2015 — 2016

Volunteering

2020 — Now

A community where digital product designers from different disciplines come together, share together.

2020 — 2021
Istanbul

I was the official former Community Advocate for Figma. We held events about product design practices — also empowered the local Figma users to bring close to each other.

2015 — 2017
User Experience Designer at Turkcell Gelecegi Yazanlar
Istanbul
2021

I gave a talk about handoff process at product teams, design collaboration and creating design specs practices.

Education

2015 — 2019
Communication Design, Bachelor of Art and Design at Yildiz Technical University
Istanbul

Graduated with the highest-ranked student degree, class of 2019.

Contact

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