Since 2011, I've been passionately designing digital products, gaining invaluable experience in agencies, startups, and corporations. Over the years, I have specialized in crafting digital products from scratch, analyzing and enhancing the user experience of complex systems, and helping businesses grow by design.
I am also the founder and curator of Fountn, an ever-growing design resources platform aiming to make it easier and faster for designers to access design resources.
Lately, I've dedicated my energy to creating groundbreaking side projects, sharing design insights with 20k readers on LinkedIn, and supporting aspiring designers on their career journeys.
Feel free to reach out to me at ozan[@]reaktorstudios.com if you are interested in collaborating.
Side Projects
Carefully curated design resources, updated weekly.
→ Designing the new features, curating the content, and researching & analyzing user data.
→ The project started as a Notion page, evolved on Framer, and moved onto WordPress due to more advanced CMS feature requirements.
→ Handling product management, planning the roadmap and collaborating with the 3rd party development team.
A multipurpose portfolio template designed with simplicity in mind, it features stunning imagery and includes blogs, projects, and contact pages.
Work Experience
→ Helping designers through sharing my experiences in the community.
→ Creating step-by-step tutorials.
PDS is building a suite of web3 apps and infrastructure that power the permaweb: a permanent decentralized internet.
✢ Helped implement and improve UX/Design processes in the entire organization.
✢ Designed features for ArDrive focusing on business & user needs such as file licensing, multi-select, and collaborative drives.
✢ Revamped the onboarding design to reduce the abandonment rate and improve adoption.
✢ Designed MVP version of ArNS — censorship-resistant domain names for permaweb dApps, web pages, data, and identities.
→ Established dedicated design systems for ArNS and ArDrive products, unifying styles and components.
✢ Designed wireframes, interactive prototypes, and user interfaces for the internal CMS platform, collaborating with an external development team on a daily basis.
✢ Took the initiative of planning and presenting to implement a connected design system for the CMS platform.
✢ Assisted the marketing team with visual designs.
Speaking
"We'll be talking about building a new product from scratch, how to find the best resources, monetization, business models, and more with Ozan!
Ozan is a product designer building a design resource library product for designers, Fountn."
"Establishing a user-centered design process is difficult and timely. As a web3 startup, it was even more challenging for Ozan and his team.
In this talk, Ozan will share their approach and experiences about how they improved the design maturity at PDS (Permanent Data Solutions)."
Writing
Learn what a type scale is, how to decide which scale to use, and an intro to making a scale responsive.
From the UX of motion design to inspiring creations and tools, this is a list of everything motion design.
Note to junior designers who are struggling to entering the design industry.
My notes from UX London Conference - 2022