Bora Dan, Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Bora Dan

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Omnia

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, computer programming
Experience
14 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Omnia
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2022

My current project is building out a Design System for the Abu Dhabi Government. From a foundational Design Token system (allows Theming) to fully scalable components, modules and templates in English and Arabic. This system is robust and extremely modular allowing the client to build and scale new entity sites as well as linking the design decisions to development by exporting the Design Tokens into JSON for the Front-End Engineers to utilise.

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Hepsiburada
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • September 2020 to February 2022

Hepsiburada one of the most popular e-commerce platform in Turkey. I was working in Design System team as a leader. We were creating and working on a Design System project with Agile methodologies to feed all other design projects Hepsiburada has.

Lead Designer at Edaf GmbH
  • Germany - Stuttgart
  • January 2020 to September 2021

This was a remote position. We were using Figma and working on a design system with the development team.

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Justlife
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2019 to April 2020

Justmop is a Dubai-based startup company. We as a product team were working from Turkey. The main thing in this role that I’m closely working with the developers as a design system creator.

What was I responsible is:
- Creating sustainable components with using all figma abilities,
- Preparing easy readable rules for the developers,
- Creating best UX flows for the users with product managers,
- Tracking developers’ tasks as an end-eye
- Taking care of all design rules even it’s about advertising or printed media.

Product Designer, UI/UX at Kariyer.net
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • December 2017 to April 2019

Kariyer.net is job board for employers and candidates. It is the best job company in Turkey. I was working as a Product Designer in employers project and I prepared design kit to developers. Thinking users is the most important thing for me. I was working with the product managers and UX researchers closely. We were running design sprints using scrum methodology.
Skills: Sketch App · Design Thinking · Interaction Design

Product Designer at Tap Tap
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • June 2017 to September 2018

This is a start-up. I created all design components from scratch as a Product Designer.
Skills: Responsive Web Design · Sketch App · Product Development · Design Thinking · Product Design

Frontend Developer at DOL, Markakod, Sabah, Ciceksepeti, Hürriyet
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • April 2012 to September 2016

I continued to my professional career as a Front-end Developer between these years and I added many knowledges about front-end technologies to my skillset like Angularjs, Reactjs. I experienced Agency and Holding working style. I met with Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban to manage our tasks easily. I took a certificate about Agile to make my working process flow smooth.

One of the most impressive work I’ve done was Turkey election’s page with Hürriyet company in 2015. In a limited time we created election tracking page using many front-end technologies and beside it I created interactive vectorel Turkey district map using Sketch to make the page useful and easy readable.

Html Developer at E-kolay.net
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • September 2009 to April 2012

In 2009 I started to my career working as an HTML Coder for a company who publish news, finance, game contents to people. It was most famous portal in those days. I added Javascript and jQuery technology knowledge to my skillset beside HTML and CSS.

Education

Diploma, computer programming
  • at Afyon Kocatepe University
  • September 2009
Diploma, Machine Design
  • at Sakarya University
  • September 2004

Specialties & Skills

System Design
Product Design
User Interface Design
User Interface
Web Design
user interface design
user centered design
user interface
user experience
web design
design system

Languages

Turkish
Native Speaker
English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Agile Methodologies and Scrum (Training)
Training Institute:
ACM
Date Attended:
April 2013
Duration:
20 hours