Emre Can
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Emre Can
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Emre Can

Product Designer & Full-Stack Developer

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Summary

I turn complex business processes into simple, fast and accessible digital products. For nine years I have worked end-to-end with startups and enterprises, from idea to launch.

Experience

  1. Senior Product Designer & Front-end Lead

    Mar 2022 — Present

    Kuzey Yazılım · İstanbul (hibrit) · Full-time

    Leading a team of six designers and front-end engineers on an accounting & inventory SaaS.

    • Built a design system from scratch; 140+ components, 35% faster delivery
    • WCAG 2.2 AA audit and roadmap
    • New onboarding raised trial-to-paid conversion from 18% to 26%

  2. Product Designer & Full-Stack Developer

    Feb 2019 — Feb 2022

    Pera Dijital Ajans · İstanbul · Full-time

    Web apps and corporate sites for retail, healthcare and education brands.

    • End-to-end design and development on 25+ projects
    • Multilingual corporate site platform with Laravel + Vue
    • Client workshops and usability testing

  3. Freelance Designer & Developer

    Jun 2017 — Jan 2019

    Serbest · Uzaktan · Freelance

    Brand identity, websites and e-commerce for small businesses and startups.

    • Identity and websites for 18 small businesses
    • Shopify and WooCommerce store setups

  4. Graphic Designer

    Sep 2015 — May 2017

    Mavi Kare Reklam · İzmir · Full-time

    Print and digital campaigns, packaging and corporate identity.

    • Packaging refresh for a national food brand
    • Visual language for social media campaigns

Education

  1. Boğaziçi University

    Sep 2018 — Jun 2020

    M.Sc. · Cognitive Science · GPA: 3.62 / 4

    Thesis: an experimental study on cognitive load and decision time in interfaces.

  2. Dokuz Eylül University

    Sep 2011 — Jun 2015

    B.A. · Graphic Design · GPA: 3.41 / 4

    Graduated second in class; one Erasmus semester in Lisbon.

Skills

Design

  • Product & UX design
  • Figma
  • Design systems
  • Prototyping
  • User research

Front-end

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Vue
  • CSS / Sass
  • Accessibility (WCAG)

Back-end

  • PHP / Laravel
  • Node.js
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL
  • REST & GraphQL

Tools & process

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Scrum / Kanban
  • Workshop facilitation

Certificates & awards

  • Google UX Design Professional Certificate Google / Coursera · Aug 2021
  • IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) IAAP · Apr 2023
  • Digital Product of the Year — Silver Digital Product Awards · Nov 2023
  • Cognitive load in dashboards: 7 design principles Design Magazine · Feb 2024
  • Advanced React Patterns Frontend Masters · Jun 2022

References

Selin Karaca Ürün Direktörü, Kuzey Yazılım Contact details available on request
Murat Tekin Kurucu Ortak, Pera Dijital Ajans Contact details available on request

Interests

Ceramics, cycling tours, film photography, the game of Go

Last updated: 22 Oct 2026