Emre Can

Product Designer & Full-Stack Developer

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

Senior Product Designer & Front-end Lead

Mar 2022 — Present

Kuzey Yazılım · İstanbul (hibrit)

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%

Product Designer & Full-Stack Developer

Feb 2019 — Feb 2022

Pera Dijital Ajans · İstanbul

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

Freelance Designer & Developer

Jun 2017 — Jan 2019

Serbest · Uzaktan

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

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

Graphic Designer

Sep 2015 — May 2017

Mavi Kare Reklam · İzmir

Print and digital campaigns, packaging and corporate identity.

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

Education

Boğaziçi University

Sep 2018 — Jun 2020

M.Sc. · Cognitive Science

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

Dokuz Eylül University

Sep 2011 — Jun 2015

B.A. · Graphic Design

Graduated second in class; one Erasmus semester in Lisbon.

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