United Kingdom

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Branding

Design Systems

AI Design

Stanford University

Binghamton University

Alp Turgut

On Deck

Founder, Head of Design, Photographer & Filmmaker

Photography Portfolio

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Project management

Public Speaking

Negotiation

Accessibility

Advanced data analytics

AI/ML

Brand positioning

Brand strategy

Data visualisation

Information architecture

Market research

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Usability Testing

User research

Video editing

Adobe Photoshop

ChatGPT

Figma

Instagram Ads

Sketch

Midjourney

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Following Strava’s acquisition of Runna — the Apple “App of the Year” winning running and fitness platform continue to serve as Product Design Lead at Strava, continuing to shape the future of personalized training experiences within one of the world’s most influential fitness ecosystems.

As the Founding Product Designer at Runna, I led the end-to-end product design of the mobile app and platform, crafting a premium experience across training plans, real-time coaching, post-run insights, and performance tracking. My work helped Runna grow to hundreds of thousands of users globally and played a key role in the company’s acquisition.

This role combines my passion for fitness-tech, behavioral design, and product leadership helping bring structured, science-backed training to millions of athletes worldwide.

As the founding product designer at Runna, I’ve led the design vision from the ground up transforming the app into a globally recognized platform for runners of all levels until Version 3 (November 2024). Runna V3 has been nominated for App of the Year, a reflection of our team’s dedication to crafting a world-class user experience that blends intuitive design with powerful training tools. I’d been responsible for everything from UX strategy and UI design to brand identity and product innovation—shaping a product that’s helping thousands of runners train smarter, stay motivated, and achieve their goals.

Along the way, I also designed Runna’s Apple Watch app, creating a seamless companion experience that brings real-time coaching and performance tracking straight to the wrist—deepening user engagement and expanding our ecosystem.

This success story ultimately led to Runna’s acquisition by Strava.

As the Senior Product Designer & Architect on the Salesforce transformation initiative at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, I led the experience design for OneOPS — a unified global operations platform built on Salesforce Lightning. The project aimed to modernise contract servicing, streamline financial agreement workflows, and create a scalable platform used across multiple international regions.

As a Senior Product Designer & Architect, I was deeply involved in the strategic discovery and product definition phase of the OneOPS platform — Mercedes-Benz’s unified global operations system for financial services. My role spanned stakeholder alignment, design research, service blueprinting, and enterprise-grade UX/UI design using Salesforce Lightning components.

The goal was to reimagine contract servicing, streamline finance agreement workflows, and deliver a scalable MVP that could be rolled out across multiple international regions.

At Zalando, I was the lead product designer for ZDirect, the core platform enabling thousands of brand partners to manage their presence, performance, and operations within Zalando’s ecosystem.

ZDirect plays a critical role in Zalando’s Partner Program strategy — and I helped reimagine its UX/UI to support partner autonomy, efficiency, and growth.

My work at Zalando contributed to elevating the Partner Program experience at scale — helping brands feel more in control, informed, and connected to Europe’s leading fashion platform.

At New Look, I led the complete UX and UI redesign of the brand’s e-commerce web app — bringing a modern, mobile-first approach to one of the UK’s most established fashion retailers.

Tasked with revamping an outdated experience, I delivered a responsive design system and user flow overhaul that significantly improved engagement and conversion across devices.

This project not only modernised New Look’s digital presence but also laid the foundation for a more cohesive omni-channel experience — improving performance KPIs and customer satisfaction in a competitive retail landscape.

As the Founding Product Designer at Buzzbike, I was responsible for designing the entire end-to-end digital experience from the ground up — spanning mobile, web, and operational tools. I collaborated closely with the CEO and early team to transform a bold urban mobility vision into a high-retention, subscription-based cycling product used by thousands of Londoners.

From branding to product strategy to UI/UX execution, I helped shape the experience of a brand that got thousands of people riding again in London.

As the founding designer at Rolls-Royce Portal—an award-winning digital exchange platform for the aviation industry—I was responsible for building the product experience from the ground up. Working closely with product, engineering, and stakeholders from Rolls-Royce’s R² Data Labs, I defined and led the UX and UI vision across the platform’s core pillars: the Marketplace, Data Rooms, Community, and Enterprise tools.

Portal has since grown to include over 9,000 members globally and continues to serve as a vital platform for innovation and collaboration in aviation.

As part of O2–Virgin Media’s major digital transformation programme, I played a key role in redesigning the entire customer-facing experience across e-commerce, in-store (EPOS), and self-serve platforms.

I helped shape and implement a new design system from the ground up, enabling consistent, scalable, and accessible experiences across the business.

his work was part of a long-term strategy to unify the customer experience across O2 and Virgin Media, building a modern, modular foundation for future product innovation.

Worked as a Senior Product Designer on the O2 digital transformation project, redesigning the end-to-end e-commerce and in-store EPOS experiences. Collaborated with VCCP Bernadette as part of a cross-functional delivery team, contributing to the creation of a scalable design system and modernising O2’s digital customer journey across platforms.

As a Senior Product Designer at Salesforce, I contributed to the expansion of the platform’s core CRM experience, helping to evolve key workflows, improve usability, and support enterprise scalability across sales and service teams.

Key contributions:
• Designed user experiences and interfaces for new CRM capabilities, improving task flows, hierarchy, and dashboard usability for enterprise users.
• Created wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity UI components aligned with the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS).
• Collaborated closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to align features with business requirements and user needs.
• Conducted UX research, including stakeholder interviews and heuristic evaluations, to identify usability gaps and inform iterative design.
• Contributed to the modular expansion of Salesforce’s CRM tools, ensuring scalability and consistency across product areas.

As the Founder of ArtX, I lead a design consultancy that partners with startups, scale ups, and global enterprises to craft award winning digital products, elevate brand experiences, and embed design as a strategic growth driver.

Operating at both Founder and Head of Design level, I have led multidisciplinary design teams, coached junior designers, and facilitated product strategy workshops with stakeholders across product, engineering, and leadership teams. I have been brought in to lead design direction, build design systems from scratch, and drive UX innovation across mobile apps, web platforms, and enterprise tools.

Clients include:
Nike, Rolls Royce, Salesforce, Mercedes-Benz, Runna, Strava, Virgin Media O2, Zalando, New Look, Buzzbike, Mob Kitchen, VCCP, Bernadette, UIC Digital, VRP, SalesMethods, Support Partners Air Fusion AI, FuelWarden, Noa, MovesMethod

Led UX and UI design across multiple high-impact digital initiatives at Nike, embedding Agile methodologies into cross-functional workflows and driving product development from discovery through delivery. My work spanned both consumer-facing products and internal tools, supporting Nike’s digital innovation and brand storytelling at scale.

mproved Nike Run Club (NRC) by refining Guided Runs experience and supporting Apple Watch integrations — helping users engage with real-time coaching, heart rate tracking, and run metrics seamlessly from the wrist.

Key contributions:
• Applied a range of user research methods including usability testing, card sorting, A/B testing, interviews, surveys, heuristic evaluations, persona creation, and participatory workshops.
• Contributed to the UX of Nike.net, Nike’s B2B e-commerce platform.
• Designed a unified Nike.com & Nike App e-commerce experience, ensuring visual and functional consistency across platforms.
• Led UX design for Nike Football X, a digital hub for fans to build teams, schedule matches, and interact with community content.
• Designed Nike Knowledge Experience, an internal e-learning platform developed in close collaboration with WHQ (World Headquarters, US).
• Led the strategy and UX of Finance Bot, a chatbot built to streamline internal financial queries across Nike teams.

As a Digital Product Designer, contributed to the end-to-end UX and UI design of Jira’s navigation and dashboard system, crafting wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes. This work supported a major structural shift in Jira’s navigation, influencing the broader design system across Atlassian’s SaaS products and enhancing usability for enterprise users.

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