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About Me
Hello there! I’m Çağın Başkan. Please feel free to call me Chacha. I’m a Product Designer who is passionate about creating user-centered and meaningful experiences as well as products. I’m an emphatic, creative, and curious designer with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Design. My design process is iterative with a strong focus on user-centricity through research, discovery, ideation, realization, and actualization of the final product. I love to combine creativity with the perspective I gained from graduating from a technical university, always aiming for both feasible and creative solutions. As a curious person who loves to learn new things, I developed a multi-skilled background, and still continue to improve my skillset.
Skills:
Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, VUI Design, User Research, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, Service Design, Visual Design, Branding, 3D Modelling, Social Media Design, Marketing, Photography, Videography.
Softwares:
Adobe Creative Suit (Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe XD, Premiere Pro, After Affects, InDesign, Lightroom), Figma, Sketch, Invision, Rhinoceros, Keyshot, Arduino, 3ds Max, Procreate, Dialogflow, Balsamiq.
Education
Middle East Technical University
Thesis: Entire History of You: Research and Design to Manage Digital Hoarding (Supervised by Prof. Dr. Owain Pedgley) The research takes a UX approach to better understand how the curation process of digital visuals can be improved from a user centered perspective. Interviews are made to understand motives and experiences related to digital hoarding along with the current digital tools used to manage personal visual archives. The findings are used to establish to which degree the user experience of existing digital tools is sufficient for managing hoarded visuals. For the second phase of the work, a 'research through design' approach is taken to offer design features that can help manage and provide access to digital memories in a way that is satisfying and engaging for users. A focus group is conducted in order to evaluate offered features and insights they were build on. Outcomes of the thesis are presented as insights for future researchers and designers.
Middle East Technical University
Loughborough University
Erasmus Exchange Student
Work & Experience
Product Designer
Everlaunch
• Rebranding Everlaunch • Redesigning website in an accessible and user-centered way working with front end developers, testing and improving user experience • Assisting with product launches • Designing both printed and digital visuals for web platforms, marketing materials, press features, and more • Creating and curating content for social media accounts and their management • Management of design processes, including outsourcing when needed • Involved in creating systems for the management of the company * This is a remote role
Creative Designer
Succeed & Repeat
• Responsible for all design deliverables for clients and the firm itself • Content creation and designing visuals for social media usage of clients and managing social media accounts • Branding and brand identity creation for clients • Designing websites for clients and the firm itself • Creating print-ready materials for clients • Creating systems working closely with management * This is a remote role
Creative Lead
Lumos Agency
• Worked closely with clients to gather and define requirements, establish scopes, and manage project milestones • Build and lead the creative process of all web, print, and digital marketing materials of clients and the company itself to support branding strategies • Coordinated, created, and scheduled content for social media using design, marketing, and production skills • Worked with several clients from different industries, including beauty, health, catering, tourism, and more. Clients included Jelifit, Eva Beauty Center, Anka Sofra Catering Medisante, The Park Lounge Pub, Dietician Burge Cobaner, and more
Creative Designer
FERNAS GROUP OF COMPANIES
• Working on several projects related to their Hotel (Cape Bodrum), Food Inc. (Fernas Food Inc.), Gym (Most Life Club), and Construction Company (Fernas Construction Company) • Packaging design for Fernas Food Inc • Designing printed materials such as brochures, catalogs, advertisements, press features and managing their printing process, including formatting and managing stakeholders for all mentioned companies as well as all their digital media visuals • Worked on the improvement of the brand identity of Fernas Group of Companies • Conducted photoshoots for Cape Bodrum, Fernas Food Inc, and Most Life Club and edited raw visuals for printed and digital media usage
Photographer
Barikat
• Responsible for shooting photographs and videos of events, live shows, and food served in this pub • Editing raw visual assets and getting them ready to be featured on the press, printed media, and digital platforms such as social media • Managing social media accounts • Working on marketing strategies
Graduation Project
Karel Electronics
• Worked on an Experience Recorder for people in festival/concert environment to record without missing the moment and archive their experiences easily • Project involved aspects related to User Experience Design, Interaction Design and System Design • Project steps included Creating Persona, User Research, User Journey Mapping, designing User Interfaces and Prototyping
Intern
Karel Electronics
• Worked in the R&D department, witnessed how communication between departments affects design solutions in firsthand • Had the chance to go through the company’s corporate identity manual and further developed a better understanding of the printing techniques of logos on industrial products
Intern
GRi tasarım stüdyosu
• Involved in several projects that the firm was working on, including Corporate Identity Projects • Recreated a client website aligned with Google SEO rules • Worked on several projects involving printed materials using Adobe Indesign, practiced different printing techniques • Worked on a real estate project and prepared interactive VR visuals for it
Intern
Arcelik Group
• Worked in Research and Development department in the dishwasher factory. Experienced both production and product development processes
Intern
NURUS
• Mainly worked in Metal Production Department in collaboration with Design Department, experienced a furniture's journey started with design and ended up in production
Member of the Administrative Board (Career and Internship Project Group)
IEEE METU Student Branch
• Coordinated Campus Development Days'14, which is Turkey's most significant career event organized by students and lasted three days with 45+ individual seminars, 15+ workshops, 5.000+ participants on-site, & 5.000 online participants • Actively participated in organizing several events conducted by IEEE METU Student Branch between 2013-2014
