[ ISTANBUL, TR ][ 41.01°N — 28.98°E ]
Your friendlyneighborhooddesign engineer.
Because I build, I know what actually gets made, what breaks, and where the real constraints sit. My design decisions survive contact with production — instead of dying at handoff.
01 // Selected work — ( 12 ) projects
One I designed and built end to end, nine I led or shaped with a team, one that was a three-day test I nearly failed on day one. Some Pickleball work stays behind a password until it launches — click through and it will ask.
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Pickleball
.com Six products, one system.[ PASSWORD ]
2024 – present - /02
Pickleball
Tournaments .com One tournament page, every tab, every state.pickleballtournaments.com · previous design · LIVE
2024 – 2025 - /03
Pickleball
.com Homepages Four front doors, one system.[ PASSWORD ]
2024 – 2025 - /04
Pickleball Native Apps
Two apps, two platforms, every screen designed once.[ PASSWORD ]
2024 – present - /05
VOLGEN
Research to live in three days.volgen.ai · LIVE
2026 - /06
Tmob AI Studio
An enterprise site, designed in the browser.tmobstudio.ai · LIVE
2026 - /07
Balkan Transfer
From form-filling to decision-making.
2023 - /08
Cuckoo
Seven small decisions that made a wellbeing app usable.
2022 – 2023 - /09
Innos
A marketplace in three days, from a deliberately vague brief.
2024 - /10
Akbank Wings
A national bank's UI, refreshed in a week.
2022 - /11
Morpa Kampüs
One interface, four audiences, ages 8 to 60.
2021 - /12
Morpa Ders
From matching to learning.
2021
- 6
- products kept feeling like one, at Pickleball.com
- 1M+
- active users on the Morpa education platform
- 3
- days from research to live, for VOLGEN
- 10
- written recommendations, two from direct managers
02 // Signed off — ( 10 ) recommendations, excerpted
Here's what my colleagues say about working with me.
“I've worked with a lot of designers, and I count myself lucky to work with Aydin. He's at the top of that list. He's easy to work with and he actually communicates.”
“I really enjoyed working with Aydın at Pickleball.com. He's incredibly detail-oriented and has a strong eye for creating and maintaining visually consistent designs.”
“I've had the pleasure of working closely with Aydin on several high-impact projects, and he is one of the most talented designers I've collaborated with.”
“I have had the pleasure of working with Aydin at Pickleball.com as his Project Manager for various projects related to our product suite.”
“We at Bild had the pleasure of cooperating with Aydin for almost two years. I highly recommend Aydin for his exceptional skills and contributions as a UX/UI designer.”
“Aydin is one of the best designers i have worked with. He is well versed in both UX and UI design, always willing and ready to help and listen. He appreciates good beer too 🙂”
“I've worked with Aydin for just more than a year. He was in my team all the time and we collaborated on several projects.”
“Aydın'la 6-8 ay kadar beraber çalışıp birden fazla proje tamamladık. UI yönü çok kuvvetli, deneyimli, yaratıcı ve en önemlisi uyumlu ve beraber çalışması zevkli.”EN — “Aydın and I worked together for 6–8 months and completed several projects.”
“Aydın'ı firmanızdaki UI & UX Designer pozisyonu için tavsiye etmek isterim. Aydın ile yaklaşık 10 ay MorpaKampüs'te beraber çalıştım.”EN — “I would like to recommend Aydın for the UI & UX Designer position at your company. I worked with Aydın for about 10 months at MorpaKampüs.”
“Aydın yenilikleri takip eden, sürekli kendini geliştiren, edindiği bilgileri iş arkadaşlarıyla paylaşan işinde disiplinli ve başarılı bir çalışma arkadaşı.”EN — “Aydın is a colleague who keeps up with what's new, keeps improving himself, shares what he learns with his coworkers, and is disciplined and successfu…”
Two from people who managed me directly · one from a CEO · one from my current PM · Turkish ones kept in Turkish, translated underneath · full versions on LinkedIn ↗
03 // Operator — Istanbul, TR · remote-friendly
FIG. A — the operator. Turkish (native) · English (full professional)
I'm Aydın — a product designer and design engineer in Istanbul.
By day I'm at Pickleball.com, across six interconnected products: Pickleball.com, Tournaments, Team Leagues, Leagues, Clubs, and World Pickleball Rankings. Consumer surfaces, operational tools, mobile. My job is the UX architecture and the interface design, and keeping all six feeling like one product — the shared card and search components, the type, the behaviour. The Figma structure I introduced became the team standard, which I'm quietly pleased about.
Outside that I take things from idea to launch on my own. Most recently VOLGEN: research to a live site in three days, NotebookLM for the competitor work and IA, then Antigravity with Gemini 3 Pro and Claude Opus 4.5 for the build, including a working CRM flow. The part I enjoyed most was the small stuff — dynamic text boxes, popcorn-style pills — because moving fast shouldn't mean losing the human parts.
The combination is the point. Because I build, I know what actually gets made, what breaks, and where the real constraints sit. My design decisions survive contact with production instead of dying at handoff.
Before this: Bild in Podgorica, where I introduced a research approach, a documentation method and a handoff process, and was promoted to Lead Designer. Agency work with corporate clients before that, and an education app used by over a million people at Morpa.
Bachelor's in Communication Design from Yıldız Technical University. I do my best work in cross-functional teams with shared context, fast feedback and clear ownership. Turkish and English.
EXPERIENCE /
- Feb 2024 – present
Pickleball, Inc. — Senior Product DesignerRemote
UX architecture and interface design across six interconnected products, from V2 of the core consumer surfaces (Search, Homepage, Listings) to the reusable card and search components adopted across the suite and the Figma structure that became the team-wide standard.
- Sep 2022 – Feb 2024
Bild — UI/UX Designer → Lead DesignerPodgorica, Montenegro
Introduced a new UX research approach, a documentation methodology and a handoff process, led major client projects, and was promoted from UI/UX Designer to Lead Designer.
- Mar – Sep 2022
Agency Look — UI Designer → UI/UX DesignerIstanbul
Moved from UI Designer to UI/UX Designer within two months, designing for high-profile corporate clients.
- Jun 2021 – Mar 2022
Morpa — UI/UX DesignerIstanbul
Designed the core application — used by over 1 million active users — as one interface shared by the student, teacher, parent and administrator apps.
- Jan 2018 – Jun 2021
Freelance — Designer
Branding, social media and UI/UX work for direct clients over three and a half years, alongside a degree in Communication Design.
CAPABILITIES /
- Team Leadership
- Design Engineering
- AI Product Design
- Rapid Prototyping
- Design Systems
- Next.js / React
- Motion
- Figma
CURRENT CERTIFICATIONS / ( 13 ) TOTAL
- Get Your Product Used: Adoption and Appropriation IxDF · 2025
- AI for Designers IxDF · 2025
- AI for Design Systems: How to Stay Ahead and Lead IxDF · 2025
Yıldız Technical University — BA Communication Design · International University of Sarajevo — Visual & Communication Design
Turkish: Native · English: Full professional
04 // Say hi — replies within a day, usually faster
Open to senior product design and design engineering roles. Also just happy to talk about design systems, front-end craft, or what AI is actually good for in a designer's week.
aydintokur1@gmail.com