Independent Product Designer. Previously design @carbonhealth @fitbit @omadahealth and more ≈ Former National Sailor

San Francisco ✈️ Istanbul
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Summer sailing in San Francisco Bay ☀️⛵️
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Designers watching people use their interfaces #designtwitter
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I know everyone is loving the South Korean pistol shooter in the Olympics with robocop vibes. I present you the Turkish pistol shooter. 51 years old. Flip flops, hands in pocket. He would’ve lit a cigarette if he could. My vibe. (He got🥈btw) #OlympicGames
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Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes on behalf of @KeremBursin. Hope you’re doing something fun, Kerem.
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Made bacon.
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Replying to @KeremBursin
I mean... sky is the limit, we could even raise awareness + money to support Istanbul Convention to combat violence against women♀️
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Istatistiksel bir calisma yapmak istiyorum. Gunumun % kaci @KeremBursin hayranlarini mute etmekle geciyor. Yeni takipcilerimin moralini bozmak istemiyorum ama, yanlis Kerem.

ALT Schitts Creek Reaction GIF by CBC

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Sailing they said. Sunset they said. It’s gonna be romantic they said.
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UI Designer tip of the day: Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real data. Design with real d...
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So much design and career advice going around. Just putting it out there, it’s okay not to know everything. It’s okay not to read a book about everything. It’s okay to learn as you go from your mistakes. It’s okay.
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Being a designer is one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life. I feel like I’m making a difference. I’m solving problems. I feel empowered. I feel lucky.
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What visual design research looks like for me 🤓
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You should have a side project. You should have a real project. You should code. You should prototype. You should design. And manage. You should have a portfolio. You shouldn’t have time to have a portfolio.
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Just realized you can check flight status by entering flight number in iOS search. What!
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oh shit
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Apple: Push Notifications should not be used for advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes or to send sensitive personal or confidential information. Apps:
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I loved Instagram so much. It was my way of having somewhat of a photography portfolio. I followed photographers that I admired. It seems so far now. I just deleted it from my phone. There has to be ppl like me, what r we replacing IG with?
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New home office, who dis?
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Designers, I cannot stress the value of exploration enough. Explore everything, explore the stupidest ideas, explore the ugliest colours, explore the dumbest layouts, explore the weirdest fonts, explore the cheesiest animations.
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Before you design that new feature, ask yourself— Will this feature spark joy for your users?
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Share your designs in Sketch Stories 🤓
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Here's a note I took about 4 years ago at 3:01am.
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I used to care about product aesthetics. #fuckit
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Have been an interdisciplinary designer at startups for over a decade now. Here are a few things I learned. (Open for discussion) 👇
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Probably time to clean up this file 🧹 Anyone else work like this? 🤓
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Designer's 50 Shades of Gray Syndrome. 😬
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I snapped pics of jelly fish with my iPhone XS and edited in @usedarkroom.
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#PGEshutoff sucks, but sky is beautiful 🤓
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Replying to @lubeayar
İşlerinde kötü insanlar değil. Kötü insanlar.
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Added a few pegboards to my office 🤓 in favor of more desk space ✅
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Second guessing your font choice a month before launch.
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Here's my design process 👇
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Double fuck you.
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A typical designer v pm conversation 🤓
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Told my son he doesn’t have to verbally notify us when he goes pooping anymore. So this morning I found this on my pillow 🙄
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"Gelecek gençlerin, gençler ise öğretmenlerin eseridir." —Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Hello 👋 VP of Design for a Series B startup, less than 250 employees, design team of 4 (including me) + manage contractors + agencies + architecture firms. I do "design work" every day. AMA 🤓
Awkward Hypothesis: If your VP of Design regularly does Design Work, you don't have a VP of Design.
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This is as clean ✨ as my workspace gets. Once a year for like a good 15 minutes 😬
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So many rejection stories. After school, as a temporary visa holder you get a 1-year period where you have to find a job, so time is essential. It’s stressful. So first two weeks I applied to a total of 100 jobs, no joke. I got 2 interviews, 1 offer. Accepted it.
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Golden Gate Bridge, December 20, 2019 at 09:13am.
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Important life update ⚡️ Excited to announce, I've accepted an offer to coach my son's soccer team next season.

ALT Surprise Growl GIF by Apple TV

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New clinic art, who dis?
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Heeey 👋 quick life update. I'm joining @carbonhealth. It’s an amazing company transforming how we experience healthcare & making it more accessible. I couldn't be more excited! Bring on my HIPAA training!
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Random note I took from a late night chat with @jedmund on design.
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Sooo. I started building a wooden sailboat model 👴🏼⛵️ Here’s a visual 🧵👇
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Focus less on titles, names, resumes, companies. Focus more on problems and applying your skillset to solve them. It’s not who you work for, or what your title is. It’s what you do that matters. Focus less on the past or the future. Focus more on right now. Right this second.
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Designers iterate with both.
Performers iterate with external feedback. Artists iterate with internal feedback.
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Lyft driver: What do you do for a living? Me:
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When we say we’re redefining how u experience healthcare from ground up, we mean it 🤓 If ur into massive problem spaces & have an appetite to move fast, talk to us. We’re hiring 👩🏻‍💻Product Designers 🧑🏾‍🎤Brand Designers 🏥Functional Designers 🧩Service Designers 🕵🏾 Researchers
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Maybe social networks should hire less growth hackers, designers, thought leaders, and more sociologists, psychologists, historians, political scientists? Building technology is not the main problem here. It's building tech for a society, responsibly. Just a thought.
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We now designed and built (and acquired and renovated) 67 of these beautiful @CarbonHealth clinics in the US in 12 states ✨
12 new @CarbonHealth clinics (~2/w) - Overland Park, KS - Kansas City, MO - Littleton, CO - San Leandro, CA - Woodland Hills, CA - Sherman Oaks, CA - Temecula, CA - SF Stonestown, CA - LA Midtown Crossing, CA - Brea, CA - Portland, OR(popup) - LA, CA(popup) - Glendale, CA(popup)
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Not bad for a portfolio site built with @webflow in like less than a day with probably 0.1% of my work and a few paragraphs about myself. kerem.co 🤓
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Bütün doğum günü iyi dilekleri için @KeremBursin adına teşekkür ediyorum. Kutlu mutlu olsun Kerem, mavi tik almak istiyorum sana doğum günü hediyesi olarak. Bu çile bitsin 😂
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journey of a startup designer: design decks → landing pages → screens → prototypes → more decks → job descs → wireframes → decks → design the team → deeeccckks → meetings → meeting structures → team facilitations → org charts → more decks ↔ meetings
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What if Apple shipped a design software and called it xDesign, integrated with xCode. What if we designed and built apps in the same application...?
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Not a bad morning walk.
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1/ Detach from the things you design emotionally. 2/ Don't forget that you design solutions. 3/ Your work can always be improved. 4/ Receiving critique is essential to mastering your craft. 5/ Empathize with people, understand their situations.
Everyone, leave 3 nuggets of advice for young designers just graduating. No one right/wrong approach so what worked for you? I’ll start: 1. It’s all about people + connections. 2. Asking questions can work miracles—start asking. 3. Work slows when you stop showing your work.
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11 years with this animal.
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border-radius: 4px;
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Made a coaster from scrap walnut.
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Say hi to dog.
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I don’t get neumorphism. It looks like someone thermoformed the interface. I don’t see the purpose of it other than being an aesthetic choice. Skeuomorphism had a purpose, and it was intentional.
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Really appreciating the print, packaging and bottle design of @drinkhaus. Just lovely.
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Mac users: we want dark mode! Apple designer: Okay...
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New @CarbonHealth office vibes ✨
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Don’t think enough people celebrate sunset where I live.
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Hey y'all we just launched our new @CarbonHealth website. And I dribbbled 🤓 dribbble.com/shots/8434332-C… (obviously) This was a foundational project that will allow us to host a bunch of new services and features very soon, which I'm suuuuuper excited about!
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Hi Design Twitter, how do y'all organize your Figma pages for websites and apps? Screenshots 📸
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Seeing charts in a candidate’s resume has not once made me pass on a candidate 🤷🏻‍♂️
Designers, ■■■■■■■ please ■■■■ stop ■■■■■■■■■ using ■■ charts ■■■■■ to show ■■■■■■■ your skills ■■■■ in your ■■■■■■■ resume
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Yesterday we had to say goodbye to the goodest dog in the world. I will truly miss her. Thank you for the best 14 years together. Thank you for teaching us to be in the moment. Thank you for showing us how to love unconditionally. You are forever loved and never forgotten, our sweet beach bum 🤎
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how do you do, fellow kids?
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Last week we launched Health Pass. Today we released the secure QR code, which allows you to share your COVID-19 vaccine status with anyone. Now available to 640k+ patients who got their vaccinations through a @CarbonHealth powered site.
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This is my grandpa’s watch. Around 106 years old, Ottoman Empire era. Still works just fine 👌
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❏ Deactivate his Twitter account ❏ Remove him from office ❏ Prosecute him + his family for all the crimes they have committed ❏ Prosecute the terrorists who broke into Capitol Hill ❏ Prosecute the cops who took selfies w/ terrorists
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Back to your Dell displays, peasants. #WWDC19
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Very much appreciate the photography art direction in Postmates app 👌
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Today, @carbonhealth secured $100M in Series C funding thanks to Dragoneer, @BrookfieldVent, @DCVC, & @BuildersVC. This investment allows us to further develop our omnichannel care strategy and scale nationally as a primary care provider. (1/6)👇🏽 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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No moral of the story. Work gets better. You get better. Life goes on. 🙃
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Design systems are there to help companies cut costs, and increase productivity. Good design is making intentional decisions to solve problems, not simply designing a one off unique form element. I think your argument is rather weak.
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You guys create an archive page in your sketch file and dump all your old 💩 artboards in it right? 😬
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Hi, hello. Okay. So my wife had this idea for an app, mainly to help organize her life. But she's been pitching the idea to me like a broken record for a year or so. She really believes in it. So I'm happy to announce I'm taking her as my next client.
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Do people say “current status” anymore?
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Heyo 👋 I'm fully transitioned into freelancing 😎 again 👉 dribbble.com/shots/3111331-I…
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Got an email 📩 Subject line: This will make you a better designer. Me:
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Okay. Happy Friday. I have a feeling some of you want to freelance but not ready to take the leap. Change, 💰, finding work, not making it are only some of your fears. I've been a freelancer on/off for the last decade. Ask me anything and I'll try to openly answer your questions.
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More than computers, we need human connection. More than scalability and speed, we need sincerity and authenticity.
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Being uncomfortable with your task usually means you're growing.
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California in February. Bakersfield, Death Valley, Big Sur.
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High five to all who run their own businesses ✋
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Look up.
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By far the most fulfilling job i've ever had ❤️
@Kerem oversees our #design team, bringing his experience with brands such as @Fitbit and @MyFitnessPal to Carbon Health. He’s an interdisciplinary designer who creates and defines #visual and #interactive design systems. bit.ly/30HH42l #meetourleaders #lifeatcarbon
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I'm super pumped to announce that I’m joining the lean and intelligent team at @Operator as Product Designer. drbl.in/oVcJ
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You learn design in school, on the internet, at home, from books, websites, podcasts, apps. It's a skill you learn. It's not how good you get at it. It's what you do with it. Think about your impact on society.
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Who cares who’s right when kids are dying 🙁
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Man, I've been using Sketch for a week, Photoshop now feels like
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This feels wild. Every time.
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Design systems are great. Only way to scale your design language(s) within your org. I get it. But why introduce all these super complicated analogies. Atoms, subatoms, molecules, organisms. Simplify, people. Simplify.
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How's your day going? 🤓
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