Senior UX/UI Designer · Istanbul

Hi, I'm V. Burak Keles

I design web & mobile products around real user needs — clear, effortless, and genuinely enjoyable to use. My computer engineering background means I also speak the developers' language, so the experience users see is the one that actually ships.

UI Design User Research Product Design Design Systems Prototyping HTML & CSS
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Open to freelance & full-time
Istanbul, Türkiye · GMT+3
Online · usually replies within a day
experience7+ years
focusUX/UI Design
statusOpen to work




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About me

The designer who can read the codebase.

I'm a UX/UI designer who works end-to-end: research, flows, high-fidelity UI, and the design systems that keep it all consistent. Whatever the product — a nationwide recycling platform, a health app, a tactical control panel — the job is the same: make it clear, effortless, and honest for the person using it.

My edge is where design meets engineering. With a computer engineering degree, I design with the build in mind: components that map to code, tokens instead of loose values, hand-offs developers don't need to decode. That's been my angle since 2015, when I kept seeing beautiful designs that couldn't be built — and buildable ones nobody enjoyed using.

Since wrapping up three years at DIAS Group in 2025, I've been building Xyroxia — a design system builder that exports straight to Figma — and publishing the UX Map, an interactive guide to 108 UX/UI concepts, while supporting a wide range of client projects as a freelance designer and consultant. I'm open to both freelance and full-time roles.

Education

Computer Engineering

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University · 2012–2019 · completed while working as a designer

Interaction Design Foundation

Continuous Certification · 2019–Present
Experience
2022 — 2025

Senior UX/UI Designer

Atlastek / DIAS Group

Owned end-to-end design of Türkiye's national deposit-return system — consumer app, deposit-machine screens and stakeholder dashboards for TÜÇA, Darphane and operators — on one shared component library.

2021 — 2022

UX/UI Designer

Turkeyana Clinic / Extratik

Designed the full patient–provider journey for Docnmore, a global digital health platform: clinician discovery, booking, video consultations, records — plus the clinic-side dashboard that replaced manual scheduling.

2019 — 2020

UX/UI Designer

Altosis Information Technologies

Led interface design for websites, admin panels and mobile apps across a rolling client portfolio — Teknosa, Monster Notebook, Türk Telekom — from kickoff and requirement gathering to developer hand-off.

2016 — 2017

UX/UI Designer

Milk Lab34

Designed Kidofun, a children's activity booking app, end to end — search and filtering, secure in-app payment, booking history and planning.

2015 — Present

Product Designer & Design Systems Consultant

Independent / Freelance

Usually the only designer on the engagement: scoping with founders, then discovery, IA, UI, prototypes and production-ready hand-off. Working independently since 2025, building Xyroxia.




Tools I work with



Selected works

Selected product design case studies.

A few featured projects — each opens a full case study with the problem, my role, the process, and the design decisions.

DOA — Recycling & Deposit Return case study cover

DOA

Recycling & Deposit Return
ResearchWireframingUI DesignPrototypingiOSAndroidAdmin Panels
SwarmOps — Command & Control case study cover

SwarmOps

Command & Control
ResearchBrandingWireframingUX/UI DesignPrototypingDesktop
Paymint — Digital Finance App case study cover

Paymint

Digital Finance App
ResearchBrandingWireframingUX/UI DesignPrototypingiOSAndroid
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UX Map

Explore the thinking behind the design.

An interactive guide to 108 UX/UI concepts across 12 chapters. Explore the map, discover a concept, and dive deeper.

Explore UX Map
Currently building

Xyroxia — a design system builder that exports straight to Figma.

My current project: a tool for building complete design systems — color, typography, spacing, and components — as interconnected modules rather than isolated pieces. Change a token and every module that depends on it updates with it, the same way a real design system should behave. When it's ready, the whole system exports directly into Figma as a working library, so there's no gap between what's designed and what a team can actually build with. It's the same conviction that's shaped my career: design and engineering shouldn't live in separate worlds.

Coming soon
Design system,
as one system.
Color · Typography · Spacing · Components
Exports directly into Figma as a working library
Xyroxia Palette Builder — OKLCH scale and accessibility checker
Xyroxia Token Mapping — semantic tokens bound to primitives
Xyroxia Playground — component states, contrast and JSON spec
Xyroxia Animations — easing curves exported as motion tokens
Certifications

Trained by the people who wrote the field.

15+ professional certifications from the Interaction Design Foundation — courses built by pioneers like Don Norman, Alan Cooper, and Bill Buxton, blending theory with real-world UX practice.

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Completed IDF certifications
Continuous certification since 2019
ai for designers
hci
mobile ui design
user research methods and best practices
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Contact

Let's build something
worth using.

Have a product, a redesign, or a design-system problem? Send a message or email me directly. I usually reply within a day.

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