About me

My name is Güneş and I am a systems designer.
I like to put things together and watch them function :–)

Currently in my 3rd year studying Interaction Design at Sheridan College.

Throughout the program, we get introduced to everything from the history of computational media, to databases, to typography. Concept and technique are
always together. As a result of this multi-disciplinary lifestyle, I’ve developed a slight obsession with observing, and designing systems.

Besides design and communication, I’m passionate about cooking, listening to painfully loud guitar music, and picking up new skills. I’m a friend to all cats and dogs.

Communication skills

Computer to Human:

Information architecture, UX design, usability practices.

Human to Human:

Multimedia storytelling, user testing, design research methodologies.

Computer to Computer:

Physical computing, secure API integration, web development.

Projects

Artifact Explorer

Artifact Explorer is an interactive object display that encourages users to explore the European continent through a reactive map. Each time the user moves the map, they are provided with a different cultural artifact originating from the new centre point.

While this project was made to appeal to a wide audience, its primary intention is to provide an unstructured and entertaining way of engaging with history and culture.

Project brief:

... build an engaging interactive user experience that brings dynamic data to life for your users through impactful visual design and narrative.

... create, access, transform, and display data on web using JS, fetch data from third-party APIs, learn about foundational web standards (JSON, HTTP, REST), consider System Design in relation to UX ...

Target audience:

Object reference
for artists.

Supplementary resource
for researchers.

Classroom activity
for educators.

Key learnings:

✓ Ensuring secure communication

Established frontend communication between different APIs, and built the backend hierarchies that ensure database and API credential security.

✓ Crafting narrative from data

Developed methods of re-contextualizing raw JSON data into narrative.