# ozgur.design

> Portfolio of Oz Gultekin, Product Experience Designer based in Canada.

Public sections of the ozgur.design homepage. Product Experience Design case studies live on the site.


## Intro

Oz Gultekin. Product Experience Design. Based in Canada, remote. Balancing momentum and craft.

Designer refining the interplay between tools, interfaces, and experience.


## Beginnings

It started with an 8-bit computer and the demo scene. That curiosity found a more deliberate path. Typography, animation, photography, then building websites from scratch when the role didn't have a name yet.

Moving between continents added a different kind of fluency. Different languages and ways of being taught me to balance feeling and form, improvisation and intention.


## Trajectory

Read this part as the résumé. The work has stretched across eight cities in six countries. Berlin, İstanbul, Montréal, New York, Reykjavík, Salzburg, San Francisco, and Toronto. Each move reset the brief. Each city sharpened a different muscle.

The industries shifted as deliberately as the geography. Sports media, marketplace e-commerce, omnichannel retail SaaS, live broadcast technology, ed-tech for college admissions, travel commerce for a national flag carrier, consumer fintech, and legaltech estate planning. Different regulations, different rituals, the same discipline. Designing the product experience end to end and carrying the complexity so the customer never has to.

The teams varied just as widely. Two-person seed studios where the designer also writes the deploy script. Hundred-person scaleups stitching their first design system together. Enterprises where a single flow touches a dozen stakeholders before it ships. Working across that range, again and again, is the part that compounds.


## Approach

Design is shared early, questioned often, and never precious. Every decision has a reason behind it, feedback is treated as a guardrail rather than a verdict, and jargon gets left at the door so the work can actually land with the people it affects. The process stays elastic enough to break its own rules when something better comes along, and consistent enough to get somewhere worth going.


## Tinkering

Outside of client work, I keep my hands busy. All side projects live on the personal site.

- GrandGuard (https://ozgur.ca/project/grandguard): Five essential digital security habits for parents and grandparents, in plain language, across six languages.
- Griddy Up (https://ozgur.ca/projects/griddy-up): Grid calculator for designers with live preview.
- Scranton DVD (https://ozgur.ca/projects/scranton-dvd): Bouncing DVD logo screensaver for macOS.
- (Anti) Capitailism Rot Com (https://ozgur.ca/projects/capitailism): Daily dispatch against AI capitalism.
- Faviconry (https://ozgur.ca/projects/faviconry): SVG to full favicon set in the browser.
- Aipocalypse Now (https://ozgur.ca/projects/aipocalypse-now): AI news, doom-scored and updated daily.
- Blogroll (https://ozgur.ca/projects/blogroll): Curated directory of independent personal blogs, browsable by geography.
- Montreal Best (https://ozgur.ca/projects/montreal-best): City guide by locals, five handpicked spots per category.
- Hex or Not (https://ozgur.ca/projects/hex-or-not): Palette swiping game.
- Tiloji (https://ozgur.ca/projects/tiloji): Browse emoji by visual similarity.
- Rizzle (https://ozgur.ca/projects/rizzle): Slang vocabulary test.
- Shartup (https://ozgur.ca/projects/shartup): Cultcore startup satire generator.
- Colour Love (https://ozgur.ca/projects/colour-love): Adopt a colour.
- NNN Global (https://ozgur.ca/projects/nnn-global): Maps every /now page on the planet.
- Chroma Census (https://ozgur.ca/projects/chroma-census): Hue distribution of any image.
- Hex Appeal (https://ozgur.ca/projects/hex-appeal): Colour palette studio with harmony analysis.
- HAIL 9000 (https://ozgur.ca/projects/hail9000): Incredibly co-operative AI.
- Continental Drift (https://ozgur.ca/projects/continental-drift): Imperial and metric conversion.
- Plot Twist (https://ozgur.ca/projects/plot-twist): Turns conversations into charts.
- Our Hue and Native Land (https://ozgur.ca/projects/our-hue-and-native-land): Colours and symbolism of all 13 Canadian provincial and territorial flags.
- Death and Taxes Canada (https://ozgur.ca/projects/death-and-taxes-canada): Provincial sales tax math.


## Tools

Tool-agnostic, and well practised at staying that way. Current lineup: Figma, Adobe CC, Framer, Miro, Rive, Storybook, React, Astro, Tailwind, shadcn, SwiftUI, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Git, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Hotjar, Jira, Linear, Vercel, Cloudflare.


## Contact

Everything lives on the personal site. Messages welcome on LinkedIn. GitHub for tinkering.

- Personal site: https://ozgur.ca
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ozgurdesign
- GitHub: https://github.com/ozgurdesign