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Merhaba! I’m Özge, a product designer.

especially the ones nobody planned for

Product design for finance, legal and enterprise software, from research to live product.

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Available for new work Çanakkale, Türkiye · remote

Selected work

Things I’ve designed.

neta Compliance Panel

  • Finance
  • Enterprise
  • Design system

Compliance management for companies with business units in several jurisdictions. An obligation calendar that runs to thousands of rows across countries, a company record dense enough to satisfy an auditor, and an approval flow you configure and preview in the same screen. I designed it end to end: module wireframes, hi-fi screens, and the design system engineering builds from, with tokens for colour, type and spacing and components specified down to their loading, empty, error and disabled states.

neta compliance calendar: each obligation split into requirement, declaration and payment columns, with status dots and upload actions. neta company record: registration and financial fields, a shareholders table with ownership percentages, and a directors table. neta default confirmation flow: a live preview of the approval chain above the steps being configured, with a step left unconfigured. neta design system: colour palette, typography scale, spacing scale, table system and status badge library.

jinMap

  • Civic
  • Accessibility

A public map of support services for women in Istanbul, made with Kadın Zamanı Derneği. Filter by district, by institution and by the kind of help you need: psychological, social, legal or economic. Then see at a glance which districts have a centre that can help you in Kurdish. Every centre card carries address, phone, opening hours and a route link, because the moment someone opens this map is rarely a calm one.

Visit the live map

jinMap on desktop: a filter panel, a shaded district map of Istanbul, and an open card for a women’s support centre in Avcılar. jinMap on mobile: the same map with the centre’s details in a bottom sheet.

InvestAG

  • Finance
  • Mobile

A mutual-fund research app for Turkish retail investors: 371 funds you can sort the way you would sort a spreadsheet, themed tags to find them by, and virtual portfolios you build, weight and share. The hard part was the portfolio builder: pick fund types, set their weights, pick funds inside each type, and never lose your place when you step away to read a fund’s detail page.

InvestAG home: today’s biggest movers as a sortable table, with fund codes tinted by fund type and a green outline marking a participation fund. InvestAG fund selection: search, fund-type filter chips, a multi-select list, and a button that counts what you have chosen. InvestAG portfolio weighting: a donut whose segments match the listed percentages, with a running total of 100 percent.

meslektaş

  • Legal
  • 0 → 1

A knowledge-duel game for Turkish lawyers, played between bar associations. Thirty seconds a question, ten XP for a right answer, and a statute reference under every single one, because the audience will look it up. Design system, onboarding, gameplay and league screens, plus a working prototype running on a bank of 574 reviewed questions.

Play the prototype

meslektaş onboarding: a sample question card with the correct answer and a plus ten XP badge. meslektaş home: streak and XP counters, a league standing card, a live duel entry point and question categories. meslektaş question answered: the correct option marked green, the others dimmed, and the governing statute cited beneath. meslektaş leagues: individual, bar and school tables, with your own rank pinned to the bottom of the list.

SNP Service

  • Health
  • Consumer

A consumer genetics platform, and a product I work on as part of the team. You upload the raw DNA file you already own, from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, and get back readable insights on nutrition, sport, sensitivities and health. The design problem is trust: this is a field where confident-sounding claims are cheap, so every insight has to show how sure it is and what it rests on.

Visit the site

The live SNP Service site: the headline “DNA’ndan Daha Fazlasını Keşfet” beside a carousel of the genetic topics on offer. SNP Service upload modal: a two-step flow that first asks which testing platform the raw DNA file was downloaded from. SNP Service insights grid: twelve genetic topics as illustrated cards, each with a low, average or high band. SNP Service insight detail: a risk percentage, a confidence score, six gene regions with impact bands, and the papers the insight is based on.

About

How I work.

I’m Özge Turgut. I work in fields dense with rules, data and risk, where a wrong turn in the interface costs someone real time or real money. I start with research, test ideas early, and follow the work all the way to launch.

Alongside client work I write on inclusive and ethical design, and my master’s thesis puts those arguments to work in a public-transport prototype. Building in public from Çanakkale.

AI is part of how I work now, not something bolted on beside it. I use it to move faster through research synthesis, copy and production variants, and to pressure-test my own thinking. What ships is still my judgement.

  • Research

    Surveys, interviews and usability testing with the people who actually do the work.

  • Product design

    Information architecture, flows and interface design for dense, rule-heavy screens.

  • Design systems

    Components, tokens and documentation that survive contact with a real codebase.

  • Accessibility

    WCAG 2.2 AA as a starting condition, not a layer added at the end.

  • AI in the workflow

    Generative tools used where they genuinely speed the work up, and set aside where the call has to be mine.

  • Tools

    Figma for systems, prototypes and handoff. Adobe CC and After Effects for motion.

Publications

Things I’ve written.

  • 2026

    Kullanıcı Deneyimi Tasarımına Sorumlu ve Kapsayıcı Bir Bakış: Victor Papanek’in Felsefesi

    With Özlem Acar · Akademik Sanat, no. 28, pp. 25–50 · DOI 10.65082/akademiksanat.1814343

    Reads Victor Papanek’s function model against Peter Morville’s UX honeycomb, and proposes an ethics–sustainability–inclusivity framework for user experience design.

  • 2025

    The American Dream and Kitsch: Idealized lifestyles in graphic design

    Journal of Arts, vol. 8, no. 1, e2657 · DOI 10.31566/arts.2657

    How kitsch aesthetics and the American Dream met in mid-century advertising imagery, and what that fusion did to consumer culture.

  • 2026

    Kapsayıcı Kullanıcı Deneyimi Tasarımı: Görünmez Kullanıcılar İçin Görünür Deneyimler ve Bir Uygulama Önerisi Not yet published

    Master’s thesis · Graphic Design, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

    Built on a 142-person survey, the applied chapter is “nereye?”, a multimodal transit app covering buses, ferries, district minibuses and walking. 53 screens designed to WCAG 2.2 AA, with an Easy-Read mode, high-contrast and 200% text variants, and a SUS-based usability test plan.

ORCID 0009-0008-6291-412X

Background

Where I’ve been.

Experience

  1. 2018 – present

    Visual Designer & Creative Lead

    Freelance

    Marketing and campaign design for investment and portfolio management firms; interface work on investment apps; end-to-end product design for Compliance Panel, from wireframes to developer handoff.

  2. 2022 – 2025

    Product Designer

    SameUp, Istanbul (remote)

    Websites and digital products for clients across several sectors, finance first: interface design for investment and banking products, alongside the DestekBank rebrand films and campaign material.

  3. 2020 – 2021

    Design Consultant

    Filmmor Women’s Cooperative, Istanbul (remote)

    Brand design and art consulting.

  4. 2018 – 2019

    Visual Designer

    Filmmor Women’s Cooperative, Istanbul

    Corporate identity, festival and campaign communication.

  5. 2015 – 2016

    Digital Marketing Intern

    GroupM, Istanbul

  6. 2012 – 2013

    Intern

    Medya TV, Istanbul

    Television studio production and camera operation.

  7. 2012

    Assistant Director

    Mass Medya, Istanbul

    Film production and art direction.

Education

  1. 2024 – 2026

    Master’s degree, Graphic Design

    Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

  2. 2015 – 2019

    Bachelor’s degree, Visual Communication Design

    Istanbul Bilgi University

  3. 2012 – 2015

    Bachelor’s degree, Radio and Television

    Istanbul University

  4. 2007 – 2012

    High school diploma

    Vefa High School, Istanbul

Certifications

  1. 2026

    Yapay Zeka ile Üretkenlik Akademisi

    Coderspace

  2. 2025

    UI / UX Design Specialization

    Academy of Arts and Design London

Contact

Say hello.

ozge.trgut@gmail.com
0539 585 76 37 LinkedIn ORCID