Portrait of İlke Büyükkalaycı, smiling

I’m İlke,
a designer
who stayscuriousalways

I’ve worked across multiple design disciplines — from industrial product design to service design, and finally to UX/UI for digital platforms.

This multidisciplinary background lets me approach problems from different angles, balance user needs with business goals, and translate complex challenges into practical, scalable solutions.

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Where I’veworked

From ideas to products — 2022 to now.

  1. Apr 2026 — NowDenizli, TR

    Solopreneur

    Freelance UX/UI & Product Designer

    Independent practice: end-to-end products for direct clients and outsourced UX/UI for agencies, from research to handoff.

  2. Sep 2025 — Mar 2026Vienna, AT

    Minimum Code

    UX/UI Designer

    Sole designer across concurrent client projects — research, design systems and production-ready, low-code delivery.

  3. Jul 2023 — Sep 2025İstanbul, TR

    Wunder Innovation Studio

    Service & Product Designer

    End-to-end digital products and services, steered by qualitative research and usability testing.

  4. Jan — Feb 2023İstanbul, TR

    Tasarım Üssü

    Student Design Intern

    UX/UI research, usability testing and interactive prototypes in Figma.

  5. Oct — Dec 2022Denizli, TR

    Yonga Mobilya

    Student Design Intern

    Furniture products from sketch to 3D model, designed with production and cost in mind.

What Ibring

Four years of UX/UI, grounded in industrial and service design.

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Design practice

  • UX/UI design
  • Service design
  • Design systems — creation, documentation, governance
  • Interaction design & information architecture
  • User journey mapping
  • Usability testing & rapid validation
  • Workshop design & facilitation
02

Prototyping & handoff

  • Advanced prototyping in Figma
  • Micro-interactions & motion
  • Component libraries & design documentation
  • Developer handoff — Figma Inspect, Jira
  • Cross-functional work with PMs, developers and stakeholders
03

Tools

  • Figma
  • Jitter
  • Lottielab
  • After Effects
  • Jira
  • Rhino
  • SolidWorks
  • KeyShot

Rhino, SolidWorks and KeyShot come from my industrial design years — handy for 3D, product renders and physical–digital work.

Alwayslearning

A product designer by training, a learner by habit.

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Education

  • 2016 — 2022İstanbul Technical UniversityIndustrial Product Design — Bachelor’s degreeİstanbul, TR
  • 2018 — 2019Sheffield Hallam UniversityProduct Design — Erasmus exchange programmeSheffield, UK
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Languages

  • TurkishNative
  • EnglishProfessional working proficiency
  • ItalianBeginner
  • GermanBeginner

Want to work together?Let’s talk.