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Deniz YANIK
Industrial Designer
dnzy anik@gmail.com
+39 333 225 2295
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Volkswagen Future Center Europe UX/UI Designer
August 2023 – Ongoing Potsdam,DE
Working as an UX Designer on future vehicle infotainment screens
Volkswagen Future Center Europe UX/UI Design Intern
August 2022 – January 2023 Potsdam,DE
Worked as an experience designer on vehicle interfaces
Deloitte UX/UI Design Intern
January 2022 – June 2022 Milan,IT
Worked as an user experience designer
EDUCATION
Politecnico di Milano M.S Product Service System Design
May 2023 Milan,IT
Middle East Technical University B.ID Industrial Design
June 2019 Ankara,TR
AWARDS
DNA Paris Product Design Contest Winner 2020
December 2021 Paris,FR
Turkish Patent National Patent Contest 1st Place
October 2020 Ankara,TR
Design Turkey Industrial Design Competiton 1st Place
October 2019 Istanbul,TR
SKILLS & LANGUAGES
ARCUS
A self-operating service system which enables co-creation of new neighborhood values and identity through cultures in Dergano
Team Members
Cansu Özmen
Daniela Barillà
Mon-Shiuan Lee
Niyati Jain
Collaboration with
R ES EARCH AND PROB LEM IDENTIFICATIO N
Literature and Field Research
Dergano is one of the neighborhood in Milan, Italy. The area was an industrial disctrict in mid-twentieth century however, the neigborhood transformed in to residencial area where Italians and immigrants live together.
Dergano is a multicultural neighborhood. In our research, we found there is no direct integration between the people who has different ethnicities in Dergano. Moreover, the knowledge exchange is limited in family scale where young generations inherent less and less knowledge about their origin cultures. After transformation to residential area, Dergano became less visible and important in Milan. Creating a new identity is vital for this neighborhood.
Interviews
We made interview sessions with citizens of Dergano to understand their context. While interviewing them, we saw some possible problems and opportunities.
“That would be very interesting, to value everyone, to respect diversity and every culture”
“Consequently I have also learned something in Arabic, without knowing the real language”
Outcomes
The inclusivitiy of different ethnicities and cultures is key to create a sustainable system.
Building bridges between younger and older generations is beneficial
“Their is no place for teens like us to hang out or do interesting activities”
Lack of multifuctional spaces around Dergano makes young generation to spend less time in Dergano.
IDEA GENERATION
We chose a landing space in Dergano to create physical encounter in to make citizens experience our services at best.
Outcomes
Landing Point
The landing space is abandon space between high schools, middle schools and 2 metro station which makes it accessible by everyone.
Giving younger citizens responsibility to organize cultural activities is significant.
In Dergano, The most populated cultures are;
Visual and verbal communications are interesting aspects of a culture.
To store cultural heritage, a digital archive is necessary
Cultural idioms and patterns
Young Empowerment
Physical Activity
Dergano, Milan
Eygptians
Chinese
Bangladeshis
Italians
SERVICE GENERATION
Light Personas
Age:18
Location:Dergano, MI
Education:Highschool
Age:65
Location:Dergano, MI
Education:Bachelors’ Degree
Age:15
Location:Dergano, MI
Education:Highschool
“I am from Bangladesh but Italy is my home.” “I can tell you all about Dergano.” “I want to engage in socializing activities.”
She wants to connect with her origin culture stronger and meet with other cultures.
She wants to share her wisdom with younger generations. He wants to express himself with crafting and show to others.
AALIA AMBASSADOR
OLIVIA MENTOR*
MARCO VOLUNTEER*
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SERVICE GENERATION
Detailed Persona
AALIA AMBASSADOR
“I am from Bangladesh but Italy is my home.”
Location: Dergano, MI
Education: Highschool
Occupation: Student
Family : Living with parents and grandparents
Language: Bengali, Italian, English
Age: was
Biography: She is a Bangladeshi girl, who studies in public high school. Her grandparents immigrated Italy in 1975. She born and raised up in Dergano along with her younger sister. Her best friend in class is an Italian girl named “Valentina.” She is very outgoing and would like to interact and teach people who is younger than her.
Interests:
•Learning new languages, ex. Spanish
•Being organized
•Team activities
•Managing student events in school
Activties:
•Practicing Spanish with her friend
•Hanging out with her friends at park
•Involving in voluntary activities
Goals:
•Introduce Bangladesh culture to her friends
•Being fluent in Spanish to speak with shop owers
•Involved in non-school activities
Painpoints:
Feeling of not belonging to Italy nor her origin because she has never been in Bangladesh
Having no extracurricular activities at school or outside of school
Having few things in common with her grandparents because she was raised in Italian culture.
Wishes:
•Having activities with her friends after school without traveling somewhere far
•Having outdoor places in Dergano to spend time with her friends
•Being closer with Italian friends in her class
•Knowing more about Bangladesh and its culture to have more topics to talk with her grandparents.
Dimensions:
Digital Literacy
Self Expression
Cultural Openess
Leadership
Bangladeshi Girl, 2021, unsplash.com
AALIA AMBASSADOR
SERVICE DETAILS
To connect different people living in Dergano, we propose ARCUS. It visions an inclusive and dynamic neighborhood where different cultures are appreciated and preserved, where the youth's vitality is joint with other generation's knowledge through social interactions.
The system is inspired by the architectural structures of arches which connect different parts to create a strong construction.
Arcus system provides; Space
Activities
Tree diffrent activities are provided which are mainly related cultural interactions.
The landing space is provided to do activities as open space which is managed by ARCUS
Digital platform is provided to create connection between people and activities as well as archives.
Digital Platform
SERVICE DETAILS
ARCUS Management System
ARCUS is managed by 4 teams.
Promotion Team is responsible for administrative and commercial aspects which are paid employees.
Language, Narration, and Expression Teams are includes young citizens between 14-18 years old who are called ambassador and older citizens who are called mentors. Each activity is organized by related team. Mentors help ambassadors with their wisdoms. Ambassadors and mentors are volunteers who live in Dergano.
Relationships between Arcus and different stakeholders can be identified in the service system map. It includes both internal structure, starting from the landing point- ArQ, and external collaboration which extends from community to a city scale of Milan.
SERVICE DETAILS
Promotion Team Services
Promotion Team provides accebility for ARCUS. They create commercial posters for the neighborhood to gain attention of prospective participants.
They place signages on strategic points in Dergano to direct people to ARCUS
They upgrade the digital archives of ARCUS. The sources of the archives come from the activity outcomes.
Egyptian Culture
Bangladeshi Culture
Italian Culture
Chinese Culture
SERVICE DETAILS
Hang a Lang Activity and Language Team
Language Team organizes the Hang-a-Lang activity* which is oriented around cultural integration by learning different languages, especially through idioms.
The similarities between idioms of different languages contribute to the engagement of people.
During the workshop, participants can pick up an idiom/ a word as a topic to talk about. They share their thoughts on the topic reflecting their own culture.
The outcome of the session is to come up with a new idiom and display it on the wall of idioms as well as archived on ARCUS web page.
SERVICE DETAILS
Storytangling Activity and Narration Team
Narration Team organizes Storytangling activity* which brings young generation and elderly people together.
During workshop, tellers share diverse stories about either their culture or the neighborhood.
Younger participants listen to them and at the end of session they create their stories based on told ones but from their own perpectives.
The outcome of the session is new stories which is archived on ARCUS web page
SERVICE DETAILS
Macramesh Activity and Expression Team
Expression Team organizes Macramesh activity*. It is a cultural pattern and craft workshop in order to express cultural values through patterns and colors. Because patterns are elements that transmit messages that belong to cultures and history.
During workshop, patterns from different cultures are used as trigger of curiosity among young participants.After that, they apply these patterns on to recycled construction meshes with the help of artists who assist the workshop. Later, these meshes are placed in the construction sites or specific spots to highlight in the neighborhood.
Egyptian pattern
Chinese pattern
SPACE DETAILS
ARCUS Landing Space ArQ
ARCUS provides an open space in neighborhood with collaboration of citizen of Dergano. It also create a new identity for Dergano with its cultural patterns and idioms.
PARLOUR
ARCUS Digital Service
The website of Arcus is an archive for outcomes of three activities so that people can always access to diverse cultural elements. Besides that, it is also a tool for events’ information and sharing among residents in neighborhood.
The event section has the list of information about date time and location of an event.
For promo video of ARCUS;
Idiom archive section has the list of idioms and their meanings as well as new phrase/idiom add tool.
Story archive section has the list of stories from Storytangling activities.
VOXEE
Device offering games for 5-7 years old children with auditor y processing disorder (APD) to facilitate their therapy
AWARDS
Collaboration with
2019
Literature and Field Research
Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a neurological hearing problem that affects about 5% of school-aged children.Kids with APD do not have organic (mechanic) problems in their hearing systems.
In the therapy products market there is no specific solution to demands of the kids to facilitate their therapy.
40% of kids with APD comes with sensory integration .
Voxee has B2B business model where the customers purchase Voxee from different stores. However, customer service is supported by Voxee itself.
Hospitals and Rehabilitation Centes for Special Kids
production with recycled materials
PRODUCT D ETAI LS
Therapy Games
Each module comes with two different games focusing different conditions.
Voxnote is a note repeating game to facilitate children therapy focusing on sound pitch level differences
Expected developments are analysing of different pitch of notes, and differentiate frequencies of sound,shot-time memory and gross motor sklls.
VOXTORY
Voxtory is a story telling game to facilitate children therapy focusing on main sound and background noise
Expected developments are focusing on a specfic sound in background noise and create meaningful relations in a text.
Voxlocate is a sound location game that helps developing locating sound sources in real life.
Expected developments are understanding end location of sound source and fine motor skills.
Voxwap is therapy game with compound words to help children to understand such words.
Expected developments are understanding compound words and combine two different words in to one.
Voximal is a audio macthing game with sound of animals and nature elements.
Expected developments are short-time memory, sound matching, differentiation of similar sounds.
Voxwap is physical activity game that focusing on exercise with audial commands
Expected developments are understanding instruction to help learning problems and gross motor skills.
Voxum is a game focusing on mathematical learning
Expected developments are improving math learning skills and reasoning.
Voxpell is a spelling game focusing on phonems and syllables of a word.
Expected developments are differentiation of similar phonems and improving language skills.
Voxnote & Voxtory
Voximal & Voxercise
Voxlocate & Voxwap
Voxum & Voxpell
PRODUCT DETAILS
Interfaces
Each week has different games and different levels according to development of the children. Parents can learn easly how to play games and what are the gains from specific games. There is a Analysis section which shows the process of the children. Game data analysis supports to observe succes and fails. With this data, doctor can suggest further exercises to children.
Voxee has a smart phone application called VOXEE APP that helps parents to update Voxee weekly, to contact with their doctor, to get further info about APD and to communicate with other parents who have APD children.
PRODUCT D ETAI LS
Usage Scenario
Parents can update Voxee weekly. Children locate Voxes according to light feedback in their room. Children can turn on Voxee with Remote.
Children can select from eight games.
They are able to play with their every limp.
After therapy session, children store Voxes on charger for next usage.
PETAMOR
Mobile application which supports the well-being of the veterinarians who work night shifts
Team Members
Beste BOZD RT
PET AMOR
Literature and Field Research
According to literature research, there are three main problems of veterinarians.
User Research Methodology
Prioritisation of cases is significant.
Shadowing
Mobil devices are appropiate for rush hours. Diary
Post Interviews
Communication is the key to solve problems.
USER RESEARCH RESULTS
Promoting communication experience between veterinarians and pet owners while motivatting veterinarians
Affinity Diagram and Empathy Map
CONCEPT GENERATION
Design Directions
Documentation of info of pets to examine the progress of them
Lack of systematic solution for appointment system
Making easy to explane medical treatments to pet owners
Initial Design Ideas (S.C.A.M.P.E.R)
Two different app to help both veterinarians and pet owners.
PRODUCT D ETAI LS
Low Fidelity Wireframes
App for owners
App for vets
User Tests
App for owners
High Fidelity Wireframes App for vets
PRODUCT D ETAI LS
Information Architecture
Typography and Color Palette
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