I'm Yunus. Designer by training, technologist by choice. The choice came from wanting to understand the materials I was working with, not just use them, and that curiosity has set the direction for 25 years. Industrial products at Arçelik. Digital banking at Garanti. Service design at Fjord, where I grew the Istanbul studio from one person to twenty-five. Most recently, digital and AI at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
The constant across all of it: I sit between the people who build technology and the people who use it. Both groups are usually right about something, and rarely talking to each other.
Right now I'm building my own products and running AI residencies through Signifer 人工 Lab.
Using LLMs to experiment and usually ending up with a content that is useful to share. Mostly on AI, design, and the patterns between industries that are interesting to me.
AI-assisted play with Southern Water's published 2024 spill data and rainfall records
ArticleHow different people respond to AI in the workplace
Visualisation25 years of data showing how house prices and rents outpaced wages