ømerburakpolat
ømerburakpolat
Design Engineer — Senior Product Designer
Turning an ambiguous problem into something clickable in days, building the tooling that makes that repeatable, and teaching teams to do it themselves.
note
This whole site is an experiment around a second brain and creating artifacts using AI in meaningful and cutting-edge ways.
That's why you can see explicit notes around the site. The whole thing is an experiment in optimizing with AI and seeking perfect collaboration between machine and human.
By now it kind of builds itself. The context lives in a second brain, the instructions and the documentation live in the repo, and the agent works from both.
selected work
Picked at random, redrawn on every visit.
Course Companion
I pitched a course page nobody asked for. It became a funded mission and went live as an A/B test. Sixteen states of what a page may say, flip them here.
case study · 2026 · read it
Soothe
A native iOS proof of concept that pats you until your stop is near, then wakes you kindly. A 2026 rebuild of my 2020 case study. Every ride is simulated.
case study · 2026 · wip · read it
Serenity
A calm app of bedtime stories for adults, baked in or written on demand, each with a scene composed from its content. No navigation bar, just story cards.
experiment · soon · wip · read it
AI Flashcards
A short-term vision for the flashcards in Studocu AI: a deck made from a student's own sources, one rating per card, and a deck that says what to study next.
case study · 2025 · read it
Flight Planning
A planner for three aircraft, from a December 2019 take-home task: today's plans beside one map, every crossing shown, only the close ones in time a conflict.
case study · 2019 · read it
Solo
A social app for guitar tones, shipped on iOS and Android. Every pedal and amp is drawn, and the studio knob is rebuilt live on this page.
case study · 2019 · read it
Course Chat
The take-home that got me hired at Studocu in 2022: a live chat with voice rooms on the course page, chosen after asking students what they already do.
case study · 2022 · read it
Strapi Marketplace
Strapi's design assessment, April 2022: a plugin marketplace for its admin where a developer sees who made a plugin and what others think before installing it.
case study · 2022 · read it
Borda Sensei
A mobile app for Borda’s temperature, humidity and particle sensors
case study · 2022 · read it
Skoove
Skoove said its iPad dashboard looked scattered. My answer, from a March 2022 task: a first page that opens on your course, Courses and Songs in a room each.
case study · 2022 · read it
Lighthouse
A mobile app for the nurses, technicians and managers who keep a hospital's medical devices working, designed for Borda
case study · 2021 · read it
apps i make
Nagare
Zen fishing & rowing
Neon Rebirth
Procedural arcade shooter
Honing
Learn Dutch
Beast Protocol
Training app for lifters
KetoGen
Built to keep keto interesting, not just compliant
Soothe
Rest on the way home
iOS · soonBespoke
Crafted cocktails
Serenity
Bedtime stories for adults
iOS · soon
