Aras
Bilgen

independent
Design Leader

About the Speaker

Aras Bilgen is a consultant that guides teams towards modern, useful, thoughtful design practices. He led the experience design and front-end development teams at Garanti BBVA, managed digital product teams at Lolaflora and Monitise, and worked as a UX planner at Intel. His clients include Huawei, Unilever, Visa, Vodafone and eBay. The products he worked on are used by more than 160 million users worldwide. He is the author of Product Research Rules, a book about research in product teams. He is currently teaching research methods at Kadir Has University. He is an avid cook and drives his colleagues nuts by winning all food-related trivia games.

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Der Neue Designer: How our good intentions hurt our profession
Aras Bilgen
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