A Portfolio and blog for Mustafa Kurtuldu

Talks

DDX Munich
DDX Munich

DDX Munich

Munich has been a spiritual home for me. The last time I was here was when Twitter split, and I was curious if my laptop would work. Regardless, the show went on :)

This time, I spoke about designing for speed at DDX. I also judged for the start-up Olympics, which was a lot of fun.

SINFO
SINFO

SINFO Lisbon

Back to Lisbon! It’s been a while, but I got the chance to give a talk at SINFO and a conference for tech students. It was probably one of the best-organized events I’ve been to in a long time. I talked about hacking user perception and the binary of design.

How Users Improvise Tomorrow's Experiences
How Users Improvise Tomorrow's Experiences

I spoke at the Amuse / Craft Conference in October this year about User Fudged Experiences and what happens when users improvise with our products or services, usually in an unexpected and hacky way. The talk revealed how you can use user-fudged experiences to discover what your users are trying to accomplish, explore user perception, spot examples of design affordances in the physical world and how you can apply these to your digital product. …

Muslim Tech Makers
Muslim Tech Makers

Muslim Tech Makers

Last week, I spoke at a collaborative event by Muslamic Makers and Muslims at Meta Network, who came. We came together for an event that captured the community and gave back. We had over 120+ people come along!

My talk, at Push UX.
My talk, at Push UX.

Push UX 2022

I just got back from the Push UX Conference, which was a fantastic event; looking forward to posting the video of my talk. It was a wonderful atmosphere, so a big shout out to the organisers and audience.

My talk described User Fudged Experiences that happen when users improvise with our products or service, usually in an unexpected and hacky way.

User Fudged Experiences to discover what your users are trying to accomplish, explore user …

London Web meet-up

We are digital architects....part 2

I did another talk, this time at the London Web meet-up. It was the same talk at FOWD but with some extra info on things I had discovered since (CH & EX units for CSS).

The session focused on really making you think as a designer: How has language caused design block? What about the debate on things like skeuomorphic versus flat design? And what are the misconceptions about agile and self-imposed limitations of visual vocabulary?

By looking …