Repair is like poetry. Allowing us to pass our very personal experiences (memories, skills, beliefs, values, and interests) to another person through a repaired artifact. By repairing a loved garment, we express our emotions and thoughts, in the form of ‘style’. …

As a coffee passionate and a curious researcher, I always ask people what is good coffee for them. — For some, good coffee represents the coffee moments that accompany their rituals, while for others, it is the very coffee that one can feel the characteristic flavor they are used to. But what about considering not only what makes the coffee ‘good’ but also ‘kind’? Coffee is literally a juice. It turns into a beverage by roasting, grinding and brewing the seeds of a sweet and pulpy fruit similar to cherry. Just as the taste of a fruit changes according to its variety and the conditions of the region where it grows, coffee too gets…

The human being is a creature whose emotional state can change very quickly. Just as we cannot remain unhappy or sad for a long time, we hardly remain indifferent to bad news received when we are in a good mood. If we were evolved to tolerate rapid mood changes, what advantage does this give us in terms of our survival? Like an octopus suddenly changing its color and texture to…

“I want to get my hands dirty.” was the sentence echoing in the room. It was the first day of a design workshop I recently participated and we were having a roundtable introduction of ourselves. …

“Tamam da, tam olarak ne demek bu servis tasarımı?” Kullanıcı deneyimini iyileştirmeye yönelik araştırma ve geliştirme çalışmalarının iş dünyasındaki önemini anlayan şirketler, stratejik karar verme süreçlerine her geçen gün daha fazla tasarımcı dahil etmeye başladılar. Bunun bir sonucu olarak, tasarım, teknoloji ve iş dünyasında gittikçe daha sık duymaya başladığımız ’servis…

Our best friends of the epoch are ‘glowing rectangles’. — We interact with screens 90% of our waking hours. We go around with smartphones as if they are an extension of our bodies. We panic when we lose our smartphones as if we lost our children in the crowd. Why we got so dependent on these glowing rectangles? They are the avatars of our boyfriends and girlfriends, our family…

Everything started with an email. I was having my morning coffee and feeling guilty of not having done any projects since 2 months. There was a client who was supposed to update me about a new project and just the day before they told me that it was not going…

Before start reading I’d like to tell you that this post made me go out of my comfort zone. You can see it like a message in the bottle left in the middle of the ocean, hoping for some readers who can receive the message, who can receive the S.O.S…

“What is your superpower?” they had asked me, during a job interview with a well-known design agency. Those times, I had already heard about their famous superpower question so I had some prepared answers which I don’t even remember right now. I didn’t get the job but since then I…