Handan Dogan

About Handan Dogan

Specialized in building entertainment and game industry tech products and apps on mobile, desktop, tablet and online services with simple and clean yet creative, engaging and trendy user experiences with a big focus on the end-user. Described as a hands-on capable team lead and senior manager dedicated to producing inspiring and innovative digital experiences with the latest cross-platform technology solutions. Demonstrated strong knowledge and understanding of the intersection of entertainment, gaming, music, e-commerce, marketing, culture, community, creativity and smart technology. Able to lead, supervise, mentor and partner with multivariate designers, developers, corporate clients, IT, stakeholders and executive product owners, marketing and creative tech cross-professionals in Agile development environment to achieve solid results building amazing tech products for the users.

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Ux & Product Design

   Cognizant

   Jan 2019 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Clients: Warner Bros, MGM Studios, Google, Ipsos, Meta, Abbott, Deloitte.• Streamlined and brought automation process to the clients’ complicated B2B business process by transforming aged and open resource platforms (used daily with human process prone to errors) to a single and modern multi-platform software applications powered with machine learning and AI. • Solved all the user issues on the old and outdated B2B and consumer facing entertainment services by bringing the best practices of usability and UX design as well as trendy product designs on the new smart entertainment technologies working with their heavy traffic personas and power users closely.• Consulted, managed and hands-on collaborated with the clients’ in-house and offshore UX, UI and Visual Designer teams on the new, smart and emerging technology (web and mobile) platforms and applications.• Working with the stakeholders, front-end developers and the power users, helped define user requirements and stories based on many use cases and scenarios, user pain points and new requirements for new features. • Worked with the users closely and routinely to conduct User Research, User and Usability testing and applied the findings and results to the products\' UX strategy and designs for the best user friendly product designs.• Worked on information architecture, workflows, sitemaps, task flow diagrams, user journey diagrams (for many different users from business users to end users) by developing new and modern concepts. Conducted user testing by delivering and using robust prototypes and integrated the findings back to the designed comps to make more usable features and interactions before development stage.• Designed cohesive UI design patterns throughout the applications with easy to use and intuitive hi-fidelity prototypes.• Provided thought leadership, supervision and mentorship in the field of UX design to multidisciplinary teams as well as the UX & UI design teams she lead and managed.

Education

• British Columbia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science

  2005

• METU Technical University

  Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc)

  2001

• HUMAN-FACTORS INTERNATIONAL, Seattle, Washington

  Certification, UX Specialist and Usability Analyst

  2010

Skills

• Corporate Identity
• Html
• Advertising
• Online Advertising
• Multimedia
• Flash
• Logo Design
• Information Architecture
• User Interface
• Brochures
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Art Direction
• User Interface Design
• Photoshop
• Interaction Design
• Photography
• Brand Development
• Prototyping
• Typography
• Web Development
• SEO
• Creative Direction
• Social Media
• Graphic Design
• Digital Media
• Copywriting
• Xhtml
• Web Design
• Fireworks
• User Experience
• Flash Animation
• Illustration
• Online Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Html5
• Cms
• E-Commerce
• Web Standards
• Indesign
• Usability Testing