Web Design on Mustafa Kurtuldu | Blog & Portfolio

Twitter's Horizon Design System

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Twitter’s design system, Horizon, was relaunched to focus on universally accessible UI, user-driven content and dynamic visuals. As Product Design lead for Horizon, I led on cross-platform consistency, defining success, lobbying leadership, designing processes and mentoring our Senior & Staff Designers. My research showed that Horizon saved ~70% of a designer’s time, most using the library daily.

Twitter's Drafts

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The existing drafting system within Twitter needed to be fixed, as it was undiscoverable and didn’t sync between devices. I led a redesign and research across multiple engineering teams, running multiple designs that explored ~20 designs. I conducted numerous usability studies with users to determine the best approach to launching our proposed vision on our platforms.

Twitter's Navigational System

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Twitter’s navigational system was inflexible, and if we were to launch, all of our proposed features would have reduced the space for actual content. As Design Lead, I was responsible for launching a new scalable navigational system, the Dash Menu, across all our platforms that enabled feature experimentation without disrupting the existing menu or content.

Web Apps & Google Chrome

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Progressive Web Apps are super-powered websites that users can install on a phone or computer. I led an initiative with the Chrome engineering team to improve discoverability, education and usage. My work led to a greater than 100% increase in PWA installation and engagement. You can read more on the Chrome Blog.

Secure Sign-in & Google Chrome

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Two-Factor authentication, Phone as a Security Key & WebOTP empowers users by allowing them to sign in with their phones securely. Millions of users sign in with their phones as an authentication method every day; sadly, many logins fail. I was the UX lead on our Web Platform, and my team redesigned several sign-in flows and increased successful logins by a third.

Google.dev

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

As UX lead Google Developers documentation sites, my team aimed to redesign learning for our developer audience. Google.dev launched at Google I/O 2019 to an audience of ~7,000 attendees. It achieved over 3,000 active users by the end of our first week with 48k pageviews.

Squoosh.app

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A new web tool, Squoosh, downsizes, compresses, and reformats images. I was the UX lead and designed the app’s user journey, flow and visuals. Launched at Chrome Dev Summit 2018, the app received over ~400k visitors, which resulted in over ~230k compressed images in its first week. See app here.

Material Design Lite (MDL)

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Material Design Lite was Google’s Core Material Design Web implementation framework that allowed designers and developers to add a Material look and feel to their sites. As UX lead, I designed templates and visual assets. My advocacy work saw increased MDL’s usage to over three millon URLs. See more here.

Material Money PWA

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A currency converter web app, Material.Money is a showcase of designing motion on the web. As UX lead, I designed the core experience, visual and motion design. Due to its success, the app was featured in the A Book Apart ‘Progressive Web Apps’ book as a great example of how to design notifications and network states. See app here.

Chrome Custom Tab download UI

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Native Android apps use Chrome Custom Tabs to link to web content. Usually, this means opening a webpage in a ‘Chromeless’ tab. However, when users clicked on a file, a blank page appeared. I led a redesign of the download flow, working with our illustrators & animators to create a delightful experience for Android users.

Career Advice video on icould.com

Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:33:12 +0000

Recently I was asked to take part in recorded interview for careers advice website icould.com. I spoke about my education and how I became a UX designer. Check out my interview – icould.com/videos/mustafa-k.

We are Digital Architects

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:06:25 +0000

I’ve uploaded the slides for my talk that took place at the Future of Web design Conf. You can see the slides here : We Are Digital Architects

Future of Web Design 2014

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:06:53 +0000

It has been an amazing couple of months. Firstly getting my work published in .netmagazine, then seeing it put posted on creativebloq and finally getting invited to speak at Future of Web Design next year. The talk I’ll be giving is titled “We are Digital Architects: Evolving our design language for the web” and will involve some of my ideas about the creative process and how we can embrace it as a journey of discovery, changing our thought process and language along the way.

Net magazine article

Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:34:13 +0000

I was having a bit of a rant with two of my colleagues Sven and Ben at Digital Science about design debates and trends. That prompted me to write a 500 word email about flat design and other trends to .net magazine, a few hours later I received a positive reply telling me that it was a good idea and should submit it as an article, which I did and now its in their October Issue or read the article directly on Creative Bloq.

The design disease

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:00:21 +0000

Updates This article was featured in .net magazine There is an epidemic in the design industry. The sickness takes many forms and can affect any one of its citizens at any time. The symptoms, if not caught early, can lead to catastrophic consequences. The disease is known by many names but the one I shall call it is “ego”. It can attack anywhere, anytime and usually starts when someone triggers a debate by voicing his or her opinion.

Responsive design

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:42:41 +0000

Once upon a time web design / interface design was simply the act of taking a portrait designed brochure and turning it on its side to create a landscape layout with buttons stuck on to make it cool and new media.

There wasn’t a convention of what constituted good or bad web layout, semantic mark up or even screen width. Everything seemed to change depending on who was designing / coding the said site.

Putting your foot down with ipsum?

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:54:51 +0000

Recently read a thought provoking article called “The effects of themed Lipsum on design” by Andrew Fox where he wrote that Loren Ipsum had a negative impact on design and we as designers should demand most of the content upfront.

Ten things they don’t teach you at University

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:26:20 +0000

Now and then, I meet up with old school buddies, and as the night progresses, we always have one of those conversations about what we didn’t learn at Uni. Sadly, what we were taught goes out the window soon as we enter the industry.

Myths of web design

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:37:05 +0000

.net magazine just published this excellent article on some of the myths of web design (7 links in the navigation, 3-second rule) which, to be honest, I’m surprised that some of these still exist.

Taking a trip down Internet memory lane

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:52:47 +0000

internetarchaeology.org is a archive and showcase of graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture. Im especially liking the flash section 🙂 loving the old skool tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeens 🙂.

Web design and stuff

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Updated Mostly grammar fixes :) Just read this thoughtful insight into web design which I have to say I agree with. Its to do with web design books and why we don’t feel as inspired to do a bit of web design after reading them (unlike other creative fields, photography etc.). The problem with putting websites in a book is that they are interactive things and can only be fully appreciated in their own environment.

Designing for the third sector

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:08:46 +0000

Smashing magazine recently did a piece on designing for non-profit websites which is worth a read if you plan on working / designing in that sector. Designing for the charities/government/local authorities can always be a bit tricky as there are plenty of limitations for example costs, images & large amounts of copy etc….Smash give some great examples of how it can be achieved.

Periodic table

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:17:24 +0000

WhatTheFont

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:59:57 +0000

Every couples of months I get an email with a jpeg attached asking me if I know what font is being used in the attachment. What I would then proceed to do is go through my entire font collection to see if I can find it or at the very least a close match. This process could take about an hour or so……ripping out more hair then I can afford to lose…

XML & Flash

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:49:52 +0000

The Republic of Code posted this tutorial / article on XML and Flash which i found useful so i decided to post it up. It also saves me from having to search through google again 🙂 XML & Flash