Hi! I'm Meriç – a staff product designer at Shield AI based in San Diego.
In the last decade, I've designed digital and tangible experiences at LinkedIn, Carbon Health, Carnegie Mellon, and more.
Case Studies
Hivemind Forge
Accelerating autonomy development
Helping teams to develop sovereign autonomy for their vehicle platforms with an AI-powered toolset that helps quickly design, test, and deploy using an SDK via CLI and UI.
08/2024 - Now · Staff Designer, Shield AI
Some initiatives I worked on:
- Shipping Forge’s first generally available no‑code/low‑code visual interface (0>1) as part of Hivemind SDK.
- Supporting Special Projects team's projects with rapid conception, visualization, and prototyping.
- Helping Hivemind exec team to build and scale a cross‑disciplinary design team (1>10+) from scratch.
Interested in learning more? Please get in touch.
LinkedIn Notifications
Redefining notification quality
A system-level program that moved notifications from send volume and clicks to usefulness and member trust
03/2021 - 08/2024 · Staff Designer, LinkedIn
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LinkedIn Groups & Events
Communities at LinkedIn
Connecting the world’s professionals via quality conversations within communities they trust
07/2018 - 03/2021 · Sr Designer, LinkedIn Design
Some initiatives I worked on:
- Bringing LinkedIn Groups back to the flagship app with role/membership management tools and setup nudges to improve efficiency and content quality.
- Helped professionals connect at online events through personalized attendee recommendations.
Interested in learning more? Please get in touch.
Designing for Trust (Thesis)
Exploring trust and collaboration in
conversational e-commerce agents
An actionable guideline on how to design for trust, aimed for interaction designers, who design conversational e-commerce interfaces
10/2018-05/2018 · Master of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
Selected Experiments
Roundaround
Multi-player drum machine
Roundaround lets multiple users jam together and create looped rhythms online in a visual way where all steps are placed in concentric circles.
Skills: three.js, react, html, css
Team: Ali Momeni (lead). Various engineering collaborators over the years
Open Source: View on Github
Duration: 2022-2023
Dranimate with LiveDraw
Turn any 2D image into a hand-puppet
Dranimate lets you animate any 2d image with your hands using a webcam. Livedraw lets you create your canvases of expression by bringing dranimate puppets and sketches (via inverted webcam feeds) to project them to the real world.
Skills: three.js, react, html, css
Team: Ali Momeni (lead). Various engineering collaborators over the years
Open Source: View on Github
Duration: 2019-2022
Poli
A platformer game made of tangrams
In Poli – the first ever game that I've designed and developed using Unity, players navigate geometric environments inspired by the tangram to find Poli’s mother while avoiding enemies.
Skills: Unity, C#, game design & development
Source Code: View on Github
Brief: Develop a 2D platformer that has 3 levels and 3 enemies.
Duration: 2 Weeks (Fall 2017)
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