Can Uzun 🦁

✔️ Built and led a boutique design studio delivering 25+ products across Web3, fintech, health, and insurance. ✔️ Launched 10+ Web3 platforms end-to-end, including GameFi projects with 10K+ NFT mints. ✔️ Mentored 7+ designers and helped clients improve design ops, branding, and user experience at scale.

✔️ Led product and design from zero to scale for a Web3 loyalty platform backed by $1.8M pre-seed funding (Outlier Ventures). ✔️ Built core product flows, CMS, and scalable design systems supporting growth and retention. ✔️ Contributed to ~20% average increase in user retention and scale to 50,000+ transactions.

✔️ Redesigned the DEX and launched FX and Futures products. ✔️ Led UX/UI redesign of advanced trading products; supported daily volumes up to $4M. ✔️ Contributed significantly to securing a €30M Series A investment round. ✔️ Improved user experience and conversion, achieving ~487,000 monthly page views.

✔️ Designed an immersive Web3 writing app; grew community by 30% during beta and 20K+ users in the first month ✔️ 500K+ Users

✔️ Designed carbon-offset app and contributed to rapid initial growth: 20,000+ users and $50M AUM. ✔️ Supported AQRU’s product launch and maintained user engagement despite challenging market conditions.

✔️ Designed GP Diary and Pay Rates Heatmap used by 5K+ GPs, improving transparency and daily workload tracking. ✔️ Created BMA GP Rates Heatmap, a web tool for tracking payment rates. ✔️ Utilized KendoReact framework for development.

✔️ Designed a user-friendly web app with upvoting, earning, tokenomics, rewards, web3, and AI integration. ✔️ Established a 5K daily engagement platform. ✔️ Created a unique token economy of HERE.news, emphasizing Micro tokens for content engagement and quality.

✔️ Executed competitor analyses and evaluated unique selling points. ✔️ Redesigned and prototyped Prism Aggregator for mobile and desktop. ✔️ Redesigned the asset management platform. ✔️ Created a comprehensive design system.

✔️ Designed a complex GameFi product. ✔️ Revamped staking DeFi product. ✔️ Collaborated on asset and feature development. ✔️ Created workflows, wireframes, and conducted usability testing.

✔️ Maintained design system for multiple products. ✔️ Redesigned and prototyped internal tools. ✔️ Collaborated with LG, Philips, Google, and Fitbit on promotional pages. ✔️ Redesigned insurance customers' onboarding form.

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