Arda AydarProduct Designer

I’m a product designer in Ankara, working on social and video apps used by tens of millions of people.

After five years across product studios and one large app company, I care about the system behind the screens as much as the screens themselves — components, type, motion and the rules that keep four products speaking the same language.

Selected Work

Waplog 90M+ people

A dating and video chat app in 19 languages. I work on the discovery, matching and video calling flows, and on the design system that keeps a product this large consistent as it changes.

Waplog

Gaze live video

Pairs people for live video chat and turns those first moments into friendships. My work covers matching, the in‑call interface and the moderation surfaces behind it.

Gaze

DramaDash short drama

Vertical short‑drama streaming: episode discovery, the player and the unlock economy, designed to keep a two‑minute episode feeling effortless.

DramaDash

Novelty short fiction

A reading app for serialised short fiction — library, reader and the typography that has to stay comfortable for hours.

Novelty

Experiences

VLMedia 4 products

Product Designer · Today / Ankara

An Ankara studio building social, video and entertainment apps for a global audience. I design across four products at once and own the shared system that holds them together.

VLMedia

GFDS spatial & XR

Product Designer · 2022 – 2023 / Ankara

A design and technology studio working on immersive products. A year spent on interfaces that have no edges: depth, gaze and hand input instead of taps.

GFDS

Nextlua 3 apps in 12 months

Product Designer · 2021 – 2022 / Ankara

A product studio with small teams and short cycles — research to handoff on one desk. Where I built my first design system end to end.

Nextlua

Education

MSc, Interior Architecture

2018 – 2021 / Çankaya University

BA, Interior Architecture

2014 – 2018 / Çankaya University

Skills

UI Design
Design Systems
Prototyping
Motion
Figma & Adobe
User Research
Mobile UX

Q&AAnswers for your Questions.

How do I work?^1/3

I start from the system, not the screen: components, type scale, motion rules, then the flows that use them. Day to day that means quick prototypes over long documents, decisions written down where the team can see them, and a design file that engineers can read without a meeting.

Available for freelance?^2/3

Selectively, alongside my work at VLMedia — product design, design systems and interface audits. The fastest way to find out is a short call.

What do you use?^3/3

Figma for design and prototyping, Adobe for the pixel work, After Effects and Rive for motion, and plain HTML and CSS when a prototype has to feel like the real thing. Handoff lives in Figma with tokens the team can pull straight into code.