# meriç dağlı

> Design at Shield AI · Previously at LinkedIn

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/meri

Product designer focused on designing for trust to improve the adoption of technologies. Has multi-disciplinary experience in the fields of human-computer interaction, industrial design, and visual communication design.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Shield AI
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Design Lead on Hivemind Forge (0→1) and a contributor to Special Projects in the Office of the CTO. At Shield AI, I design experiences that build human–AI collaboration and trust across complex human-machine teaming and vehicle autonomy through hands-on research, design, and rapid prototyping.

Forge is the Hivemind SDK’s workbench for autonomy development. It supports scenario and mission design, high-volume simulation, test orchestration, data management, analysis/dashboards, and machine learning, usable by both technical and non-technical users via CLI, GUI, and GenAI interfaces.

Special Projects (SP) at Shield AI is a small, senior team within the CTO’s office that embeds temporarily into teams across the company to guide key technical decisions and ensure technology work stays aligned with the CTO’s strategic vision.

April 2025 - Present: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
September 2024 - March 2025: San Diego, CA

### Staff Product Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Consumer Growth:
Notifications: Helped world's professionals advance their interactions with their networks through valuable alerts and engagement loops across the LinkedIn ecosystem at scale.
Network Growth: Supported efforts that help professionals build and nurture their networks.

### Senior Product Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Consumer Growth: Notifications

### Senior Product Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Events

### User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
LinkedIn Gruplar, LinkedIn Etkinlikler

### User Experience Designer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
LinkedIn Gruplar

### Interaction Designer @ IRL Labs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
SimpleVR: A VR authoring tool. Shipped proof-of-concept web editor and Android VR viewer.
Dranimate: A tool for animating any 2D image via gestures and digital puppetry. Given a demo at Google SPAN Pittsburgh 2017.

### Interaction Design Intern @ Carbon Health
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Helped to redesign the Carbon clinic experience by delivering service blueprints, multi-device user flows, and prototypes.

### User Experience Researcher (Co-Op) @ Eczacıbaşı Topluluğu
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ankara, Turkey
Conducted an evaluative lab study (n=20) that investigated the relationship of trust and long-term adoption of a smart bidet (ask me about it :]) part of METU Technopolis Teknotez Co-Op Program.

### Communication Designer (Research Assistant) @ Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Ankara, Turkey
Designed visual artifacts including print&digital campaigns, merchandising, and wayfinding as part of university’s 3-person full-time in-house design team.

### Product Designer @ Esetron
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Ankara, Turkey
Iterated product concepts, created marketing visuals, and wireframed an Android app for a smart parking navigation system.

### Design Intern @ Demirden Design
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Istanbul, Turkey
Involved in a product design revision and designed an outdoor display stand concept.

### Design Intern @ Karel
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Ankara, Turkey
Facilitated a usability evaluation of an existing web-based PBX admin panel and presented the results by a hard coded HTML&CSS mockup to the engineering team. 

Pitched, planned, and completed a studio photoshoot session for various profucts.

### Manufacturing Intern @ Tepe Home
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Usability Intern @ METU BILTIR UTEST - Product Usability Testing Unit
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Ankara, Turkey


## Education
### Master’s in Interaction Design
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor's in Industrial Design
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

### Exchange in Product Design
Kunsthochschule Kassel

### High School Diploma in Mathematics and Science
Gazi Anatolian High School

### TED Ankara Koleji


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mericda
- Portfolio: http://www.mericdagli.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13