# Salih Berk Dincer > Part of a crew that helps other teams build beautiful products Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/salih I am a designer and engineer from Istanbul who fuses design, media, and science to create experimental atmospheres to redefine the interaction between humans, the environment, and machines. Pointing out daily life issues and finding design solutions for them is the way I am dedicated to walk. Art can entertain, raise awareness, shock, and provoke an emotional response; science improves these effects and provides you a ground full of inspiration. Thus far, all of my projects, from designing a non-intrusive and aesthetic water bottle to encourage people to drink more water to a fashionable wearable to prevent wrist injuries, have the same motivation behind them; impact on people’s daily lives. The world we live in faces many problems, from global warming to pandemics, educational inequities, informational insecurity, among many others. These problems are hard to solve precisely because the traditional solutions we have implemented until now have not been sufficient. So we all need a hyper boost of creativity to solve these problems. Our times call for a new kind of solution, one that is human-centered, more interactive, less designed for static existence like hanging on walls but more prone for dynamic interaction and powered by technology. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Zeplin Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Design Intern @ Zeplin Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### User Experience Designer @ Vagon Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote Developing design solutions and user flows for the company’s web application and website. Designing the application interface and landing pages according to the user experience researches and market trends. Ensuring smooth implementation of design plans by working closely with developers and product teams. ### Research Assistant @ KUAR: Koç University- Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 Contributing to projects about design and technological implementations. Designing circuits, interactive systems for product prototypes. Projects Involved: Designing a Smart Bottle for Elderly People, Enhanced Storytelling with Interactive Wooden Blocks, Designing an Arm-Worn Device and an interactive dice that will enhance TTRPG experience (WEARPG), a wearable sports glove designed to assess the pressure applied during exercise (GLOWE) Publication: Gül Kaner, Hüseyin Uğur Gen , Salih Berk Dincer, Deniz Erdoğan, and Aykut Coşkun. 2018. GROW: A Smart Bottle that Uses its Surface as an Ambient Display to Motivate Daily Water Intake. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW077, 6 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188521 ### UI Designer @ Commencis Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Turkey ### UI/UX Designer Intern @ Bundle News Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | İstanbul, Türkiye ### Robotics Design and Engineering @ LEGO Education Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Egypt Taught underprivileged children to robotics programming. Developed projects for the Lego FLL competition with kids. ### Technical Specialist @ Apple Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ## Education ### Master's degree in Design University of California, Berkeley Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Media and Visual Arts Koç University Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineer Koç University Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor's degree in Design and Applied Arts York University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technical University of Munich Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/salihberkdincer - Portfolio: https://www.berkdincer.me - Portfolio: https://www.spectrumal.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/salih JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/salih/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30