Cemre Güngör

I am currently designing the user interface of Betaville, a collobrative urban planning/public art project. The project is led by Carl Skelton, director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center. The most interestring stuff I've ever worked on!

A viral application that we did for fun in 5 days. Point was to gather as many users possible for a cause in limited time (like the "I bet there are 1 million people" groups). It evolved to something else and in the end went from 0 to 300k users in 3 weeks. We pulled the plug at the end of summer.

I designed the user interface of the game creator part of the RealmCrash project, where players in different games (universities) could interact with each other. It involved a lot of user testing as we tried to walk everyday users through Facebook's developer interface. We stopped development after the academic year.

RealmCrash is a social MMORPG game platform that we developed as our senior year project in METU. It supported multiple realms and multiple games, and I created a very flexible OO-CSS structure (4 layers of CSS :) to accomodate different types of games: we implemented a sci-fi game, a cookie game and user-created university themed games on the platform.

My mother has a Wordpress blog integrated with Flickr, where she showcases her artwork and other things going on at her studio (she's been dubbed the "quilting super star of Turkey" :)). Her blog started to look old so we came up with a new design.

I planned, programmed (both backend and frontend) and designed the UI of the product SWF Pack during my summer internship in Kuneri. It is an innovative web application to convert Flash files into mobile applications for Nokia NFL, Symbian and Pocket PC platforms.

I created home page designs for SpeedDate.com for A/B testing. The winner increased conversions by 50%.

During the summer term 2006 in METU, I took a course about Distance Education and the final project of the course involved creating a Learning Management System. I took care of the UI design of the site and some usability adjustments.

"Basics of Hypermedia" is a course lectured in Tampere Tech each year, and I happened to take it when I was there. They have a competition to redesign the course blog every year. I won 2006's competition with 19 votes, and no other project has received as many votes since :)

Mobile Joomla! is a component to Joomla!, the content management system. I created a web site on behalf of Kuneri, which would present Mobile Joomla! to the public and be the basis of theme/plugin distribution. The design was implemented as a Joomla template.

The guys behind MutasIST, an online real estate management system asked me to create designs for pages where construction projects are presented.

During my Erasmus year in Tampere I participated in an improv theatre group called Nääspeksi (imagine improving in a language you've learned for only one year!). They had an ongoing project of re-organizing and re-designing their web page (implemented on top of pmwiki). I created the visual style for the public-facing site and their intranet.

I teamed up with two other Finnish students to create a blog system for the course "Introduction to Hypermedia". I created the visual layout of the site and wrote the XHTML/CSS.