Design engineering
I design in the material. Figma is for thinking; code is for proving. The component I design is the component that ships.
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Volkan Kantar
Design Engineer & Product Designer
From a blank page to a working product.
Selected work
Seven projects, each one built.
Each case leads with platform, my role and the outcome. Open any one.
How I build
Design in the material.
Figma is for thinking; code is for proving. All three demos below are live.
AI-forward design thinking
Agents are part of my team. I design harnesses where AI builds variants and a second agent checks them against the design system and brand, so I spend my time on judgement, not pixels.
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Prototype, don’t present
Stakeholders react to what they can touch. I iterate fast into real product demos, so decisions get made on behavior, not static screens. Try both.
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About
I’m a designer who builds. I design the product, then make it work in code, so nobody has to judge a static screen.
Design engineer. I take a product from information architecture to interaction to working code, so teams decide by using the thing. I ship real software too: web games with 350K+ plays and a production AI dashboard. I keep choosing 0-to-1 work: a new product at Level, an early audit for Jammy, and my own studio.
AI-forward. I build agent harnesses and work with agentic design systems. One harness let agents create EdTech game prototypes and check them against design-system and brand guidance, making ideas tangible for leadership feedback. Day to day I work in Figma, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and I judge the result in the running build.
Product depth. At Microsoft I led UX for navigation, discovery, accessibility and monetization on Solitaire Collection, played by tens of millions. In 2026 at Level I took a new learning product from first architecture to production handoff: the reading interactions, the parent portal and the reward systems.
Contact
Say hello.
I’m looking for a design engineer, creative technologist or UX engineer role, or a game UX lead role: remote, in Austin, or in the SF Bay Area. Product design roles where prototyping in code is the job are welcome too. Happy to walk you through any case live.