Arda Karaçizmeli
Principal Product Designer, AI at Shopify
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolArda Karaçizmeli is a Principal Product Designer focused on AI and systems thinking, currently leading design at Shopify after a progressive design leadership career at Booking.com. With about a decade in product and design systems roles, he blends service design, scalable design foundations, and hands-on UX practice to shape complex product experiences. Based in Amsterdam, he’s known for translating large-scale system requirements into coherent, reusable design patterns that accelerate cross-functional delivery. His background in communication design and steady progression from graduate UX designer to principal roles suggests a pragmatic, craft-driven approach to design leadership that values both detail and strategy.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication Design at Bahcesehir UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Özel Saint Benoît Fransız Lisesi / Lycée Français Saint Benoît
Turkish, English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
figma-plugin10
typescript10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
react10
shopify10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ardakaracizmeli/design-system-checklist
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
An open-source checklist to help you plan, build and grow your design system.
Contributions:11 commits, 28 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 5 months
checklistreactplandesign-systemdesign-systems
ardakaracizmeli/ipados-cursor-react
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
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