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Melisa Cakiroglu

ABOUT

The designer behind the work

Melisa Cakiroglu
Melisa Cakiroglu - New York
"I believe the best design is never noticed; it just makes the experience feel obvious."
I’m a multidisciplinary Product and UX Designer with a Master’s in UX/UI Design from Jefferson University and five years of experience helping companies turn complex problems into clear, human-centered digital experiences. My work spans mobile apps, web platforms, and design systems, with a focus on creating thoughtful experiences that connect user needs, business goals, and scalable systems.
I’m drawn to projects where design directly shapes a product’s core proposition—where understanding the details, the users, and the bigger picture leads to meaningful, lasting impact.

Work Experience

June 2025 - Present

Chop Dawg

Sr. Product Designer

  • Lead 8 full cycle products overseeing UX strategy, design system implementation, and delivery.
     

  • Designed user-centered digital products across wellness and fitness, AI-powered platforms, HR Tech SaaS, service design, and gamified learning and gaming experiences.
     

  • Designed and implemented Chops Dawg's development delivery system, streamlining design-to-development handoff and improving team efficiency.
     

  • Led design stand-up meetings, mentoring new team members and fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and design consistency.

Product Designer

  • Lead 5 full cycle products overseeing UX strategy, design system implementation, and delivery.
     

  • Healthy Mind Map (Mental Health Industry): Led design of a three-sided ecosystem (consumer, provider, admin), successfully launched and iterated through v1.1 with a unified design system.
     

  • Pearson Fuels E85 (Energy Industry): Designed a consumer mobile app, signage, website, and admin workflows to scale rewards and content management. Presented to chairman of PF, worked with a focus group for branding.
     

  • CollabMind (Interior Design): Designed tablet and mobile collaboration experiences for architects, interior architects, clients and contractors, brand identity, and an admin portal.

ChaiOne

UX/UI Design Intern

  • UX Audit (LINQ): Delivered expert design review for the product to the owner that converted to a project later.

    SkyEye (satellite tasking app): Re-architected flows & redesigned UI from research & usability tests.

June 2023 - June 2025

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023

Share Food Program

UX/UI Designer

  • Ran user research & stakeholder interviews to align goals and prioritize jobs-to-be-done.
     

  • Rebuilt IA & content strategy for simpler navigation and clearer donation/volunteering paths.
     

  • Produced high-fi flows & screens; integrated volunteering within the website; improved task success in tests. (Case study)

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

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