Umut Durgut

Feb 2026 to present · Ankara

• Built end-to-end, AI-first design systems with agents and plugins. BuildOS, the one Vizio AI designs and builds client products from, has 10+ themes, multiplatform UX laws, a PRD-to-UX pipeline and a marketing and growth kit for every project.
• Repositioned the company under three studios with the team and designed all of it as one brand system, Renaissance, across Vizio.ai, stationery, templates and the design system the company's AI tools use.
• Designed client products on BuildOS, from the PRD to launch.

Feb 2025 to Feb 2026 · San Francisco, remote

• Founding designer of a compliance and vendor-risk platform, from user research to the design system.
• Built the brand and the marketing website, and designed the whitepapers, reports, decks and social content around them.

Sep 2023 to Sep 2024 · Ankara

• Founding designer of Sales Engine, a web app for solar installers covering CRM, inventory, team workload and 3D rooftop design. Preparing a proposal went from one or two days to 10 to 15 minutes.
• Refreshed the solarVis brand and designed the website and its lead-generation flow.

Mar 2022 to Sep 2023 · Istanbul

• Led brand, campaign and social work for the studio's client brands.
• Designed KNTLGY's own parametric prints, NFTs and digital work, and its marketing campaigns and photoshoots.

2021 to present

• Designed multiplatform products from scratch for Toyota, Waves-on-Chain, Cüzdan Cepte and FootBond, and redesigned Lidyana and Mintgrams.
• Designed e-commerce sites, apps and Shopify stores for the clients of be4startup, an agency.
• Designed more than ten brand identities, and the identity of Ancient Futures, an exhibition by xtopia and Meta.