Most of the data I work with stands for money that was meant to reach someone. Designing it means choosing what gets shown, to whom, and what stays out of frame which is never only a design decision.

How I work

The brief usually arrives as a data problem. It is usually also a question of who gets to see what, and who was in the room when that got decided. I work end-to-end, from research and facilitation through interaction design and systems. The part that matters most to me is if the people a product is built for actually shaped it, or just received it.

How I got here

I trained as an industrial designer in İzmir, spent an Erasmus year at IADE in Lisbon working on game design, and finished with a product-service-system design master's in Milan, where I've stayed. Designing physical things taught me to think in systems before I'd touched a screen. Moving to digital products only changed the material.

Outside work

I volunteer with a mutual aid network in Milan; organised by and for the community, it is grassroots and build around the principles of solidarity. It runs on a belief I bring to design too: that people should help shape the things built for them. I'm also learning Italian, slowly.

Aylin Paçacı © 1998 — 2026. All wrongs reserved.

Aylin Paçacı © 1998 — 2026. All wrongs reserved.

Aylin Paçacı © 1998 — 2026. All wrongs reserved.