Kerem Suer is an interdisciplinary designer with over a decade of experience applying design principles to digital and physical products.
Portrait, January 2014
01. Life 1983
Before moving to the Bay Area in 2006, Kerem has lived in a number of places including Istanbul, where his curious foundation was laid. Sulphur, Oklahoma— where he graduated high school. Maryville, Missouri— where he received his Bachelor's degree. Kerem studied Interactive Digital Media, an interdisciplinary degree with an integrated curriculum from the departments of computer science, mass communication and art. After experimenting with computer science, photography and print, Kerem steered his efforts and time towards interaction design in 2002. After moving to the Bay Area in 2006, Istanbul born designer began his career with humble projects at iWin, a social gaming company. After his departure from iWin, Kerem Suer started working at Fitbit, an innovative San Francisco start-up in it's early days, creating and defining a visual language, forming interaction design patterns across web, mobile , desktop and sensor-based hardware devices. In 2011, he left Fitbit to start his small design studio where he worked with great teams such as MyFitnessPal, HealthTab, Lovely, Pinterest, Dropbox, and One Kings Lane. Over the last 2 years, Kerem has been working with Lovely redefining apartment search. He had led the design efforts designing an iOS app from inception, and was a core part of the team redesigning the web platform. Lovely recently got acquired by Rentpath for $13mm. San Francisco based designer recently joined the Omada Health team to help rethink healthcare delivery. He's currently responsible helping design a system that consists of web interfaces for participants and health coaches, mobile applications, email communications flows, and phase kits.
“We, designers, are building a universal language that everyone can understand in the future.”
Kerem Suer
SuperConf Miami, 201302. Career
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Operator
Currently
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Omada Health
2014 — 2015
I led a team of 8 talented cross-discipline designers who focused on areas such as user interface design, product design, illustration, videography, animation and motion. When these forces join, we were suddenly able to design a wide array of tools. I was responsible for creating a collaborative platform for designers to not only craft digital and physical products, but grow as designers and articulate solutions as well as iterating on them. I worked on defining and refining the design process, coached, mentored and worked with a design team to form a design culture within the organization. Asides the leadership role, I focused mainly on web and mobile user interface design, participated in early concept development and design ideation. Incorporate usability and field research findings into the product design.
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Dropbox
2014
I was contracted to work on the Mailbox Android application. Given the unique interaction patterns of the Mailbox iOS app, I worked closely with the Android and iOS engineers to make sure we stayed true to the Android platform while porting the unique interactions.
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MyFitnessPal
2014
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LiveLovely
2012 - 2014
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Fitbit
2010 — 2012
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03. Highlights
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AIGA PGH 365 Pittsburgh
Competition Judge
Mar 2014 -
Offscreen Magazine
Print Publication
2013 -
Fast Co. Design
Online Article
Sep 2012 -
IdN Magazine
Full-spread feature, Issue v19n6
2013 -
Lightning Talk at Yahoo
Talk
Apr 2014 -
Working Not Working
Interview
Dec 2013 -
SuperConf Miami
Talk
Sep 2013 -
Industry
Interview
2009 – 2011 -
Industry Radio Show
Casual Podcast About Technology
2009 – 2011 -
The East Wing Show
Podcast Interview, #36 Episode
2009 – 2011 -
Happy Monday
Podcast Interview, Episode 40
2009 – 2011 -
Future of UI at Asana HQ
Townhall Panel
2009 – 2011
Social Channels