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About

I give shape to other people's problems, and their solutions.

Born in Türkiye in 1997, now living in Hamburg. I studied Industrial Product Design, and ever since I was little, visual tools have been the way I express what I feel. My studies taught me to point those tools outward too: to understand other people.

Rabia holding her camera
Illustration — In Bloom
Illustration — Little Mermaid
Illustration — Goose
01 — Illustration

I paid my own way by drawing.

Throughout university I earned my own income by drawing and selling digital illustrations. In my final two years I discovered user experience design, and I kept building on it through internships and work ever since.

02 — Food photography

I learned to make food look like itself.

I trained as a food photographer. For a while I shot restaurant dishes and designed printed menus, and that work stayed with me.

Later it became the reason one of our products can generate food images for the owners who could never afford a photographer.

Food photography — avocado & feta on crispbread
Food photography — white asparagus soup
03 — Digitable

In Hamburg, we build the products.

My software-developer husband and I founded Digitable. Together we build products for the hospitality industry and B2B clients; a restaurant POS, a QR menu platform, and more. Along the way my role grew: beyond the experience and the interface, I learned to carry a design into working product, and to own it.

“I decide what a product should, and shouldn't, do.”
Off the clock

These days, you'll find me —

Watercolour sketchbook, en plein air
Still illustrating
the thing I never stopped doing
Out with the camera
Exploring with my camera
reading a new city, frame by frame
At the pottery wheel
Throwing pottery
making with my hands, off-screen
Handwritten German sign on a garden bench
Working on my languages
one more, always