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Platform Enablement Over Ticket Factory
True architectural leverage decouples engineering throughput from design headcount through deterministic floorplan contracts.
Murat Çetin
Lead Design Systems Architect at Agito
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Infrastructure Before Screens
Token compilers, contract boundaries, and layout invariants must be locked in code before a single vector is drawn in Figma.
03
Design for the Cockpit, Not the Storefront
Enterprise ergonomics require strict tabular density, fixed integer geometry, and 100vh canvas containment for 8-hour operators.
04
Make the Wrong Thing Impossible to Build
A design system is a compile-time control system. Its business value is measured strictly in failure modes permanently removed from runtime.
05
Conway’s Law & Cross-Squad Governance
UX debt across agile squads is cultural. Align divergent teams through joint Definition of Ready gates and shared contract invariants.
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Cognitive Ergonomics & Irreversible Trust
Deliberate friction reduces anxiety in high-stakes financial operations. Density and cognitive friction eliminate irreversible transactional error.
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Regulated Architecture & Locale Safety
Compliance is an engineering invariant. Enforce PII data masking, locale-aware casing, and immutable audit timestamps at token level.
01. Scaling Design Architecture Across 14 Enterprise Products Without the Bottleneck
Brooks’s Law in UX: How canonical floorplans and PO readiness gates decouple engineering throughput from design headcount.
Published Jan 2026 · 4 min read
02. Why Enterprise Figma Kits Fail in Production (And the Bridge to Real Code)
Why static component stickers cause engineering debt, and how W3C DTCG token compilers terminated a $180k/yr agency retainer.
Published Jan 2026 · 4 min read
03. Designing for the 8-Hour Operator: Tables, Density, and Zero-Scroll Layouts
Ocular ergonomics and subpixel physics: 100vh canvas locking, 38px cell integer box-model, and tabular scanning velocity.
Published Feb 2026 · 4 min read
04. A Design System is Not a UI Kit: Building Systems That Enforce Their Own Rules
Control engineering in UI: binary font weights (400/600), hard-deny invariants, and underwriting authority gating.
Published Feb 2026 · 4 min read
05. The Fragility of Agile: Cultural and Linguistic Roots of UX Disintegration
Conway’s Law and multi-squad friction: how we unified 5 divergent squads across 1.5M MAU at Allianz Türkiye.
Published Mar 2026 · 4 min read
06. Cognitive Ergonomics & Irreversible Trust: Intentional Friction in High-Consequence Systems
Cognitive psychology and trust ergonomics: why frictionless flows trigger anxiety in irreversible $24M financial transfers.
Published Mar 2026 · 4 min read
07. Regulated Architecture: Designing for MASAK, KVKK, and Multi-Locale Runtimes
Legal certainty at component level: PII masking contracts, Turkish dotted-i casing traps, and Swiss medical privacy.
Published Apr 2026 · 4 min readI design systems for software where mistakes are expensive. Rooted in usability research and human factors rather than visual art, I build precision instruments engineered for transactional safety and operational velocity.
Today, I lead Design Systems at Agito as the sole designer governing interaction patterns, component behaviors, and design system standards for 14+ core insurance products and 250+ engineers.
My work bridges large-scale consumer ecosystems and dense back-office engines. Previously, I led product design across 5 agile squads for Allianz Türkiye's B2C ecosystem (1.5M MAU and $24M+ in written premium), architected multi-tenant commercial underwriting engines for Berkshire Hathaway’s Three Insurance at Radity in Zurich, and directed payment discovery for eLogo across 20+ industries.
I hold a Master of Arts in Art & Design from Yaşar University, where my research evaluated deliberate friction and trust dynamics in high-stakes transactions. That background defines how I build: treating software as a fault-tolerant control system.