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I’m RızaRıza Yılmaz

I design the online storefronts of small businesses. From Suriçi, on my own, with no one in between.

LOCATION
Suriçi, Istanbul
EXPERIENCE
5+ years
FOCUS
Sites · Stores · Brands
LANGUAGES
Türkçe · English
STORY

I’ve been designing digital products for more than five years, from fintech apps to e-commerce stores. I was part of founding a Webflow and Shopify agency.

Today I work on my own. The person who designs your site is the one who builds it and looks after it once it’s live. My longest collaboration has been running for a year and a half.

How I work

  1. 01Mobile first, then speed.Most visitors come from a phone. I make every decision on the small screen first; decoration comes last.
  2. 02No one in between.No account manager, no middleman, no “I’ll pass it on to the team”. The person doing the work answers your question.
  3. 03I use what’s already there.I don’t rebuild what the platform already does. Less code, fewer breakdowns, less upkeep.
  4. 04Scope is written down.What’s included, how many revision rounds, what isn’t: all on paper from day one. No surprises.

From Suriçi

Washing lines, the tram, Balat’s coloured doors. Most of the drawings on this site come from here.

[PHOTO · SURİÇİ]
[PHOTO · BALAT]
[PHOTO · TRAM]

On my desk

  • Figma
  • Shopify
  • Astro
  • Webflow
  • GSAP
  • Cloudflare
  • Claude

I don’t hide the AI: I use Claude when I code. It speeds things up; the decisions, the design and the responsibility stay with me.

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