Design Evenings LDN: Designing Fast, Smart, and Built to Last
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Design Evenings LDN:Designing Fast, Smart, and Built to Last
We hosted an evening with Alp Turgut, Founding Product Designer of Runna, who shared his Startup Booster Methodology, a principle-led design framework shaped by a decade of building early-stage ventures and high-growth startups, and revealed how thoughtful design became a powerful growth engine, accelerating product–market fit and laying the foundation for scale.
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"Solve the behaviour, not the interface. Solve the journey, not the screen. Sometimes the best solution is removing a step. Not adding a feature."
- Alp Turgut, Founding Product Designer of Runna
Alp Turgut
Founding Product Designer
Alp Turgut is an award-winning digital product designer with 10+ years of experience shaping best-in-class digital experiences for global brands such as Nike, Atlassian, Salesforce, Rolls-Royce, Zalando, New Look, Mercedes, O2, and high-growth startups like Runna, Buzzbike, and many more.
He specialises in structured information architecture, premium user experience, and timeless interface design, with a proven track record of delivering elegant, high-performing products across mobile, web, and in-store platforms.
Alp was the Founding Product Designer of Runna, a leading running and fitness app that won “App of the Year” by Apple and has reached hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. His product work at Runna played a pivotal role in driving growth, retention, and a distinct brand identity in a highly competitive fitness-tech space.
With a strong focus on user research, design systems, and emerging technologies, Alp has crafted products that have scaled to millions of users globally, consistently balancing business goals with user needs.
He also brings a unique “Startup Booster” methodology, a lean, principle-driven design process tailored to early-stage ventures. This approach helps startups achieve traction, conversion, and investment-readiness within a short time frame.
Join Lyft product leaders Béatrice Bunieski and Kristen Shi for an inside look at how Lyft designs, prioritizes, and measures products that create lasting value for riders.
Join Lenny Laurier, Director of Product Design at Intuit, for an inside look at building design teams that thrive across startups and enterprise organizations.
6:00 PM
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7:30 PM EST
482 Front St W, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON
$25
Lenny Laurier
Director of Design
Discussion Topics:
Scaling Design Teams for Impact
Balancing User Experience, Platform and AI
Cross‑Functional Collaboration and Strategic Leadership
Join us in Vancouver to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the way organizations solve diverse and complex problems: supporting ideation, speeding up product development, and streamlining business operations.
Join us in Vancouver to discuss how Product Designers are shaping the world’s most innovative digital products by combining creativity, research, and technical skills to solve real user problems.
Join Mareike Carolin Keller, Product Designer at Spotify, for an inside look of her experience evolving the platform from a music app into a multi-format destination for audio storytelling at Spotify.
Join Natalie Novak, Vice President of Product Strategy & Service Design at JPMorganChase, for a deep dive into how futures thinking is transforming the way products are imagined, built, and scaled.
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM EST
136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
$45
Natalie Novak
Futurist and Product Leader
Discussion Topics:
Futures & Foresight: The Method Behind the Mindset
The Future of Payments: A Trend Report Live
Reverse Engineering Foresight: How the Report Was Made
Join us in London to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the way organizations solve diverse and complex problems: supporting ideation, speeding up product development, and streamlining business operations.
Join us in London to discuss how Product Designers are shaping the world’s most innovative digital products by combining creativity, research, and technical skills to solve real user problems.
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