Aylin is a PhD candidate in Design at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, where she also completed her MSc in Interaction Design. She holds a BA in Radio, TV and Cinema from Istanbul University. She has worked in UX since 2016, leading user research, usability testing and prototyping for web and mobile products, most recently as a Senior UX Designer and Researcher on AI-powered products. Her research focuses on adaptive systems and how they can be designed to explain their behaviour to users. Using a Research through Design approach, she examines the role of interpretability in users’ understanding, trust and agency.