Pride Design Lab
Social-Impact Innovation
Designing and developing inclusive digital products and global applications that solve meaningful human and social challenges.
Welcome to my digital universe
Can Kabilay
Berlin, Germany · Human Factors · Product & UX
Designing human-centered systems for tomorrow.
I turn meaningful problems into clear digital products, research concepts, and practical prototypes—combining Human Factors, UX, technology, and responsible innovation.
Choose your path
What brings you here today?
Work
Pride Design Lab, Green Dot Diaries & Human-Centered Innovation
Social-impact product design, human factors, and responsible technology in action.
Green Dot Diaries
Living Digital Storytelling
Exploring a real-time diary format where reflection, place, progress, and personal growth become an evolving digital reading experience.
Human Factors
Cognitive Load in UX
Research insights on optimizing interfaces for cognitive efficiency and ethical user experiences.
Org Psychology
Ethical Team Dynamics
How psychological safety and ethical frameworks drive responsible innovation and creative problem-solving.
Expertise
Expertise
Design Thinking
User-centered methodologies for innovative solutions.
Expertise
Human Factors
Optimizing systems for human performance and safety.
Expertise
Organizational Psychology
Understanding workplace behavior and team dynamics.
Expertise
Product Ideation
From concept to prototype development.
Expertise
Prototyping
Rapid testing and iteration towards solutions.
Expertise
UX Research & Design
Research-led product and interface design grounded in user needs.
Expertise
Cognitive Science & Psychology
Applying perception, cognition, behavior, and decision-making insights to products and work systems.
Expertise
Usability Engineering
Evaluating and improving effectiveness, efficiency, accessibility, and ease of use.
Expertise
Human-AI Team Collaboration
Designing clearer collaboration, oversight, trust, and decision support between people and AI-enabled systems.
Expertise
Ethics by Design
Embedding responsible choices, transparency, and human values throughout product development.
Expertise
Project Leadership
Structuring interdisciplinary projects from opportunity framing to delivery and measurable outcomes.
Research
Research for Human and Social Impact
Exploring how human factors, inclusive design, and technology can create useful global solutions.
Research
Key Topics
- Human-centered technology for global social impact
- Digital storytelling, reflection, and new forms of online authorship
- Inclusive digital products for underserved communities
- Ethical frameworks in digital product development
- Cognitive load, trust, and accessibility in interfaces
- Human-AI collaboration through responsible design
Open for Industrial PhD collaboration
Human-centered AI, trust, knowledge gaps, and future work.
I am open to an industry-sponsored PhD with a university and company partner. My preferred direction combines Human Factors, HCI, organizational psychology, and real-world AI adoption research that can become a useful product or intervention.
University supervision + industry access
Empirical HCI / Human Factors research
Prototype and measurable workplace impact
International and interdisciplinary collaboration
Venture Ideas
Selected Concepts & Human Use Cases
Four high-potential ideas presented at a useful level without publishing the core intellectual property.
These are selected directions from a broader innovation portfolio. Each preview explains the human problem, a realistic use case, and the intended value. Sensitive mechanics, research methods, business logic, and technical architecture are intentionally withheld until a trusted conversation.
Responsible disclosure
Concept previews are exploratory and do not represent a public securities offer, finished product, or promise of returns.
Concept previews are exploratory and do not represent a public securities offer, finished product, or promise of returns.
01
Selected venture concept · Research concept
Collective Innovation Engine
Ideas → validation → expert teams → responsible capital
A platform connecting people with meaningful ideas, communities that validate demand, specialists who can build, and investors looking for evidence-backed opportunities.
View use case
Challenge
High-potential ideas often disappear because creators lack expert access, credible demand signals, and a path to early funding.
Example use case
A person proposes an accessibility solution for public transport. Potential users validate the need, verified experts form a delivery team, and an investor reviews traction before opening due diligence.
Human value
Shortens the distance between lived problems, specialist knowledge, market evidence, and responsible investment.
Open toResearch partners · Prototype funding · Ethical investment
High-level preview: Core matching, validation scoring, governance, and revenue logic are intentionally not disclosed.
02
Selected venture concept · Service concept
CreativeLABS Network
Book spaces, facilitators, and practical learning sessions
A B2B platform that turns underused company and community spaces into bookable labs for AI, presentation, design, creative work, and team development.
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Challenge
Organizations have rooms and knowledge, but employees and external facilitators struggle to discover, combine, and book them for focused learning experiences.
Example use case
A team books a 60-minute AI prototyping session in an available company lab. A verified facilitator hosts it, attendees join by QR code, and the organization receives a compact outcome report.
Human value
Makes practical learning easier to access while helping organizations activate unused space, internal expertise, and external talent.
Open toPilot companies · Venue partners · Pre-seed interest
High-level preview: Pricing architecture, utilization model, verification logic, and expansion strategy remain confidential.
03
Selected venture concept · Behavior-design concept
Real-Life Quest Network
Small meaningful actions supported by people, place, and progress
A human-centered network that turns personal development, learning, wellbeing, and social contribution into achievable real-world missions.
View use case
Challenge
People often know what could improve their lives but lose momentum because goals feel abstract, lonely, or too large.
Example use case
A user chooses a seven-day confidence mission for public speaking. The app breaks it into safe micro-actions, offers optional peer support, and reflects progress without pressure or competitive ranking.
Human value
Transforms intention into manageable action through supportive structure, social accountability, and visible progress.
Open toBehavioral research · Prototype partners · Impact funding
High-level preview: Personalization, safeguarding, progression, and community mechanics are intentionally withheld.
04
Selected venture concept · Industrial PhD direction
Human-Centered AI Adoption Lab
Reveal knowledge gaps before AI confidence becomes risk
A research-led workplace tool for understanding trust, knowledge illusion, cognitive workload, and human oversight in AI-supported decisions.
View use case
Challenge
Teams may adopt AI quickly without seeing where employees over-trust outputs, misunderstand limitations, or need clearer human responsibility.
Example use case
An engineering team maps an AI-supported workflow. Employees indicate confidence and reasoning, while the system highlights potential knowledge gaps and recommends targeted learning or human review points.
Human value
Supports safer AI adoption by making invisible uncertainty, workload, and responsibility boundaries easier to discuss and improve.
Open toIndustrial PhD host · Research supervision · Industry pilot
High-level preview: Measurement framework, intervention logic, research design, and product architecture remain confidential.
Investor Interest
Start a focused, private conversation.
Investors, innovation teams, accelerators, and strategic partners can submit a non-binding indication of interest. The amount and proposed equity are conversation starters only.
01 · Human value first
Clear user need before scale.
Clear user need before scale.
02 · Evidence before hype
Research, prototypes, and measurable signals.
Research, prototypes, and measurable signals.
03 · Responsible growth
Ethics, accessibility, and long-term trust.
Ethics, accessibility, and long-term trust.
Portfolio
Founded Projects & Prototypes
Student innovation, social-impact applications, digital storytelling, human factors, and emerging technology.
Founder · Student Innovation Lab
Pride Design Lab
A student innovation and design lab creating inclusive, human-centered digital products and global social-impact applications.
We turn meaningful social challenges into useful, accessible, and scalable digital experiences for people around the world.
Design Lab Focus
- Inclusive and human-centered social applications.
- Global ideas developed into useful digital prototypes.
- UX research, product strategy, design, and development.
Creator & Author · Living Digital Diary
Green Dot Diaries
A living digital diary and storytelling experiment that turns everyday thoughts, places, and personal progress into an evolving public narrative.
The project explores a more human way of publishing online: present, reflective, transparent, and shaped chapter by chapter as life happens.
Storytelling Concept
- Real-time and chapter-based reflective writing.
- A reading experience shaped by place, memory, and progress.
- Creative technology used to make publishing feel more alive.
University Innovation Project
Rent‑Mellow Platform
A human-centered travel concept for renting premium neck pillows at airports: rent, rest, and return.
Concept
- Rent a premium neck pillow at the airport.
- Rest during the journey without extra baggage.
- Return the product after arrival.
Project
Pride Design Lab
Student innovation and design lab for creating inclusive, useful, and globally scalable social-impact applications.
- Transforms social challenges into testable digital products
- Combines human-centered research, design, and development
- Builds inclusive concepts intended to create global human value
Project
Green Dot Diaries
A living online diary combining real-time writing, reflective storytelling, place, memory, and personal development.
- Turns ongoing life experiences into evolving digital chapters
- Explores real-time reading and writing as a shared human experience
- Combines reflective writing, interaction design, and creative technology
Project
Ethics by Design
Current Project: Building frameworks for ethical innovation in digital product development.
- Embedding ethics across the product lifecycle
- Guidelines for trustworthy AI decisions
- Methods for accountable innovation
Project
Rent-Mellow Platform
A travel innovation concept that lets people rent a premium neck pillow at the airport, rest during the journey, and return it after arrival.
- Simple rent, rest, and return customer journey
- Designed around comfort, convenience, hygiene, and trust
Project
Sustainable Product Design
Eco-friendly concepts combining ethics and design thinking.
- Behavior change and ethical design cues
- Lifecycle-conscious product decisions
Project
Human-AI Collaboration
Ethical considerations in AI-assisted decision making.
- Shared control and transparency patterns
- Guidelines for responsible AI adoption
About
Hello, I'm Can Kabilay
Founder of Pride Design Lab · Creator of Green Dot Diaries · Human Factors Specialist
Hello, I'm Can Kabilay
I am the founder of Pride Design Lab and a Human Factors Master's student focused on human-centered innovation.
Through Pride Design Lab, I design and develop inclusive digital products and global social-impact applications that aim to be genuinely useful for people.
My work combines human factors, UX research, product strategy, organizational psychology, and technology to turn meaningful ideas into testable solutions.
Technische Universität Berlin — Master's Student in Human Factors
Human Factors & UX
Impact-driven work across research and product innovation.
Product & Technology
Impact-driven work across research and product innovation.
International Experience
Impact-driven work across research and product innovation.
CV
Relevant Experience
Selected roles, study background, and international experience.
Work Experience
Communications (AI Ambassador & Management)
Siemens Mobility GmbH · Berlin, Germany06/2026 – Present
Bringing a Human Factors perspective to internal communication, employee experience, Future Work, workplace transformation, events, workshops, impulse sessions, site communication, and management-facing AI ambassador initiatives.
AI Communications & Learning Design / UX
Siemens Mobility GmbH · Berlin, Germany09/2025 – 06/2026
Supported the onboarding and internal adoption of AI tools for engineering workflows by creating user manuals, tutorials, FAQs, learning materials, knowledge articles, support content, feedback channels, and communication for an AI document analysis hub.
Digital Technology Consultant (Part-time)
BearingPoint GmbH · Berlin, Germany09/2024 – 08/2025
Worked on a BMDV public-sector digital dashboard and web application through manual QA, process validation, usability improvements, UX collaboration, and Figma-based design recommendations.
Junior Software Architect Consulting (Full-time)
T-Systems International GmbH · Berlin, Germany08/2022 – 09/2024
Contributed to European digital identity, cloud-edge, infrastructure, automation, and data-visualization initiatives, including EUDI Wallet, IPCEI-CIS, and DPDHL projects.
Full-Stack Developer (Part-time)
Kvalifik ApS · Copenhagen, Denmark02/2022 – 08/2022
Built Shopify-based web apps with React, HTML5, and Tailwind; integrated REST APIs and ran usability tests to improve conversion.
Software Developer & UX Designer (Internship)
United Nations (UNDP) · Copenhagen, Denmark09/2021 – 02/2022
Developed web platforms for real-time energy management; supported data mining, analytics, and KPI dashboards.
Web/Low-Code Software Development (Part-time)
Siemens AG · Munich, Germany05/2019 – 09/2021
Designed and developed industrial and workforce web applications, including employee profiles, learning and training data, account administration, vacation and sick-leave workflows, dashboards, REST APIs, and SQL-based data integrations.
Projects
EUDI Wallet
T-SystemsProject
Contributed to software architecture and development for the European Digital Identity Wallet using Go, React Native/Expo, microservices, REST APIs, OpenID4VC and DID concepts, Docker, GitLab CI, NATS, Cassandra/PostgreSQL, Kong, Vault, and IPFS.
IPCEI-CIS
T-SystemsProject
Supported the European cloud-edge initiative through technical program coordination, PMO activities, requirements and architecture documentation, advanced-application topics, stakeholder alignment, and data visualization.
BMDV Digital Dashboard
BearingPointProject
Supported a digital public-administration dashboard and web application for the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport through manual QA, test cases, process validation, usability reviews, and UX improvements in Figma.
Workforce Data & Learning Management Web App
Siemens AGProject
Designed and built a role-based employee web application for worker profiles and accounts, learning and training records, data management, vacation and sick-leave workflows, dashboards, and administration using Simplifier, Mendix, SAP-UI5, React, JavaScript, REST APIs, SQL, and low-code technologies.
DPDHL
T-SystemsProject
Supported digitalization, cloud infrastructure, migration, workflow automation, and process optimization activities for Deutsche Post DHL Group.
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