Selected work
& experiments

Websites and digital brand worlds, designed and built around how people discover, choose and buy.

Client websites and independent concept studies, grouped by what they do. Switch to Underneath to see how each one is built.

04 Projects · 03 Interactive · 10 Direction studies Scroll to explore
Selected projects / 01—04Hover a project to look underneath
InteractiveBrowser-native

Smaller in scope.
Complete as worlds.

Experiments in sound, music, space, product and narrative. A place to test interaction ideas before they become part of larger client systems.

The practice Berlin 52.52° N · Istanbul 41.01° N

About

Buse Şahin
Buse Şahin · Independent web designer
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Atlas Atelier is the independent practice of Buse Şahin, designing and building websites, Shopify stores and digital brand worlds between Berlin and Istanbul. I start with two questions: how should the brand feel, and what does the system need to do?

Then I design and build both.

  • 01The site, the store, the collection and the interaction people see.
  • 02The journeys, structure and logic working underneath.

Before Atlas, I spent six years working across global commerce and consumer technology at HelloFresh and Sony. Working at scale taught me what happens beyond the design: where digital journeys break, how systems connect, and what it takes to make an experience work.

  • 30+Markets shipped to, each with its own language, rules and devices
  • QABrowser-based testing tools, built independently where manual checks kept failing
  • CodeDesign and frontend from the same hands, so nothing gets lost in handoff
Every project has two layers.
What I doSurface / Underneath

What people experience,
and what makes it work.

01

Concept & UX

  • Surface
  • A concept you can walk into
  • Atmosphere before information
  • Rooms, edits, finders: formats people remember
  • The moment someone decides
  • Underneath
  • What people are actually trying to decide
  • Journeys built from that intent
  • Information architecture
  • Prototypes before production
  • A system the next page can follow
02

Websites & Shopify

  • Surface
  • A store that feels like the brand, not the theme
  • Collections that do the curating
  • Product pages that answer the second question
  • Interaction only where it earns its place
  • Underneath
  • Custom Shopify sections & metafields
  • Frontend built to be maintained
  • Content the team can edit without breaking
  • Apps kept to a minimum
  • QA on real devices, edge cases first
03

Performance

  • Surface
  • Fast enough to forget about
  • Fewer reasons to leave
  • Results you can read at a glance
  • Underneath
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Friction audit, landing to checkout
  • Technical SEO
  • Tracking that follows real behaviour
  • What changes after launch, and why
Art directionCasting · Styling · Light · Set

The feeling is decided before anything is built.

Every brand world starts as a direction.Who is in it? Where does the light fall?How should the room feel? How should the product behave?
These frames make that direction visible, whether the next step is a shoot, a campaign, a launch or a digital experience.

    Creative direction — Atlas AtelierImage production — AI