Ipek Akarsu

Design

Selected works

Cisco Workspaces answering "Show me the workspace occupancy trends in New York" in an AI chat, with a summary of overall utilization and trends

Cisco AgenticOps

Cisco's Workspaces MCP, now in Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Amazon Quick. I led the agentic design and defined its AI behavior principles.

AI experience design · Cisco Systems
Colleagues presenting at a whiteboard screen in a meeting room

Webex Whiteboard

Building a whiteboarding experience from early concept to launch, across Cisco's meeting room devices, desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

UX design · Cisco Systems, 2019–2024
Ipek at a workbench building a motorised LEGO prototype

LEGO

Internship with Product Technology and LEGO Education teams.

Design internship · Billund, Denmark · 2018
A child and an adult lying on yoga mats doing the same pose, with the tablet and game pieces beside them

YogiMates

A story-led yoga game for children aged 5–7 with ADHD symptoms.

Interactive game design · Bachelor's thesis, Brunel University London
Volunteers holding hand-painted signs on a wall

Elpida Home

Design research and design projects turning an abandoned factory into a home for refugees.

Research in refugee camps · Thessaloniki, Greece · 2016