Safa Bilici
Not a designer, merely a craftsman
Built a wedding seating planner because spreadsheets felt emotionally offensive for weddings.
Atelier - Wedding Seating Studio
- aka oturmayageldik.com (http://oturmayageldik.com)
A calm, editorial canvas for designing wedding seating arrangements.
You can:
• drag tables onto an infinite canvas
• rotate and lock layouts
• assign guests to seats
• track bride/groom sides
• manage RSVPs, dietary notes, VIPs
• export print-ready seating plans
What surprised me while building it:
Most wedding tools optimize for “event management.”
But seating charts are actually a spatial + social design problem.
You’re balancing:
- families
- politics
- friendships
- divorced couples
- VIPs
- dietary constraints
- table dynamics
…usually inside Excel.
So I built a tool focused only on that moment.
No giant wedding suite.
No cluttered dashboards.
Just one calm canvas.
Also:
• fully localized in English + Turkish
• mobile-friendly
• undo/redo history
• export to image / print / email
• side-awareness for bride vs groom seating
The name “Oturmaya Geldik” is a Turkish joke/reference roughly meaning:
“we came here to sit.”
Which felt appropriate.
Would love feedback from all. Thanks.
→ oturmayageldik.com (http://oturmayageldik.com)
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Custom-built e-commerce platform for Bims Tekstil’s upcycled stock fabrics, designed and developed end-to-end.
Includes a complete shopping experience with cart, checkout, payments, stock management, and admin dashboard.
shop.bimstekstil.com (http://shop.bimstekstil.com)
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Why haven’t I seen renovation companies using the Lando Norris website-style reveal mask animation?
“Before → After” is literally the perfect use case, show the old space, then scrub/reveal the renovation in one satisfying hero interaction.
I didn’t even bother adding a navbar, contact form, or any of the usual site stuff, and honestly, even as just a hero concept it still feels better than the industry standard (imo).
https://mairenovate.framer.website/
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I learned how to read by myself, mostly by pressing random keys on Microsoft Word and then calling my mum and asking:
“Does this make a word?”
Now, years later, my 2.5-year-old and I were practicing some letters on Pages. At some point, she got upset. She had typed a duck and a toilet emoji and she expected them to merge into a new one according to the context, something like a pooping duck.
So I created a less-is-more kind of web app:
oku.kids (http://oku.kids)
• a free type canvas (that also follows the words added in the parent space)
• a match-the-letter page
• smiley generation
What I’m also weirdly happy about is the auth screen. Almost all the text is faded until the user types those specific letters, as if they are learning those letters and they slowly become visible.
I think I can finally call myself: Vibe Dad.
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