I’m Lela,a designer who makescomplex thingsfeel simple.

Currently
Just Group PLC · London
Financial Products squad, mobile app
Recognition
Award for championing Just Group's value of being Collaborative — Just Group · Nov 2025
I'm a Product Designer specialising in fintech. Right now I'm in the Financial Products squad at Just Group, designing mobile experiences for retirement, identity and onboarding.
Before product design, I spent over a decade in sales and customer facing roles. That background quietly shapes everything I make. I've sat with the person on the other end of a confusing form, and I never want anyone to feel like that again.
I gravitate toward regulated, high trust environments like pensions, lending and identity verification, because the constraints sharpen the design. Compliance isn't an obstacle, it's a brief.
Outside of work, I'm reading more than is reasonable, and speaking too many half fluent languages: native English, fluent Georgian, upper intermediate Spanish, intermediate German.
Experience
A timeline.
2025
Product Designer
Just Group PLCJun 2025 to Present· LondonMobile app · Financial Products squad
- Pension finder
- iDV & KYC
- Design system
2024
Lead Product Designer
OutfundJun 2024 to Jun 2025· LondonWeb app · Revenue-based finance
- Website redesign
- A/B landing page
- Onboarding
2022
Product Designer
OutfundMay 2022 to Jun 2024· LondonWeb app · Lending
- 56% onboarding completion
- Broker platform
- KYC revamp
2022
Co-instructor, UX Design
General AssemblyFeb 2022· LondonEducation
- 1-week UX intensive
2021
Product Designer
New Life InternationalDec 2021 to May 2022· TbilisiWeb app · Healthcare
- IVF clinic redesign
- +33% inquiries
Education
AI Prototyping Workshop
Memorisely · July 2025
Design Systems Bootcamp
Memorisely · May 2025
UX Design
General Assembly · 2021
BA Spanish & German
University of Bristol · 2008 to 2012
Currently Exploring
- 01
Design systems
Recently completed a design systems course, focusing on scalable components, documentation and consistency.
- 02
AI tools
Exploring AI tools to speed up research synthesis, ideation and prototype workflows.
- 03
Human financial journeys
Experimenting with ways to make regulated financial journeys feel simpler, warmer and more human.