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

LondonProduct DesignerFintech · Regulated
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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.

  1. 2025

    Product Designer

    Just Group PLCJun 2025 to Present· London

    Mobile app · Financial Products squad

    • Pension finder
    • iDV & KYC
    • Design system
  2. 2024

    Lead Product Designer

    OutfundJun 2024 to Jun 2025· London

    Web app · Revenue-based finance

    • Website redesign
    • A/B landing page
    • Onboarding
  3. 2022

    Product Designer

    OutfundMay 2022 to Jun 2024· London

    Web app · Lending

    • 56% onboarding completion
    • Broker platform
    • KYC revamp
  4. 2022

    Co-instructor, UX Design

    General AssemblyFeb 2022· London

    Education

    • 1-week UX intensive
  5. 2021

    Product Designer

    New Life InternationalDec 2021 to May 2022· Tbilisi

    Web 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

  1. 01

    Design systems

    Recently completed a design systems course, focusing on scalable components, documentation and consistency.

  2. 02

    AI tools

    Exploring AI tools to speed up research synthesis, ideation and prototype workflows.

  3. 03

    Human financial journeys

    Experimenting with ways to make regulated financial journeys feel simpler, warmer and more human.