Lena Varga

I design calm softwarePortrait of Lena Vargafor people with busy days.

Principal product designer at Relay Health. Nine years turning complicated work into interfaces that feel obvious.

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Selected work

Clinician using a tablet at a hospital ward desk
Relay Health, lead2025

A clinician app nurses actually open

Charting time down 31%
Phone showing a banking app on a desk
Tandem Bank2022

Onboarding that earns trust in four screens

Completion 41% to 68%
Printed design system components
Fieldnote2019

Fieldnote design system, from zero

Wireframes and sketches on a desk
Side project2024

Scheduling for shift workers

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Lena Varga at her desk

About

I grew up between Budapest and Toronto and started in print. Today I work on software for people whose jobs are already hard: nurses, bank staff, field engineers. I like small teams, early research and shipping on Thursdays.

  1. 2023 – now

    Principal Product Designer, Relay HealthNow

    Leading design for the clinician app used in 340 hospitals.

  2. 2020 – 2023

    Senior Product Designer, Tandem Bank

    Rebuilt onboarding; sign-up completion up from 41% to 68%.

  3. 2017 – 2020

    Product Designer, Fieldnote

    First design hire. Shipped the iPad app and the design system.

Toolkit

Design

Product strategyInteraction designDesign systemsPrototyping

Research

InterviewsUsability testingService blueprints

Build

FigmaFramerHTML and CSSSwift UI basics

Writing

Open to principal roles from January.

The fastest way to reach me is email. I answer everything within two working days.