PROFILE
Designing products for health-tech, social platforms and enterprise software. 6 years of research, interface and the systems underneath. Currently design lead at Plurr.
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(01)
Four case studies: the social app I lead design on now, a nutrition practice’s website and design system, a concert fan app, and an e-bike concept.
Social app · iOS & Android
001
/2025—now
Product design lead · Accepted by the App Store
Website · Design system
002
/2023
Lead product designer at Studio Newfound · Launched Dec 2023
Fan app · iOS
003
/2022
Product design intern · Shipped in the Q2 2022 release
E-bike app · Console
004
/2019
UX researcher & designer · Concept tested with students
More work · write-ups in progress
2022 — now
2023 — 2024
Also worked with
Studio Newfound
Resuscitech
FanBasis
Olér Health
Hibernia Provident Society
Moba
01 / 04
01
WHERE IT STARTS
Research, positioning and the roadmap calls that shape what gets built.
SEEN IN
Plurr — reframing a photo utility into a social product
02
WHAT PEOPLE TOUCH
Flows, UI and the small details that make a product feel considered.
SEEN IN
LifeHive — a homepage designed to earn trust
03
WHAT HOLDS IT TOGETHER
Design systems and tokens that keep teams fast and consistent.
SEEN IN
Plurr — a design system, documented 01–06
04
HOW IT GETS PROVEN
Interactive prototypes and motion to test ideas before they ship.
SEEN IN
Plurr — live web prototypes tested at events
(03) — About
Jorge Andres Vargas · Queens, NY
I’m from Queens, NY and went to the Rhode Island School of Design where I got my Product Design degree. At Plurr I lead design across every core team — discovery through shipped UI, the critique culture, and the design system underneath all of it.
Before Plurr I led client work at Studio Newfound and redesigned the PACELogic dashboard at Intus Care, which is where I learned most design problems are really naming problems. If people can’t say what a thing does, the interface is already broken.
Based in
Queens, New York
Now
Design lead at Plurr
Focus
Product, systems, 0→1
Open to full-time roles
6+
Years designing
products
7
Teams and
studios
10+
Client products at
Studio Newfound
3
Apps live in
the App Store
(04)
7 roles · 6+ years
New York · Providence · Remote
● Current role
2025 — Now
Plurr
· New York, NY
End-to-end design across every core team, from discovery through shipped experience. I set the quality bar in critique, partner with product and engineering on roadmap priorities, and maintain the design system that keeps us fast.
Read the Plurr case study
2022 — Now
NiteOut Technologies
· Remote
A Unity-based virtual social experience designed alongside engineers. Early testing exposed an onboarding problem, so I redesigned that flow around what people actually did. Also shipped five admin dashboard features for tracking KPIs.
2022 — 2024
Studio Newfound
· Providence, RI
Led digital product design for Intus Care, LifeHive Nutrition, Resuscitech, FanBasis and Olér Health — discovery through launch, plus the brand-to-product systems that held each one together across touch points.
Read the LifeHive case study
2023 — 2024
Intus Care
· Remote
Redesigned the PACELogic enterprise dashboard — outdated UI, accessibility gaps, broken workflows. Restructuring the control centre made it usable for providers in PACE settings and supported the company’s Series B.
2022
Hibernia Provident Society
· New York, NY
Redesigned the website around new brand standards, and ran the branding and marketing work that raised the society’s visibility in its community.
2022
Lightcert
· New York, NY
A global live-music platform, researched and designed with engineering and brand. It launched on the App Store and ran with thousands of users at concerts by artists including Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.
Read the Lightcert case study
2020 — 2021
Moba
· Providence, RI
UX for a Brown University startup moving money to countries where transfers are hard. Wireframes, research, journeys, prototypes and testing — my first end-to-end product.
