Marija Barušić — Product Designer for healthcare & public systems | Fixing complex workflows, usability & adoption issues | 150+ user interviews, 4 platforms shipped | Read my about
Product Designer for healthcare & public systems | Fixing complex workflows, usability & adoption issues | 150+ user interviews, 4 platforms shipped | Read my about
Marija Barušić ranks #441 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators, and is a standout voice in Croatia. They have 949 followers and published 8 posts in the last 30 days at a 25.3% average engagement rate.
- 949 followers
- 8 posts / 30d
- 25.3% avg engagement
- 78 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Marija claims she’s spent her career fixing complex healthcare systems where nobody understands what’s going on, yet she’s managed to post twice this month to an audience of 800 people who clearly have no idea what she does either. She’s the only designer in Croatia who has successfully prototyped a career based entirely on solving problems nobody asked her to acknowledge.
About Marija
Complex systems don’t fail because they lack features.They fail because people don’t understand them.And in healthcare or public systems, that confusion isn’t just frustrating it slows decisions, breaks workflows, and impacts real outcomes.You’ve probably seen it:• Interfaces that overload instead of guide• Workflows that look logical on paper but collapse in practice• Systems people "use" but never fully adoptSo teams keep adding features, redesigning screens, and patching problems……but the core issue stays the same.Clarity was never designed into the system.This is where I come in.I’m a Product Designer focused on healthcare and public systems, working on complex platforms where usability, workflow efficiency, and adoption directly impact real-world outcomes.Not by guessing.But by understanding how people actually behave inside real workflows.What that looks like in practice:• 150+ user interviews and usability tests across healthcare and platform systems• 500+ high-fidelity screens designed around real usage, not assumptions• 4 complete platforms built with adoption and efficiency as the priority• System-level thinking applied across fragmented products (including improving task efficiency by 94%)My focus is simple:Reduce cognitive loadImprove workflow efficiencyIncrease product adoptionBecause if a system needs training to be usable, it’s already broken.I work across the full product lifecycle:Research → structure → flows → interface → validationBut more importantly, I connect all of it into one thing:A system people can actually understand. Focus:Healthcare systems • Public platforms • Complex workflowsAccessibility • Design systems • Data-informed UX • AI in UX If your product feels complex, slow, or hard to use there’s a reason for it.Let’s find it and fix it.Book a 30-min UX audit.https://calendly.com/marijadesigner/30min
Highlights
- Top Engager — 27.90% rate · top 5%
- Top 5% in Croatia — Ranked #1 of 32 creators
- High Impact — 265 avg engagements per post · top 10%
- Consistent Creator — 5 posts in 30d · top 25%
Recent posts
I used to think good UX was about making products easier to use. I was wrong. The more products I redesigned... The more I realized something. Users rarely complain about interfaces. They complain about wasted time. One extra form. One unnecessary screen. One piece of information they have to enter again. It doesn't seem like much. Until it happens every day. The interface isn't the problem. The real problem is that the product doesn't respect people's time. Every decision you ask users to make costs attention. Every unnecessary step costs patience. Every extra second creates friction.
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I used to think good UX was about making products easier to use. I was wrong. The more products I redesigned... The more I realized something. Users rarely complain about interfaces. They complain about wasted time. One extra form. One unnecessary screen. One piece of information they have to enter again. It doesn't seem like much. Until it happens every day. The interface isn't the problem. The real problem is that the product doesn't respect people's time. Every decision you ask users to make costs attention. Every unnecessary step costs patience. Every extra second creates friction.
167 reactions · 126 comments · 1 reposts
I always kind of get pissed off when products ignore solutions that already exist. While redesigning the ticket purchase flow for HŽPP, I noticed users had to fill in page after page of personal information. Again. Even though much of that information already exists in verified systems like Certilia ID. So I asked myself 🤔: Why are we making users repeat work that's already been done? The redesign wasn't about making the form prettier. It was about making most of it disappear. So, this are the steps: 1. Connect Certilia ID. 2. Import verified information. 3. Let users continue. Fewer
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