🎤 Speaker Profile

Name: Daniel Varga

Title: Digital Wellness Researcher & Co-founder, Humane Loop

Background: Daniela Varga is a behavioral scientist, mindfulness teacher, and co-founder of Humane Loop, a digital wellness studio designing products that support mental clarity and human flourishing. Formerly a UX researcher at Calm and Meta, Daniela now focuses on ethics, attention design, and mental health in the attention economy. Her approach merges neuroscience, product strategy, and contemplative practice.

🧠 Talk Title:

“Designing for Sanity: Tech, Attention, and the Future of Focus”

📝 Talk Description:

In a world flooded with pings, scrolls, and endless notifications, our most precious resource isn’t data—it’s attention. And yet, most digital products are designed to fragment it.

In this gently provocative talk, Daniela Varga asks: what if tech helped us slow down instead of speed up? What if apps made us feel whole, not hooked?

With insights from neuroscience, UX, and meditation, Daniela explores how we can build humane, calm, and focus-friendly digital environments. She’ll also share practical frameworks for ethical attention design and show how to measure success beyond time-on-screen.

Key Takeaways:

• What cognitive science tells us about attention and overload

• “Ethical friction” as a design principle

• How to build tech that supports presence, not addiction

• Real-world examples of mindful digital product design

  
  

🔹 Short Bio:

Daniela Varga is a digital wellness researcher and co-founder of Humane Loop. She helps teams design products that nourish the mind, not hijack it.

🔹 Sample Keynote Opener:

“We spend 7+ hours a day on screens. The question isn’t how to use tech anymore—it’s how to live with it.”

“Design is never neutral. Every swipe, scroll, and nudge is a choice. What are you asking your users to pay attention to—and at what cost?”

📢 Social Media Promos:

Instagram:

🧘‍♀️✨ Attention is the new currency. At #FutureFront2025, I’ll be unpacking how we design tech that respects the mind—and gives space to breathe. #DigitalWellbeing #MindfulTech

LinkedIn:

Join me at #FutureFront2025 where I’ll be speaking on a subject close to my heart: designing digital products that care for our mental space, not compete for it. #HumaneDesign #AttentionEconomy