Why Designers Can't Ship Their Portfolios

Stop treating your portfolio as a collection of case studies. Start treating it as the first product you ship.

Designers spend their careers designing, building, and shipping products for others, yet often struggle to launch the one product that represents their own work: their portfolio.

In this talk, Karla Fernandes explores what gets in the way of shipping and how treating your portfolio like a real product changes the process.

This talk will be in English.

About the Speaker
Karla Fernandes teaches you how to design, build, and ship digital products as a team of one, using AI where it matters most. She simplifies the path from idea to market through process, strategy, experimentation, and clear results. Her work combines UX/UI design, digital product strategy, and hands-on execution. She designs interfaces, builds systems, ships products, and teaches others to do the same. She has collaborated with startups, tech companies, educational organizations, and service-based businesses across the globe.

A Special Location
We’re meeting at Velvet’s NEW location!
The event takes place in their garage space. It’s dry and sheltered, but not heated, so dress warm!
Looking forward to a cosy evening of UX, inspiration and good conversations.

Agenda

18:30 Doors open
19:00 Talk
20:00 Networking