Lauren 🖤 Kelly

We design solutions for people, businesses and products. Alternatively, we can help you to recruit designers. - Fearless™️

As a Designer by trade, I spent the best part of my career working with design teams in enterprise businesses around the world.

Originally rebelling against the idea of giving up my design hat, after 4 years of Fearless I’ve since learned I love being an entrepreneur with big ambitions and a lot of heart for the future.

The Fearless team specialises in quality design and can either taken projects end to end with meaningful impact and measurable results.

With a constant view of the forever changing design industry, we often team up with others to support charity initiatives and beta tests that will contribute towards designing a better world. 

We are authentically Fearless and believe in results through empowerment. 

I am a proud member of Chief, the community for Female Execs and Helm, the community for entrepreneurs. 

If you’re also a member, an entrepreneur / founder, Senior Leader, a fellow design nerd, ADHD, working single parent or just a bit curious, I’d love to hear from you. 🫶🏼🖤

Networking and finding incredible people from across the world is my passion, if thats you, let’s chat!

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* Originally co-founded in 2019, I stepped into the CEO role in 2020 and become the sole founder of Fearless Group at the start of 2023.

CEO & Founder

Our three Design focused business combined makes us the the one stop shop for scaling culture driven design teams and solutions. 

I lead design teams. I love making designers lives better by helping them with their career growth.

Dan Winer

Whatever you call yourself
UX, UI/UX, product designer.

UI is part of the product.
The product is part of the experience.
And the business is the context for all of it.

This year, aim to go beyond delivering prototypes.

That means: 
• Use visuals to bring clarity to ambiguous problems
• Consider how decisions scale across the product
• Understand what customers are trying to achieve
• Explain how your work changes their behaviour
• Connect behaviour change to business goals
• Communicate intended outcomes, not just solutions
• Take ownership of what ships, not just design files
• Track flows, drop-offs, and time-to-value
• Shape the problem, not just the interface

This is the shift from executing design work to building influence, shaping the problem, and owning outcomes.

With AI tools, anyone can have a portfolio in React
How I would create a portfolio site for free in 2026:

1. Start by writing the content: intro, about me page, case studies, ideally in markdown. 

2. Get all my images ready for the intro, about me and case studies. 

3. Figma for the general design direction. I wouldn't worry about getting every page in Figma and every single detail, but I would want to define at least the visual identity there (whether I want it to be brutalist, modern, clean, aesthetic, minimalist, black-and-white, colourful, etc.).

4. Add text files, images and rules for LLMs, including front-end skills (eg impeccable.style), in a folder on my computer

5. Open the folder in an AI coding tool (Cursor or Antigravity would be my top choices) and ask it to build the structure for a very simple portfolio site with a homepage and three case studies. I ask to use Vite for faster build times, but it's not essential. 

5. After the initial scaffold is built, I would go component by component (eg, header, then hero, then case study overview, etc), pasting in a component to Cursor and getting it built one by one. Avoiding a one-shot prompt. 

6. Once you have the right structure but missing details, I would try two approaches: a) describing the problem along with screenshots of Figma vs the actual build, and b) using Cursor's design mode, and see which approach you find more efficient to get the details right. 

7) The trickiest part for beginners, but totally worth it: you want to set up a workflow where you push your site to GitHub. To do this, you can try a) doing it all through your AI tool, b) via an app like SourceTree (free and awesome), or c) via the command line (long-term best approach but steep learning curve).  

8) Create a Netlify account and set up an automatic deploy linked to your GitHub repo you just created. Now every time you open a pull request or push to your main branch, Netlify will build your site for you. All that's left is to buy a domain if you haven't got one and point it to Netlify. 

Once you've done all that, you will have a site you can build and host for free, or pay around $20/month for a Cursor subscription. With Antigravity, you could probably do the whole thing for free (minus the cost of your domain subscription). 

Of course, this is very simplified, but sometimes just knowing all the steps and you have to investigate is enough to get started.

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