Berlin, this was our biggest design exchange yet! 🇩🇪

90+ people. 7 expert reviewers. 2 clear winners.

And honestly, it was one for the books.

Designers from across Europe came together for an evening of portfolios, honest feedback, new connections, and a little healthy competition.

The best part? Seeing 7 expert review leads sit down in small groups with designers and really dig into their work for almost two hours - asking questions, challenging ideas, and giving detailed feedback and scores.

A huge thank you to our expert Review Leads:
Tim van den Bosch · Yuls Walters · Aleksandra Lazović · Manuel Contardo · Benjamin Bruton · David Muehlfeld · Kartika Dewi

After all the reviews, two designers came out on top:
🏆 Urvi Sanghvi - Best Portfolio (Zenith)
🏆 Yiting Huang - One To Watch (Ignite)
Huge congratulations. You earned it!

And this night wouldn’t have happened without the people who backed it.
Our venue partner, hubraum (Deutsche Telekom’s tech incubator)- thank you for opening your doors, providing the drinks and helping us bring the evening to life!
A special thank you to Jana Eisfeld from hubraum for taking care of all the venue logistics and being so genuinely passionate and helpful throughout the whole process. It made a huge difference!

Sitelane & Tim van den Bosch - thank you for covering the travel for our winners and helping us make this a truly European exchange.

Framer & Mobbin - thank you for giving our winners Pro licenses so they can keep building, learning and pushing their work further!

And to everyone who came, presented, reviewed, gave feedback, asked questions or simply showed up - thank you!
Our winners also received a certificate designed by Nataliya!

This is why we built Softerflow: to create moments where designers can meet across Europe, learn from each other, experience the local design culture and get opportunities that can actually move their careers forward.

Berlin was our biggest yet.
Next stop: Warsaw 🇵🇱 - end of November.
Our Berlin winners are coming with us.
More from Berlin soon! 👀