This paper is concerned with the existence of conformal metrics of the disk with prescribed Gaussian and geodesic curvatures. Being more specific, given nonnegative smooth functions K : D → R and h : ∂D → R, we consider the problem of finding a conformal metric realizing K and h as Gaussian and geodesic curvatures, respectively. This is the natural analogue of the classical Nirenberg problem posed on the disk. As we shall see, both curvatures play a role in the existence of solutions. Indeed we are able to give existence results under conditions that involve K and H, where H denotes the harmonic extension of h. The proof is based on the computation of the Leray-Schauder degree in a compact setting.