Events

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Tips

Design a Winning Portfolio

Game UX Panel

Self-Awareness: The most important design skill

Halloween Meetup

Owning Our Power & Impact as Designers

UX/ENG Collaboration: An actionable guide

Design Buddies: Thanksgiving Meetup

Advancing Game UX & Ethics

Recipe for a Sweet Case Study 

Ask Me Anything: Celia Hodent

Design Buddies 1st Game Jam - Kick Off

Game Jam: Demo Day

Design Buddies Winter Party

Design Systems 101: Become a better designer by utilizing the power of design systems

Game Club 

Formula for a Case Study Deck

Building Blocks for Experience Design Workshop

Transitioning to UX

UX Hiring Managers, Demystified

Crafting your Personal Brand - A Hands On Event with Adobe

Lantern Festival Meetup with Design Buddies

Creating Animated GIFs in Photoshop

Logo Animation - A Hands On Event

Hop into UX in the Games Industry

Our Journey into UX

How to Stand Out as a UX Job Seeker

How to use Discord - Learn with Design Buddies

Adventure to Design Leadership

Building Trust & Creating Value With Your Brand

Design Buddies: Portfolio Reviews #1

Social Media Animation - A Hands On Event

Typography Book Club

Design Buddies: 1-Year Birthday Party

Working together as Designers and Product Managers

Pixel Push Your Friendship Shot

Crazy Stories from the Trenches

Fluffle Focus Hours (Co-working)

Active Allyship in Tech

Pixel Push Your Friendship Shot #2

Design Buddies: Portfolio Reviews #2

Small vs. Large Companies as a Designer

Design Buddies: Game Night

Celebrating Asian/Pacific Islanders in Design

Crazy Stories from the Trenches #2

Yeet Your Design Frustrations

UX and Product Management: Making it a Perfect Match

How to Create a Successful Freelance Design Business

Leveling up Your Design Career With Side Projects 

Getting interactive: Designing Games in Adobe XD

What I wish I knew earlier in my design career 

Designing with Accessibility in Mind

Freestyle Design

How Discord Stages was created - Product & design collaboration adventure

Crazy Stories from the Trenches #3: Travel & Startups

Capturing Customer Context for a Post-Covid World

Design Buddies: Portfolio Reviews #3

How To Tell Your Portfolio Story

Leveling up your creative career with communities

Placeholder :D 

Creating Inclusive Culture in Design

3D Workshop with Spline

Interactive Design Workshop with Framer

Solution Ideation, MVP, And Product Intuition

3D Workshop with Spline - Winners & Showcase

How to Design a Stellar Portfolio Presentation

Crafting a Winning Pitch Workshop

Design Your Own Digital Organization System

The People-Pleaser's Guide to Saying No

Make Your Portfolio As Attractive As Your Hinge Profile

How to successfully defend design decisions

Product Splash: Pitch Day

Founder’s stories - Building & scaling large tech communities

Design your UX career

Design Buddies: Portfolio Reviews #4

Build apps with no code: Bravo Studio beginner masterclass - feat. fun design challenge with prizes

Portfolio Campfire: Industry portfolio critique (open to all)

LGBTQIA+ and Allyship Panel

What I would tell my younger designer self

Drawtober: Kick-off

Product design job search hacks

Key UX roles & core soft skills companies look for

Designing at early stage startups

Ask me anything with Discord's Art Team

Design Buddies: Portfolio Reviews #5

From burnout to career boom

Tales from the trenches: the design industry

Let's build an app using Bravo + Figma

Trial and error in creative: Ask me anything

Getting paid fairly: maximize your compensation

Art show & tell 

Leadership vs individual contributor roles

Build your immersive portfolio using virtual worlds

Career transition: build your online presence

Design Buddies: Portfolio Reviews #6

So you're a designer, now what?

Educating friends & families 
on the differences between UX & UI

Building no-code websites on Editor X

Collaborating with cross-functional partners as designers

Marketing strategies for freelancers

How to get into UX in the games industry

Design Buddies

Hey Buddies! 👋 You're all invited to  Becoming a Business Savvy Designer  (Tue 8/24, 5 pm UTC-7 (PST)) with  Kavita Appachu  hosted by General Assembly, Design Buddies, and Adobe XD! 

 Many experienced designers have recently started advocating for designers to learn business. Equipped with business knowledge, designers can make better decisions that benefit users and businesses. Whether you are a freelancer, employee or starting a design company, this webinar is for you!
During this webinar, we will guide you through business basics for designers. Understanding the business essentials will make you feel more confident in having business-focused conversations in your company or when presenting to clients. You will be able to support design ideas with business metrics.
Content covered:
How to speak the language of business
How to support decisions with data
Define the business value of design and metrics
RSVP here (free)
🐰 About Design Buddies
​Design Buddies is an inclusive design community aimed to connect and empower designers by providing free resources, events, mentorship, and more.
​​​​​​​👋 Visit our  website  and hop into our  community !
​​​​​​​🌟 Watch our  past events , read our  blog ,  support us , and connect with us on  Instagram ,  Twitter , and  LinkedIn  for more fun! If you share your takeaways from our events, we will re-share them on our socials and tag you as well.
Best,
Your Fluffle Fam

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Event (Tue Aug 24, 5 pm PT): Becoming a Business Savvy Designer (with General Assembly, Design Buddies, Adobe XD)