How Discord Stages was created - Product & design collaboration adventure

​We're excited to be teaming up with Discord to bring you Discord Stages - Product & Design Collaboration Story. Discord also launched a new stage discovery feature!

​Join us for a fireside chat with Rick Ling (Product Manager) and Shawn Park (Staff Product Designer) on how they created Discord Stages. Learn about how they went from idea to product, what challenges they overcame, their future plans, and more. You may also submit your questions for Rick and Shawn via Luma to be asked live as well.

​​ Event Location

​This event will be taking place on Discord Stages in the Design Buddies Discord community. There will also be a text channel to communicate during the event:

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​​🐰 About Rick

​Rick Ling is the Product Lead on Creator Ecosystems at Discord, focused on helping creators who build awesome stuff on the platform. Rick is the previous CEO and co-founder at Blitz, an esports startup that build apps and produces content to help players get better at competitive video games.

​Connect with Rick on Twitter!

​​🐰 About Shawn

​Shawn Park is a Staff Product Designer at Discord, leading design for communities team with Rick, and messaging team improving the text chat experience. He studied computer science in UC Berkeley where he met Rick, who Shawn later worked on a startup Blitz with, which eventually got acquired by Discord.

​In his spare time, he loves collecting and brewing all kinds of tea, plays a ton of games (ahem, including spending money on mobile gacha games), and claims to be a "half-doctor."

​Connect with Shawn on Twitter and check out his portfolio!

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​​​🐰 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, check our shop, support us, and connect with us on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn for more fun!

​​​See you here, Every Bunny!

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​This event in a public Stage Channel is being recorded. By attending the event, by participating in any Q&A, and/or by speaking or performing during the event, you are consenting to audio recording of your voice and/or performance as well as video recording of your username and profile picture -- even if you do not speak and/or perform during the event. You also consent to the copying, creation of derivative works, use, distribution, and publication of the recordings in any postings on social media, public announcements, publications, websites, applications, and other commercial, marketing, or promotional materials produced by or for Discord Inc. without your review or approval, worldwide and in perpetuity.

​Please refrain from use of profanity or any obscene language or remarks during this event. As a reminder, Discord’s Community Guidelines apply (in addition to any server-specific rules), and violation of these guidelines, including any form of hate speech or bullying, is prohibited and may result in your removal from the event, the server, or the platform.

​🙌 Thank you to the Discord team! #ad