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Hiring in the Age of AI in Design (opens the original)
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Hi everyone! We have a guest post from Carl Wheatley (design recruiter for 10+ years at Meta & designer). We also have an exciting upcoming live talk with Carl about how YOU can get hired as a designer in the age of AI on Thu Sep 3, 1 pm pacific time, online on our Design Buddies YouTube live. RSVPAlso, Carl is a mentor on Hop, our new design mentorship & coaching platform by Design Buddies. Join us as a founding mentor (if you have 5+ years of professional de
🐰Join our 100K+ party! We recently hit 102K+ members on Design Buddies Discord (opens the original)
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Thank you for 100K on Discord! Come join our (virtual) 100K party, meet other designers from Design Buddies, design together, make fun memories, and more!Join us online on Discord on Tue Aug 18, 10 am Pacific Time!<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" heig
Building Hop, new mentorship/coaching platform for designers by Design Buddies! Month 1 update (opens the original)
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Hey everyone! Grace Ling, founder of Design Buddies here. In the last month, we’ve been working on Hop, our new design mentorship/coaching platform for Design Buddies community. I’m going to start sharing my learnings & product updates here too! By the way, you can also sign up to be a founding mentor/mentee by submitting your email on the waitlist on our landing page. We invite people every single day off the waitlist to apply! </
Recruiting founding mentors for Hop, new design mentorship platform by Design Buddies! (opens the original)
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Hey everyone! We’re building Hop, new mentorship platform for Design Buddies.We’re doing our best to build this right. I’ve got 50 1:1 calls with founding mentors joining for feedback, and gonna schedule 50 more with founding mentees soon. Iterating after every call too. For founding mentors, we’re looking for senior level and beyond designers with some experience mentoring and willing to give product feedback<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
Config 2026 recap + what to do as a designer (opens the original)
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Figma’s Config 2026 keynote dropped last week. The whole theme: everything now lives on the canvas with code, motion, shaders, custom tools, and a much smarter agent. Dylan Field framed it like this: “AI has lowered the floor, but it hasn’t raised the ceiling. That part is on us.”So let’s not just read about it. Below is what shipped, who can actually use it today, and a concrete move for each. But first, we’re excited to be annoucing Hop, design mentorship platform! <div class="native
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