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The metaverse died, but spatial design didn't (what designers can take away)
Yesterday, Meta officially announced it’s shutting down Horizon Worlds on Quest headsets. By June 15, the VR version of what was supposed to be the metaverse will be gone.
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Learning Design From an Unconventional Path to Landing a UX Design Internship at EA in 8 Months
Hi everyone! Grace here, the founder of Design Buddies. I know the design job market is rough right now and I wanted to share this article I wrote back in 2020 with everythign that helped me land my first job in UX design (thanks Electronic...
Designing with data: A UX research guide for designers
The best designs are usually rooted in data, not just intuition. If you want to gain credibility with stakeholders and build experiences that truly resonate with customers, you need to develop your user research skills.
This guide will sho...
How I got my dream product design internship (Manvi’s story)
Meet Manvi from our Design Buddies community! She is a product design student who graduated from an HCI master’s program at The University of Michigan, a CoCreate cohort alumna with Tempo Labs (YC), and is now leading a design/marketing tea...
🐰 2025 state of design + 2026 predictions
We watched over 200,000 tech workers get laid off. We saw AI go from “cute party trick” to “wait, is this thing taking my job?” We collectively doom-scrolled through LinkedIn posts about “pivoting” while eating our feelings.
We’re still he...
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