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Recruiting founding mentors for Hop, new design mentorship platform by Design Buddies!
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...
Config 2026 recap + what to do as a designer
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...
You're invited to join the world's largest design picnic (June 26, San Francisco) + very soft launch of our design mentorship platform 🐰
You're invited to join the world's largest design picnic, happening this friday morning june 26 in San Francisco, right after Config!!
Join 1000+ buddies IRL here: https://luma.com/azhjlwuv
Hosted by Tim Gailey and Grace Ling!
World's l...
Launching design resources database!
Hey Buddies! We are launching our design resources database starting with ~100 curated design resources across categories like from our community like inspiration, AI tools, career resources, fonts, design systems, and more.
Also discount...
🐰The new design process (2026 Edition)
The old way: Research → Wireframes → UI → Handoff
Every arrow in that chain was a place where something got lost.
The new way: Research → AI exploration → Prototype → AI build → Testing → Ship
The new process doesn’t end with you throwi...
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