🐰📰 Newsletter #7 | Job board, merch store, giveaways, and more!

Hey Buddies! 👋

We have some exciting launches and fun activities coming for at/to you this week - our job board & talent collective, merch store, and some events. Read to the end for a fun Pie Day challenge and scholarship opportunity!

🚀 Job board

We’re officially launching our job board on Pallet, featuring design jobs from our community, for our community! We’re excited to be providing this opportunity for job seekers, hiring managers, and recruiters to help each other out.

🐰 Job seekers

Find regularly updated design jobs for all levels, located all over the world. You can also apply to join our talent collective (free to join), which is shared with companies.

Apply to talent collective | Find jobs

🐰Hiring managers and recruiters

Want to get your job in front of tens of thousands of designers who regularly engage in the design community and participate in design workshops? You can submit your job and gain access to our talent collective.

It’s free to submit a job. However, we do have a featured tier (perk: we share your job across our channels).

Current price: $99 until Mon Mar 14, 11:59pm PT (UTC-8) After Mar 14: $199

Submit jobs and gain access to our talent collective

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🎁 Merch store

We are excited to be launching our merch store! For our initial launch, we have a few collections: Logo, Fluffle cafe, Fluffle coding, and Fluffle sus by Grace and Yumi!

On Redbubble, you can also select which kind of item you would like based on the design (e.g. stickers, t-shirts, tote bags, notebooks, and more).

Items will also be updated regularly here, so stay tuned! Up next will be our limited edition birthday merch collection following a party. (Design Buddies turns 2 years old on Apr 10!)

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📅 Events

Acing the app critique for your next product design interview (Mon Mar 21, 5 pm PST (UTC-8)) with Minjun!

Let’s express it, Buddies! How to stand out with your social posts with Creative Cloud Express (Wed Mar 25, 5 pm PST (UTC-8)) with Katrina and our Buddies at Adobe!

We’ll have some templates to remix for a chance to be selected for a 1:1 session with Katrina and a 1 year subscription of Creative Cloud 👀

Event reminder

⭐️ Accessibility design workshop (Thu Apr 7, 3 PM PST (UTC-8)) with our Buddies at Bitesize UX! Free for all buddies

View all our events at a glance

Event recordings

🎞 Stories of being first-gen in tech (Chat there was lit, we even created #⭐first-gen-designers from y'alls requests)

🎞 Resume and cover letter workshop with our Buddies at MURAL

See more on our YouTube channel!

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🐰 Community

New emotes

We have some new emotes & stickers on Discord by artists Yumi and Grace!

Community spotlight

Check out our latest admin carousels featuring Jess and Nabil!

Media

Design Leader Insights: Design Buddies was featured in this interview with Grace by Fuego UX. Gain some actionable tips on how to scale a side hustle while having another full-time job!

Tiger design challenge submissions

Happy year of the tiger! here are some submissions from Brooke, Rochelle, Akemi, and Kelly from our last newsletter!

Prototype challenge

We teamed up with Protopie to bring you the Pie Day: Prototype Challenge!

Buddies come join and create your very own E-Commerce App prototype and win prizes.

🎁 Prizes: 1-year team plan / ProtoPie swag

⏰ March 14 to 31, 11:59 PM PST

Share your creations in #🥧 prototype-challenge on Discord!

Design scholarships

Gain real world design skills with Co.Lab! Co.Lab is an 8-week, team-based learning program, where you work with a product manager and software engineers to ship a real product. You'll also get access to a dedicated mentor plus over 20 classes that teach you how to communicate effectively as a team and more.

Their project-based curriculum is a great way to gain real-world, collaborative experience in a safe learning environment. They have cohorts kicking off monthly, and we’re working with the Co.Lab team to offer scholarships to students!

Apply here by March 11 to be considered for COLAB10:

Learn more here, and watch the quick explainer video

Partner

🌈 Our Buddies at Spline launched Spline Beta! Check out more in their tweet

Resources shared on Discord

⭐️ 3 secret tips to ace your next whiteboard challenge (video - by our community member, Soy!)

⭐️ How to build a design system when you’re the only designer at a startup (article)

⭐️ UX portfolio case study templates and examples (article)

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🐰 About Design Buddies

Design Buddies is an inclusive design community where all designers can level up. We have resources, events, design activities, mentorship, and more.

👋 Visit our website and hop into our community!

🎁 Find and post jobs on our job board, and check out our merch!

🌟 Watch our past events, read our blog, support us, and connect with us on Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, and LinkedIn for more fun!

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Best,

Your Fluffle Fam