Design hot takes, world tour, and salary report!
Design hot takes, world tour, and salary report!
Hey Buddies! We got some spicy takes and exciting events happening around the world for you!
Anonymous salary survey & free report
We want you all to get paid fairly. Contribute to our anonymous salary report and get a copy of the results for free.
World tour (again) & events
We’re bringing more online events AND traveling the world again! We were just in Europe and now heading to Asia soon.
Online events
Content creation, soft skills, and podcasting as a designer with Jeremy Miller, host of Beyond UX Design podcast on Fri Aug 16, 10 am PT (UTC-7)
Inside Framer: Behind the Scenes of the New Home Page + Landing Page Tips with Jurre, VP of Marketing at Framer on Mon Aug 19, 8 am PT
In-person events
San Francisco: Asian Female Founders Potluck Sun Aug 18, 5 pm
Vancouver Canada: Design Meetup at UXxUX Conference: Life beyond your job title on Aug 21! Use code FLUFFLE40 for a discount on your tickets
Seattle: Epic Launch Party (Design Buddies & UXGO) on Wed Aug 28, 6 pm. Also Founder Grace Ling’s birthday!
World tour
Reach out to Grace Ling via grace@designbuddies.community you'd like to hang out / host events here, got one planned in almost every city now but always down for more.
Vancouver, Canada: Aug 20-24
Seattle: Aug 24-29
Back home in San Francisco: Aug 29-Sep 15
Seoul: Sep 16-22
Singapore: Sep 22-30
Bali: Oct 1-30 (running a founder/creator house - message me if interested)
Maybe Thailand after before going back to SF
South America & Antarctica: December
Also got a new newsletter, Grace Pace! Stay up to date on Grace’s learnings while growing Design Buddies, traveling, and more life after corporate~
Design hot takes
We asked professionals in our Discord community for their hottest takes, here they are:
“Listening to users is overrated and design doesn't have to cater to everyone.” - Axiom
“We all are copying” - yB
“Figma not getting acquired by Adobe is a good thing.” -arsenal
“I love the new Figma UI3!” - Bent
“Figma rolling out AI to some users and not everyone at once is legit what an unfair advantage is” - Naram
“AI will completely outdate our current solutions to digital accessibility.” - Nate Bauer
“Accessibility isn’t half as considered as most conferences would have you believe. New EU rules will change that next year (hopefully). Adobe’s stranglehold on design is holding the industry back.” - Mitchell Eva
“There is moral responsibility in design. As a designer, you're not only making things pretty, or usable, but in acting as a designer, you are implicitly and actively supporting that designed thing. You must be conscious of the people, entities, products, and services you choose to support through your work.” - @philippe_s_jones
“good UI is not a guarantee for good UX” - Men
“The core principle of user experience is understanding users, which is still underrated, was never just about listening to them, and should never try to cater to everyone. Design is the production of solutions to that understanding, but can also be sensory appealing, which is not always the same thing.” - Box
“Following design trends is stupid and does not automatically makes you a good designer. Understanding the core principals and applying them based on the situation does.” - You
“helvetica is boooohring” - pixy’s
“Making everything white and creme colors for something that's supposed to be elegant just means you could be better than this.” - Horrorskop
“No design is good design” - Dark
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