🐰📰 Newsletter # 12 | How to get over imposter syndrome, working with engineers, and first in-person meet up!

Howdy, Buddies!

We’re coming to your inbox with some actionable tips to help you level up your life, more events, and our first in-person event.

How to get over imposter syndrome

Imposter syndrome - it’s that feeling where you don’t think you’re capable to do something. But you know what - you are. Here are some mindset shifts that will help you believe it yourself.

⭐️ Let go of perfectionism. It’s a waste of time to chase something that doesn’t exist. Life is all a fun iterative experiment. Keep creating and doing, making mistakes, and learning from them. Keep leveling up.

⭐️ Instead of looking at other people as “competition,” focus on what you can learn from them. Maybe even collaborate and create something cool together.

⭐️ Stop comparing yourself with others. It’s completely out of your control. You have so many great things yourself that is your control.

⭐️ Try new things and don’t wait for anyone’s “permission” to do so. It’s fun and will help you build more skills! It’s your life, not someone else’s. Own it.

🐰 Written by Grace Ling

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🎉 Events

We're partnering with Zeplin to bring you a workshop about design & developer collaboration to help you level up your design career. The day-to-day life of a UX designer involved partnering with engineering teams to build products.

Learn actionable skills to collaborate with them to create more impact on your product at Design & engineering collaboration: The design handoff process (Wednesday, September 14, 2022 3:00 PM PST (UTC-7)) with speaker Michael!

We're excited to host our FIRST in-person meetup at GHC (Grace Hopper Celebration). 🎉 Anyone interested in UX and product are welcome to come and meet other folks with similar interests. We can provide some ice breaker questions to help y'all get to connect with new people!

This event will be hosted by Grace Ling, Alea Oakman, Harshika Jain, and Natashia Tjandra.

Join us at the Orange County Convention Center on Thu Sep 22, 3:30 PM ET. RSVP for email updates on exact meeting location and any event updates -

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📕 Jobs

Recent design roles we found in our community's job board. You can also apply to join our talent collective here!

💼 Senior Product Designer, Tellie (Remote)

💼 Product Designer, Betmaster (Estonia)

💼 Design Internships, Directive (Remote, Canada)

Are you a hiring manager looking to feature jobs in our newsletter? Please fill out our partnerships form to get in touch with us!

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🐰Community

Resources shared on Discord

⭐️ List of resources for designers

⭐️ Research papers outcome search engine

⭐️ Freelance contract generator

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🎁 Perks

1. Design scholarships with Co.Lab - Update: Scholarships open for next and all the upcoming cohorts now each taking place at different times (detailed on their website). See more details and apply

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🐰 About Design Buddies

​Design Buddies is a community where you level up your design career. Make lifelong friends, improve your design craft, and land jobs. We have free resources, events, design challenges, a job board, mentorship, fun perks, and more. 

👋 Visit our website and hop into our community!

🎁 Find and post jobs on our job board, and apply to become a mentor!

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Best,

Your Fluffle Fam