#67 - Building Design Communities, with Grace Ling, UX Designer at Electronic Arts, and Founder of Design Buddies

Grace Ling is a UX designer at Electronic Arts and the founder of the Design Buddies, one of the world’s largest design communities. But among all the UX design and community work, Grace finds time to tackle many other ventures, like public speaking, content creation, 3D modelling, and traveling.

In this show, we discuss her recipes for balancing a large number of side hustles, overcoming challenges in bootstrapping a design community from scratch, and what’s the best way to build a network early on in your career.

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