Grace Ling is a current Product UX Designer at Electronic Arts while also being the founder of Design Buddies, an online design community housed in Discord with over 50k members. She also draws and creates lifestyle content on TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.

1:30 - What is product UX design? How do you work with other functions? What is different about product UX in gaming vs. other industries?

7:55 - How did you go from bioengineering and computer science in undergrad to self studying UX design and doing your own independent projects?

14:15 - How did you found Design Buddies and what were your lessons learned when scaling it?

24:10 - How do you keep generating content consistently across all your platforms?

Follow her and join Design Buddies below:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graceling

Instagram (lifestyle): @irungracepace https://www.instagram.com/irungracepace/

Instagram (art): @candyleaf https://www.instagram.com/candyleaf_/

TikTok (art/lifestyle): @candyleaf https://www.tiktok.com/@candyleaf

Twitter: @graceleaf https://twitter.com/graceleaf_

Discord (jobs + free resources + networking if anyone is into design): https://discord.gg/designbuddies

Grace's views are her own and are not representative of any of her current or past employers.