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Grace Ling 🎨 Designer & Artist

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My art playground!
Founder @design.buddies • UX Designer • Illustrator • Runner
💁🏻@irungracepace
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I drew this by hand with wood (pyrography), not AI. As a kid I wanted to be an anime artist and drew daily But went to school for bioengineering and computer science engineering instead Decided I didn’t like it and worked in the gaming industry as a designer after school Drew every day when the world shut down during covid again Quit my job 2 years ago to do content and Design Buddies community full time Low key discouraged to draw bc of all the AI stuff and how I must explain how my art isn’t AI But this was fun and I should draw more. And you should too. We should art maxx again. Gonna do more art and share on @candyleaf_ Thank you @priscilla.png and @kiramadethis for hosting creator craft night at @match_and_melt_craft_bar & @jiaqis_mochi !! [pyrography art, wood burning art, hand drawn art, traditional art, not AI art, artist comeback, drawing again, art maxxing, anime artist, childhood artist, creative journey, designer artist, San Francisco artists, SF creatives, Bay Area artists, creator craft night, craft night SF, handmade artwork, design community, Design Buddies]
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I spent 2025 exploring everything. This year, I’ve decided to focus on my own content + design in 2026 and have that funnel into everything I do to grow: - @design.buddies community: We have 100K members, let’s try making that 200K - @howcreatorsmakemoney Podcast: Expanding from podcast to newsletter & carousels that focus on advice to help creators - Events: Hosting events with my friends for fun, but also going to co-host LA creator week (Aug 30-Sep 5 this year)! - (Semi) professional running: Following my childhood dreams, will see if I can make it to the marathon Olympic trials?! - Drawing! I used to draw every day in high school and during covid, fell off as life got busy, but this was fun and I’m going to draw every day again!! And documenting all of this on social media to grow as a creator!! How I’m using @notionhq Agent: - Turning my voice to text notes into a clean outline and LinkedIn posts. Even populate it on my content calendar. Training Notion Agent to learn my voice - Storing my whole LinkedIn content library, including my old notes so Notion Agent learns my tone of voice and generates me more content ideas - As a database to keep track of all of my brand deals and projects, meeting notes, and next steps Try Notion Agent for free at: https://ntn.so/GraceLing What are your goals for 2026? #NotionPartner [notion, notion agent, productivity, creator, founder, designer, founder mode, content creator, social media, creator tips, creator advice, creator economy, influencer, design, art, kawaii art, illustration, artist, podcast, Silicon Valley, runner, running community, tech community, creator community, designer community] Grace 2026 goals drawings of me in front of Los Angeles pink wall with text design buddies, how creators make money, events, semi professional running, design and art, and social media
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Deadline extended nov 21st! 👊✨ Hi, I’m Cyn Lagos, I’m an artist and visual mentor. I’m celebrating a special milestone in my creative journey, and I want to invite you to celebrate with me! ✨ The best part 🎁 I’ll be giving away a free year of Adobe Express Premium! THE TREASURE ✨HUNT I’ve hidden several of my tutorial videos inside @photoshop 🫣 think of them as little hidden gems waiting for you to find. 💎 1️⃣ Find my tutorials inside Photoshop. 2️⃣ Snap a selfie with my video on your screen and DM me let me know where in the world you’re tuning in from. 3️⃣ Get a shoutout in my next post and enter to win a free year of Adobe Express premium (Photoshop’s Besties)🎉 Let’s have some fun, learn together, and see those treasure hunt selfies from all over the globe! 🚀
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This was our first virtual meetup with the topic "Learn Design from an unconventional background" Speaker: Grace Ling @irungracepace (UX & Product Designer, Electronic Arts) Speaker portfolio: https://grace-ling.com/ #FriendsofFigma #FigmaDesign #fofLahore #uxdesign #designcommunity #uxui #graceling #designbuddies
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Our prerelease version is available for our beta testers , you’re gonna wanna try this out @ home.mimixai.app . Let us know what you think ^^ Mimix your audience , maximize your launch!##buildinpublic #bolthackathon #mimix #mimixai #boltdotnew #abtesting
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@irungracepace (Grace Ling) shared how AI boosts productivity without replacing human creativity. 🔥 AI Tools: • ChatGPT – Idea generation & competitive analysis • Perplexity – Fact-checking with cited sources • Photoshop (Generative Fill) – Removing unwanted elements in photos • CapCut – Video editing • Opus – Auto-clipping long-form content into short videos AI assists you, it doesn’t replace you! How do you use AI in your workflow? 📌 follow for more helpful content like this! #nassummit #aitools #chatgpt #photoshop #opusclip #capcut #perplexity
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keep Austin creative 🤠 some of the best moments from the #YouTubeCreatorCollective event at @SXSW
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Part 2: 35 Years of Creating Together! 🎉✨⁠ ⁠ For 35 years, Photoshop has been at the heart of creativity—helping artists, designers, and dreamers bring their visions to life! 🖌️💙⁠ ⁠ To celebrate, we’re showcasing incredible creations from our amazing community. Swipe through to see their work and soak in the inspiration! 🎨✨⁠ ⁠ See someone’s work you know? Tag them in the comments below and show them some love! ❤️👇
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Offering: UX design work for select startups!! Anyone building a cool startup and need UX design work done? We’re recruiting project partners again at Design Buddies/UXGO for our next design project cohort which starts Jan 15, 2025. More info here, please fill out the form here: https://www.designbuddies.community/project-partner What kind of products are you building? 👀 —— If you are learning UX design: We are also launching our next 10-week design project cohort after filling up our last one. Learn UX design from coaches who are designers in big tech. Work with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders. Ship a real product that would make your portfolio ready to land job interviews! It starts Jan 15, 2025. Apply today! We’re accepting on a rolling basis: tinyurl.com/design-cohort For UX beginners, university students, master’s students, and new graduates lacking real-world internship, project experience, or aim to land a competitive big tech role. Thank you all and happy holidays~!
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Spilling some tea on unconventional skills you can have to land your dream design job in 2025!! We dive into: - How to use AI to write your cover letters and more for you! - Taking advantage of LinkedIn - Working on projects in emerging tech - How to gain experience without a job, so that you can get a job - How to build a portfolio that slaps - Networking hacks - More Read! on our free newsletter: https://designbuddies.substack.com/p/design-job Written by Grace Ling @irungracepace on a 17-hour flight from Bangkok to Lisbon — By the way we are also launching our next 10-week design project cohort after filling up our last one. Learn UX design from coaches who are big tech designers. Work with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders. Ship a real product that would make your portfolio ready to land job interviews! It starts on Jan 15, 2025. Apply today! We’re accepting on a rolling basis: https://www.ux-go.com/uxgo-2025/10-week-internship-course Unconventional ways to land a UX design job in 2025 laptop on cruise ship in the Caribbean
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Adobe MAX Miami last week was a blast! What an amazing way to meet creatives from all over the globe, and learn from them at the same time. I never felt more tired and excited at the same time, hoping this experience would last longer. Here are some photos from the event - I included everyone who attended the summit as well in the end! ❤️ thanks Liz for the invite. Happy to have met all of you. (I only tagged the faces l could find but l know there were so many more friends!) . . #adobeMAX #maxinspiration #maxmiami #adobemaxmiami #miami #florida #illustration #creativeconference #micktflior #commercialillustration #freelance #advertisingillustration #flamingos #miamibeach #party #fun #design #art #adobeillustrator #MAX2024
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🦩Here’s my Adobe MAX recap 🦩 I was honoured to be invited by @adobe to Adobe MAX 2024 in Miami Beach where, frankly, I had the most incredible time and met some wonderful people. As an #AdobeExpressAmbassador I took part in the Community Summit to participate in some discussion and activities. That’s all I can tell you about that! 😄 Adobe MAX itself is huge. So much content. I drank it all in and really focused on improving my knowledge for the benefit of my fantastic clients, who I’m always conscious of leaving for a week, but the content we produce for them going forward will use all the new features and skills from my time away. The people I met there were amazing. I’ve made friends with brilliant, talented people that I can’t wait to work with in the future. I’ll try and tag some in but I won’t remember so say “hi” below. I took an exam (genuinely stressful) and am probably top 3 in the world (along with @lizmmosley and @nikkimcwilliams) 🤣 and am now an EXPERT in After Effects because I took one 90-minute Lab😝 I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to go so thank you @adobeuk and anyone involved. #gratitude #adobemax #adobe #adobemax2024
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