Design Communities that host online/offline events

Continuum is a free, global vocational school ensuring that the next generations of digital workers stay ahead of technology that might otherwise displace them. Continuum provides free, short-form edutainment content that rewards learners in crypto and NFTs for exploring a broad range of career-focused disciplines, while allowing them to dive deeper when they discover a subject they enjoy.

Humanitarian Designers is an NGO and a community that tries to bridge the gap between designers and the humanitarian sector.

A space for all artists and creators enthusiastic about 3D art, animations, and AR. Naomi app for iPad.

Seoul Startups is an English-speaking startup community for expats and Koreans in Seoul. We are a community of designers, developers, marketers and entrepreneurs in Korea. Besides sharing and discussing ideas, work, culture, language and integration to the market and life in Korea, we also regularly hold community events and activities to create a stronger entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Design Buddies is an inclusive design community where all designers belong. We have online workshops, talks with industry leaders, mentors, clubs, portfolio reviews, resource sharing, meetups, and more. Learn more: https://designbuddies.community

We make online courses that help creative people stand out. Learn how to code, design, and manage projects among our global community!

A home for young developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. We offer mentorship, podcast episodes, hackathons, free access to $500k in discounts to software and co-working spaces, and more.

A community where people can improve their prototyping skills together, and discuss anything related to motion/interaction design and prototyping.

Tens of millions of people look for design inspiration and feedback on Dribbble. We help players like you share small screenshots (shots) to show off your current projects, boost your portfolio, and love what you do—no matter what kind of creative professional you are.

Hexagon is a non-profit aimed to empower and support womxn and non-binary folx in UX through community, events, and mentorship.

Path Unbound is a design school democratizing creative education. We have a growing, active and vibrant Discord community for all design students who want to connect, get feedback on projects, stay updated to the latest design events, software discounts and job posts.

The Maze Community is a place for UX Designers, Researchers, and Product people to connect over professional development, and industry content, whether in a live event, or through asynchronous discussions. Home to over 3000 members, the Maze Community is a great opportunity to engage with folks who are diverse in experience, role, and professional/personal background from all over the world.

Surround yourself with like-minded graphic designers, access top-notch courses, Q&As, guest speakers, and resources to up your design game. With over 130,000 members in our Facebook community, we know the power of surrounding yourself with fellow creatives. Don't miss this opportunity to learn and grow with us!

BABD exists to provide meaningful community to Black design professionals who want to support each other’s growth and development. We provide this via exclusive access to intimate groups called Squads which are the core BABD experience. Squads are intimate groups of 4-5 members representing a range of experience and design roles. Squad members share their goals, challenges, and intentions, and they commit to helping each other thrive. It’s not about networking and hustle — it’s about growth that unfolds in balanced and focused ways, and creating true friendships within reciprocal community. Each Squad is together for one quarter (three months) and they meet twice-monthly.

makerspace is the public town square for student developers, founders, creators, designers, hackers and everyone else to learn, build and share together.

The Delta CX "Low Ego Action Heroes" community is all about free peer and expert help, support, and advice. We focus on CX and UX research, content, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, testing, and visual design. We also have channels for service design, strategy, leadership, DEI, and accessibility. DeltaCX also has a discord server found at https://deltacx.link/discord.

A Discord server where UX/UI designers can improve their ProtoPie skills together and discuss anything prototyping and motion design.

We're a community focused on education through application. We bring together people with an interest in Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Frontend Development, UX Design and build projects together in teams focused on shipping our products in short periods of time.

Find the group for you and gain access to online meetups, group chats, and a great community. Friends of Figma and many of its groups have their own Slack channel.

The Black UX Austin Slack is a closed space for people of African ancestry (who may identify as Black) to meet other Black user experience professionals in Austin, build a community and thriving network, ask other Black professionals for job advice and feedback, gain tips for surviving while Black in Austin, and talk with other Black people in Austin.

Designer Hangout is a dedicated, invite-only network of UX designers and researchers who discuss trends, give advice, share stories, uncover insights, surface opportunities, and connect in-person. As a UX practitioner, Designer Hangout is your "secret weapon" to progressing your career and accomplishing your life goals. Together, we’re creating the World's most reliable brain trust for UX designers in a fast-paced age.

The goal of this group is to enable all members to grow. To remain in this group each member must contribute tangible value to the group. Members who join this group to promote their business and to scrape sales contacts and who do not contribute will be removed and blocked. You can contribute by asking your relevant contacts to join and grow the group, by contributing useful comments and posts to the discussion, and by financially sponsoring group activities that tangibly benefit all group members.

Welcome to a new international design community. Design Education is a safe space to swap and share knowledge, experiences, research, ideas and insights – in order to improve the conditions for learning design at school, university and at work. The basic rule of thumb is that everyone interested and working with design education is welcome. You don’t need to have the title, but instead are interested in learning and contributing within the area of education in the context of design. Please share the community with others you think would like it.