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Community @ Dribbble

DESIGN COMMUNITY & CONTENT

An auditorium audience under blue and purple stage lighting.

IN THE TRENCHES, MEETING FOLKS & TALKING SHOP

Community building: shaking hands, kissing babies, & talking design.

I’ve been a proud Dribbble community member since 2012—and finally got to work alongside the team in 2019, as community manager and event wrangler. My gig included a wide swath of responsibilities—developing community engagement programs, honing Dribbble’s affable, approachable brand voice, teeing up regular communications, and helping facilitate Dribbble Meetups across the globe.I also got a chance to be a face representing Dribbble, including emceeing the main stage of Hang Time NYC, our 700-attendee design conference at New York’s storied Hammerstein Ballroom. I also spearheaded co-branded events, talked shop with Dribbble’s 700k+ Instagram followers in our livestreamed Dribbble Coffee Break, as well as emceeing and producing Dribbble’s virtual workshop sessions serving over 1,000 creative practitioners.

Repeating pattern of pink basketball-shaped Dribbble marks arranged diagonally on white.
City street lined with tall buildings, pedestrians, sidewalk vendors and a subway entrance.
People mingling in a theater lobby lit in deep blue.
An auditorium audience under blue and purple stage lighting.
Hand holding dark illustrated lanyards reading Seek the Ocean, beside pink Dribbble basketballs.
Blue-lit theater viewed from the stage, with an audience beneath curved balconies.
A speaker stands below a projected sponsor slide in a dark auditorium.
Social-media story screenshot with a black-and-white group photograph: When BSDS shows up to @dribbble is when you know things start getting wild.
Audience seated at long tables facing a presentation in a bright room with linear ceiling lights.
Crowded seated audience in an indoor venue with bright linear ceiling lights.
An indoor crowd beneath exposed ceiling beams.
People talking around long tables beneath linear ceiling lights and blue neon lettering.
People gather around white tables in a brightly lit room.
Overlapping green-and-cream Boston Dribbble Meetup stickers with basketball and ornamental figures.
Pink branded basketballs piled behind a table of stickers and printed merchandise.
Audience in a theater with curved balconies and blue lighting.
A speaker onstage beneath a bright Hang Time NYC graphic.
An audience seated in a theater under blue lighting.
An auditorium audience under blue stage lighting.
Toronto Dribbble Meetup poster with red and blue lettering, a skyline silhouette and September 26 date.

WRITING, EDITING, AND MAKING IMAGES

Writin’ words, too.

In addition to in-person community building, behind the scenes I also put pencil to paper crafting communications—this included weekly commentary for Dribbble’s Courtside emails, as well as contributing (usually typography-focused) featured articles for our popular blog, plus authoring community-facing platform feature announcements. Got to get my hands dirty making accompanying imagery, too, which you’ll see below.Featured articles + announcements

Flat illustration of a large yellow pencil with white sharpened wood and a black point against a cyan construction grid.
Yellow typography poster reading Rules can be broken, typographically speaking, with large black and white lettering.
Red typography graphic with three outlined dollar signs and a repeated Free column: It’s OK to use free fonts... but use your noggin!
Black Wonder! and white Wonder?! script lettering arranged in two rows on a yellow background.
Typography specimen demonstrating line length: yellow (Measure)ments title, cream italic placeholder copy and a horizontal measurement arrow on blue.
Two-panel typography specimen contrasting Ow! Hey there pal, stop horsin’ around, Laffy Taffy with Ahhhhh! Yes, so much better; vim & vigor; sharp dressed typography; let’s light this candle.
Red promotional graphic with a large white 49 and yellow dollar sign: $49, 33% off, #blessed.

DESIGN PROMPTS, WITHOUT THE POSTURING

Flex that creativity in the Weekly Warm-Up.

One of the community initiatives I had the privilege of bringing to life was Dribbble’s Weekly Warm-Up—an inclusive, low-stress design prompt for the creative community to grow in their craft, together.Design has enough cutthroat competition, right? Vapid, award-seeking, ego-stroking aplenty. In contrast, the Weekly Warm-Up is an earnest attempt to foster design simply for its own sake. No prizes, no trophies. Just the offer of encouragement to work beside your creative peers—of all skill levels—in a joint pursuit of stretching one’s creative muscles over a common prompt.To date, the Weekly Warm-Up has racked up thousands of submissions from designers across the world, and across a wide range of creative disciplines. And, yes—when time permits, I definitely try and throw my hat into the ring, which you’ll see here.

Dribbble Weekly Warm-Up prompt No. 54 on dark purple: What do you hope 2021 will bring? Design a New Year’s resolution.
A stylized monkey face within a brown circle on a pink background.
Wormtown repeated in seven rows of geometric lettering, colored yellow, orange, brown and white on a mustard background.
Black lettering reading always KINDNESS, WITHOUT HESITATION on an orange textured background.
Vigo the Carpathian typography card in cream on dark brown with a yellow border: Scourge of Carpathia, sorrow of Moldavia; cruel, despised, unholy; Death is but a door, time is but a window. I’ll be back.