Bringing curious minds together.
How teaching Figma to a few friends grew into WeFrame: a community where designers, developers and others learn, meet and practise on real products together.
Founder and community lead
Mostly designers, plus developers and people from other fields
Early 2024, as informal online sessions
It started with a favour.
Two friends, Ali and Milad, wanted to learn Figma and asked if I could help. I said yes, then asked who else wanted to join.
Every Friday morning we met online. No formal course, no big plan: just people who wanted to learn together.
We didn’t plan to build a community.
The Friday sessions were never meant to become anything bigger. But people kept coming back, then started bringing friends. We started by learning together. We stayed because we enjoyed growing together.
- 01Learning togetherA few Figma lessons on Friday mornings, for anyone who wanted to join.
- 02Finding our peopleThe same faces kept showing up, and conversations carried on after the sessions.
- 03Growing togetherWe gave it a name, WeFrame, and started organising more on purpose.
As the group grew, so did what we did together: more sessions, values we agreed on, and later meetups and design challenges.
- What we learned together
- 10+ online sessions on Figma, portfolios, career paths and the skills to enter the job market.
- What we agreed on
- Safe spaceEmpowermentTaking risksRespect
From lessons to real work.
Many of our members were early in their careers and wanted real professional experience. Practice screens only go so far, so we started design challenges on real products.
The first was a redesign of the 30book (سیبوک) website. It got good feedback, so for the next one we looked for a sponsor with a real brief.
- 01A real briefA business shares a real page and its goals
- 02Participants’ designsMembers redesign it on their own
- 03Professional feedbackAn experienced designer judges the work
- 04A community eventResults, talks and a chance to meet
For the second challenge, Soheil Abbasi, senior innovation manager at Hamava, supported us as sponsor. Twelve participants redesigned the mentors page of Khoshfekri, a mentoring website, focusing on understanding the business, UX principles and solutions they could defend.
Results night at Zaviye.
We announced the results at Zaviye, with Soheil Abbasi. Along the way, participants worked through wireframing, the MVP process and designing for real needs.
Better together.
What started online became a community that also met in person, so people could connect beyond the sessions.
Our Telegram group.
Between sessions, the community lived here: session agendas, links, questions and plans for meetups.
April 2024. Members’ photos are blurred. Zoom to see the full screenshot.
In-person gatherings, from Ordibehesht 1403 (spring 2024) to Bahman 1403 (early 2025).
What started as a favour became a place where people kept showing up for each other: to learn, to share what they knew, and to cheer each other on.
Sometimes the best thing to create is a space for others to grow.
We learn together, experience together and grow together.