Fuwad

Kozhikode has a lot of talented people who design, but for a long time they did it alone. Few meetups, few mentors, and almost no place to ask a “silly” Figma question without a flight to Bangalore.

In June 2024 I started Friends of Figma Kozhikode to change that: a room where students, freelancers, developers and product designers learn from each other. I pitch the events, find speakers, design the posters and the flow of the day, host on stage, and follow up with everyone after.

Explaining design is half the job of a Design Advocate. I've taught the same ideas to very different rooms, from first-timers who had never seen a frame to working designers learning prototyping.

I'm a hands-on designer too: UX case studies, a Figma feature concept, and a few tools I vibe-coded with AI. They all live on my portfolio.

Teaching shouldn't stop when the room empties. I've started turning what I learn into short, practical posts on Instagram: Figma tips, design breakdowns, event recaps and career advice for people just starting out.

@fuwad.design is at 5K+ followers and growing. The audience is mostly students and early-career designers in India, so every post tries to answer one question: what can you do with this today?

Figma is the reason I started designing seriously. In 2019 it ran in my browser on a modest laptop, and I could share a link instead of a file. I've since watched the same thing happen to people around me in Kozhikode.

That's what a Design Advocate does: helps the next designer have that first moment. I already do it for free, in my city, in my own time. I'd love to do it with Figma, for designers across India and beyond: running events, teaching the tools, creating content, and carrying what designers tell me back to the people building the product.

If this sounds like a fit, I'd love to talk.