Shipping on-brand UI without a full-time designer

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I jumped straight in without any tutorials and got really nice results, fast.

Mack

GTM Lead, Smartschool

Smartschool is building a learning platform and moves fast. Their design capacity didn't match their shipping pace. A part-time designer, syncing once a week, was the whole pipeline.

Feedback loop bottleneck

Weekly syncs were the only moments Smartschool could give design feedback. Between those syncs, work sat idle. Iterations that should have taken hours were stretching into weeks.

The harder constraint: everything had to live in Figma. Smartschool had a real design system with its own typography, colors, and component styles. AI tools that didn't export into Figma were dead ends.

Why Banani fit

Mack, who had some experience with graphic design, opened Banani without reading any documentation and built a complete mobile sales pop-up from scratch. He iterated through several versions, correcting and refining through natural language.

The feedback loops that used to require a scheduled sync now happen in minutes.

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With Banani, we can do those feedback loops faster. We can just type what we need and get it!

Matt

Co-founder, Smartschool

Staying on-brand at speed

Smartschool fed Banani screenshots of their existing app. Banani picked up the essentials: fonts, core colors, component patterns, and kept new designs visually consistent. When they needed bolder marketing visuals that broke from the product UI, that worked too.

Banani became the only AI design tool that Smartschool kept in active use. Design cycles that took weeks now take hours.

Developers get Figma-native, flex-layout frames they can implement directly. And the team ships on-brand UI without being blocked by designer availability.