PubNow: From Figma to Publish in Under 60 Minutes

What if publishing a web article didn’t require a full-stack team and a 6-month project timeline? What if writers could go from idea to publication — with beautiful layouts, custom components, and responsive design — in under an hour?

Meet PubNow: a modern content operations platform that streamlines the journey from design to publish. Using AI automation, reusable frameworks, and headless CMS architecture, PubNow reduces content production timelines from weeks or months to minutes — without sacrificing quality, design control, or editorial voice.

The Problem: Content Publishing at a Crawl

Legacy publishing workflows are notoriously slow. In most organizations, getting from draft to web page involves handoffs across design, engineering, editorial, and QA. Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Design in Figma
• Developer handoff to build static templates
• Manual integration of content into code
• Review cycles across product and marketing
• Deployment schedules with IT or devops
• Hours lost to layout bugs, padding mismatches, and browser quirks

All told, this process initially took six weeks for the first article page — and that was after the content was written.

Enter PubNow

PubNow is a platform and methodology that collapses this entire workflow into a seamless, AI-assisted pipeline. The result?

• Design-to-live in under an hour
• Zero engineering needed for each new article
• Writers can publish directly from within the CMS
• Reusability and scalability across brands, pages, and campaigns

Who PubNow Is For

PubNow is ideal for:

• Marketing teams with frequent publishing needs
• Product orgs launching documentation and release notes
• Agencies juggling multiple client brands
• Enterprise blogs looking to modernize
• Internal comms needing design-polished messaging

How It Works

Here’s the 4-stage PubNow framework that makes it possible:

1. Figma Design → React Template

Traditionally, converting a Figma layout to code took 4–6 weeks of developer time. Every element had to be manually ported, styled, tested, and QA’d.

With PubNow, our AI-driven toolchain — powered by MYRA — extracts components, styles, and layout structures directly from Figma files and generates React-ready components. The result:

• Styles and proportions preserved
• Data-bound props mapped cleanly
• Mobile responsiveness tested automatically
• Developer time reduced to just a few hours

2. React Template → CMS Integration

Once the layout is React-enabled, PubNow connects it to Strapi, a headless CMS. Developers map content blocks like:

• Title
• Subtitle
• Teasers
• Body content
• Media (images, videos, embeds)
• CTAs, buttons, and form elements

This one-time integration ensures all future articles using this layout can be populated without any new code.

3. Writer-Ready Markdown Workflow

With the layout integrated, writers work in Markdown — a lightweight format ideal for structured content. They paste their draft directly into Strapi and apply:

• Headings & subheadings
• Pull quotes & bullet lists
• Image references
• Custom interactive blocks

They can preview how it will appear on the live site and make instant changes — without needing a designer or developer.

4. Hit Publish — Go Live

Once the content is in place, a single button does the rest. Hit PUBLISH, and within seconds, the article is:

• Live on your public website
• SEO-ready with metadata
• Responsive across devices
• Available globally

No deployment cycles. No IT queue. No production delays.

Timeline Breakdown: Before vs After

Business Benefits

The PubNow model doesn’t just save time — it unlocks strategic advantages:

🔄 Agility: Publish when the market moves, not when engineering is free
💰 Cost Reduction: Eliminate recurring dev spend on static content
✍️ Empowered Writers: Editorial teams own the full publishing process
🌐 Scalable Content: Launch articles, microsites, or landing pages in minutes
🧱 Brand Consistency: Design system baked into every layout

Why It Works

PubNow sits at the intersection of design systems, headless content management, and smart automation. Instead of treating publishing like a one-off engineering task, it builds a reusable, componentized framework for delivering great content — fast.

• Figma defines the design
• AI builds the layout
• Strapi delivers the content
• Writers hit publish

This is the future of content ops — and it’s available now.