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Claude Design

• tzury 6mo ago
  Anthropic’s roadmap is widely underappreciated; it is the company defining AI productivity today.
• max_streese 6mo ago
  One thing I am wondering: How much logic (in the programming sense) is there in this product and how much of it is „just“ a lean wrapper around the LLM?
• wg0 6mo ago
  How dangerous is this eh?
• howdareme 6mo ago
  Does anyone know how they turn html to enable powerpoints so seamlessly?
• albert_e 6mo ago
  is this the Figma/Canva/Powerpoint/Keynote killer?
  • Boss0565 6mo ago
    Considering Canva collaborated with them, no?
    • Sol- 6mo ago
      Maybe a collaboration with a metaphorical gun to your head.
      • frankdenbow 6mo ago
        Canva has more expansive editing tools but I agree, it seems like a frenemies situation.
      • svnt 6mo ago
        Or one from a place of unfounded hubris.
    • netdevphoenix 6mo ago
      IBM also collaborated with Microsoft for the OS and we know how that ended.
  • strickjb9 6mo ago
    First NanoBanana came for the artists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not an artist. Then Claude came for the designers with Claude Design, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a designer. ...
    • yard2010 6mo ago
      Great Niemöller paraphrase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
    • coffeebeqn 6mo ago
      Claude code also came for us. Is anything sacred? Middle management?
  • alpb 6mo ago
    This largely appears to be a HTML generator at its core, not necessarily what Figma does with layers/canvases etc. There's no collaborative nature to it either. It feels like a lightly designed product that moves claude CLI to their backend, generates the HTMLs and renders them in browser on claude.ai website for you. Sure, it accepts your design system as an input from you or imports from your repo, but you could feed the same into claude CLI as well? I'm curious what exactly it gives besides having claude CLI + prompting it well with your design system + skills.
    • diatone 6mo ago
      Yep agree it looks like it’s taking the existing generated artefact, parameterising it within an inch of its life, exposing a pseudo WYSIWYG for the parameters and calling it a day with a few export options. Not a huge leap from what they’ve got already but it’s a clever adjacent step for sure. Same product new chrome.
    • weatherfun 6mo ago
      The IBM/Microsoft analogy is a classic. It’s always fascinating to watch these 'frenemy' dynamics play out. In these cases, the one who owns the direct interface with the end-user usually wins the long game, while the 'infrastructure' partner risks becoming just another utility. Will be interesting to see if Canva can maintain its identity or just become a shell for Claude's output.
• PullJosh 6mo ago
  I like their emphasis on quickly prototyping many variations of a design. That seems useful, even for experienced designers.
  • rvz 6mo ago
    Useful enough to replace Figma.
• ej88 6mo ago
  This is cool! Seems like Claude is actually building almost like a layered Figma wireframe that you can do fine grained adjustments afterwards (e.g. adjust font size). Interesting that Canva provided a quote of support. I'm not familiar with the differentiation, but it seems like this will directly siphon customers from Canva, right?
  • npilk 6mo ago
    There's an "export to Canva" button in Claude Design, so perhaps they're hoping this will be another entry point for new users, or that they'll be able to "lock in" as the default design software for Claude users.
    • dannyw 6mo ago
      (I lead AI Products at Canva :) Our mission is to empower the world to design, and we believe in making Canva available in every place where ideas begin. Being the most interoperable platform creates mutually better products, more value for community, and more value and growth for our company. We've been working closely with Anthropic for many years, and we see this as complementary. Our MCP, integrations, and plugins have already introduced millions of new users to the full power of Canva, and we're excited to continue doubling down here.
• hmokiguess 6mo ago
  Who’s the end user for this? I struggle to relate but then again I also don’t use Figma so I may not be the target demographic I have been doing fine just instructing Claude code to use Tailwind and reference design documents
  • dbbk 6mo ago
    "Who's the end user for this?" obviously people who use figma
  • recitedropper 6mo ago
    Seems to me like Anthropic is desperately trying to find as many product-market fits as possible before they IPO. They're reaching a chaotic weekly release cadence--each new product chockful of unclear, overlapping capability with their previous. Combine that with the obvious hackernews manipulation that somehow gets each and every haphazard release instantly to the top, and you can see they're starting to feel some real heat.
    • johnfn 6mo ago
      It’s interesting to claim that because everything they do goes to the top on hacker news that they must be in trouble. I haven’t heard that particular chain of effect before.
      • recitedropper 6mo ago
        Feeling some heat != in trouble. Just that the pressure cooker is turning to a higher temp. But, I'll gladly admit that I am bias: I'm tired of seeing blatant astroturfing by a company whose main marketing tactic is to play on societal fear, while simultaneously employing safety theatre to look like the "good guys". So take my opinion with a grain of salt :)
        • cruffle_duffle 6mo ago
          It could also be that this is an exciting new, fast changing technology that happens to directly overlap and significantly impact the core audience of the site. I don’t think any form of maliciousness or secret astroturfing is required at all. This stuff has changed a ton of what it means to exist in this whole “tech space”. The entire software development lifecycle got put into a stick blender and is in the process of getting mixed up in new and unusual ways. It’s super cool. I haven’t been this excited about our industry since way back when the universe was just starting to get onto dialup and I grabbed my very first mp3 or wrote my first shitty program in VB or when AJAX was just entering the universe. I think a lot of people forgot how fast shit changes in this industry and how learning new things is one of the most important skills to being successful. Everything changes all the time. This is a tech site called hacker news. Where else would something like this be constantly discussed?
• mikeaskew4 6mo ago
  Thumbs down. Great design is original thought. AI is wholly incapable of that. Go ahead and roast me.
  • dumfries 6mo ago
    As if original thought occurs out of thin air. AI is definitely capable to take aspects of design and apply it elsewhere.
  • freedomben 6mo ago
    > Great design is original thought I don't agree. For novel use cases, yes there's some truth to that. But consistency is huge in a UX. If basic controls work well for a situation, they should be used. Designers should not be getting "creative" or "original" for those sorts of things.
    • criddell 6mo ago
      I don't think you are really disagreeing. I'd guess mikeaskew4 would include the constraints of following platform conventions / HIGs and using native widgets for any GUI. Those constraints do not preclude original thought.
  • mupuff1234 6mo ago
    Most applications just need good enough design.
  • garrickvanburen 6mo ago
    My default position: If an LLM can create it, we probably don't actually need it.
    • OhioMan2943 6mo ago
      If AI can create it- it's probably already been created and thought of before?
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• cdrnsf 6mo ago
  Now I can visualize my bloated shadcn + Tailwind UI in advance.
• perryizgr8 6mo ago
  Why doesn't it have an "Export to Figma" button?
• sbszllr 6mo ago
  It's interesting how OpenAI and Anthropic effectively mass dumped a bunch of similar features in the last two days. I wonder what other features they're cooking right now.
  • irishcoffee 6mo ago
    I think that's the wrong question. What kind of shadow spy network must exist around all these companies such that they all happen to be working on the same features at the same time.
    • sbszllr 6mo ago
      It's possible and even likely there's industrial espionage going on. But imo, you don't need that. I've worked in cutting edge industries, and even when you don't know what your competition is doing, there are usually only so many logical next steps.
      • xpe 6mo ago
        This. / Who remembers the "birth" of crowdfunding? Why did so much seem to happen at all once? The most likely explanation imo is that it was "in the air" -- we share culture and ideas. These ideas don't have to be stolen to co-occur... quite the opposite.
    • embedding-shape 6mo ago
      > What kind of shadow spy network must exist around all these companies such that they all happen to be working on the same features at the same time. Stuff like that happened even before the invention of the telephone, humans within the same geographic location is even more predicable, so surely this shouldn't come as a surprise.
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• namanyayg 6mo ago
  The Anthropic team looks to be eating all the usecases and application layer. I personally know of many figma + AI startups that are going to feel shaken up with this launch. Anthropic has distribution on their side, their engineers are excellent (I have ran with them across the ggb in the past and they work 12 hours plus a day regularly.) I think what actually might be slowing them down is the public releases and pr lol, not ideas or execution
  • subscribed 6mo ago
    12+ hours a day regularly? What a toxic workplace :/
    • Sol- 6mo ago
      They are all very wealthy, or are about to be at the IPO. Seems like a worthwhile tradeoff. And money aside, it is certainly one of the most exciting companies in the world to work for.
      • Noumenon72 6mo ago
        It's a horseshoe where the worst companies make you work 12 hours and the best companies make you want to work 12 hours.
      • namanyayg 6mo ago
        Exactly the engineers I've talked to are all so EXCITED
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    • H8crilA 6mo ago
      Didn't know that anyone needed to hear that, but here it is: "hot" companies often have such workdays, especially pre-IPO and with such a fast growth.
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• ljm 6mo ago
  I reckon something like this has only been possible to develop because of how homogenous the internet has become in terms of design ever since the glass effect and drop-shadows took over in Web 2.0 and Twitter Bootstrap entered the scene. You'll get a competent UI with little effort but nothing truly unique or mind-blowing. Impressive technology, but that old skool artisanal weirdness of yore only becomes more valuable and nostalgic.
  • quacked 6mo ago
    I hate it so much. Ah, your website/app/program is comprised of rounded-corner cards in four colors (color/pale color/white/grey), with a dark theme. Your clickable text isn't visually distinguishable from your non-clickable text. All of your logos are sans-serif SVGs. Your settings and action menus are split across four different primary hidden locations. Your scroll bars disappear even when there's text hidden offscreen. You try to guess what I want to click on by showing a series of competing horizontally-organized pills over the top of the content instead of just giving me a consistent set of action buttons. AI companies: "good news, everyone! We've automated all those steps so they're even easier to generate!" I think the same thing is happening in physical construction. Ah, I see you've designed a new box with four primary color tones and slightly offset vertical lines to break up the windows.
    • Maxion 6mo ago
      This aestethic is useful though for SaaS apps and the like that know themselves to be generic.
    • rob 6mo ago
      What's great is I can take what you just said now and use it as context when generating my new DESIGN.md system and making sure it doesn't look like any of the other stuff. Thank you! Superpowers will show me all the options in their built-in visual companion when brainstorming. :)
      • quacked 6mo ago
        I don't know, I looked at their demo video and it was tile/cards all over the place. I haven't seen an old-fashioned user interface like the kind we saw before 2020 in ages.
• atonse 6mo ago
  I've been spending the last two days building a large number of mockups for a new product. Literally the last two days. I'm wondering how i can CONTINUE that in this design thing, can i import something? Because they show it the other way... you can start and edit, and then export to claude code. Until then, I guess it's back to just using CC
  • coder543 6mo ago
    From the page: > Import from anywhere. Start from a text prompt, upload images and documents (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX), or point Claude at your codebase. You can also use the web capture tool to grab elements directly from your website so prototypes look like the real product.
    • atonse 6mo ago
      Thank you, I should RTFA next time.
• jmkni 6mo ago
  Unfortunate that linking code from your computer doesn't work with Firefox Very interesting though
• ossa-ma 6mo ago
  The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design [EDIT], for a few reasons: - The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive. An AI model is incapable of that, it's uninspired, it will absolutely converge to the norm and homogeneity (you see it everywhere now, just scroll on ShowHN and take a look at the UIs) and produce the safest design that appeals to its understanding of the ideal user. - Good designers will reject this, they prefer to be hands-on and draw from multiple sources of inspiration which is what Figma boards and Canva is good for, also mainly for cross-collaboration. If you've seen how quickly a great design engineer can prototype you'll know that "speed" they advertise in this video is not worth the tradeoff. - Creatives typically have a very very very high aversion to AI. - Non-designers will not see a purpose for this tool, basic design can already be done through Claude Code and Claude.ai, I fail to see what this could offer unless they leverage a model that is more creative and unique by default (you can not prompt/context/harness engineer creativity believe me I've tried). - Design is a lot more than just UI. Tools like this ignore so many other important aspects like: motion, typography, images, weight, whitespace, sound, feel.
  • azan_ 6mo ago
    > The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive. I guess that kind of thinking got us liquid glass - which everyone hates.
    • ValentineC 6mo ago
      > I guess that kind of thinking got us liquid glass - which everyone hates. Except, ironically enough, enough people involved with both macOS and iOS at Apple didn't hate it enough — until it made it to launch. Either there's a massive hierarchy issue there, or Apple is starting to suffer from groupthink that negatively affects a lot of their customers' experiences.
  • gpt5 6mo ago
    > The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive Designing a user inteface involves thousands of small decisions. When trading off pros/cons for each of these decisions, in 99% of the cases, the right answer is ‘optimize familiarity. That’s why Android and iOS look the same, and why the small differences between them are where contention happen. If you adopt existing patterns, your users would be instantly familiar with your app, and the design will not get in their way.
• hudo 6mo ago
  404 Page not found when clicking on their link https://claude.ai/design https://claude.ai/design at the end of the article! Vibe coding to prod, gone wrong?
  • anonfunction 6mo ago
    Fourth thing in a row they've announced that I wanted to try and couldn't. Previous comment with the prior 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47794419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47794419
  • baal80spam 6mo ago
    Perfect, that's CC design for you :-)
  • alpb 6mo ago
    It's rolling out progressively throughout the day.
  • mpeg 6mo ago
    It's rolling out progressively, it works for me – it actually seems very polished, the examples are really good; and it lets you create your design system from your codebase
  • sunnybeetroot 6mo ago
    It’s working now, try it again.
• anonfunction 6mo ago
  Start designing at claude.ai/design. That link is redirecting me to https://claude.ai/404 https://claude.ai/404, anyone else?
  • addandsubtract 6mo ago
    It works for me. Check again?
  • ngoquocdat 6mo ago
    Have same issue, it redirect to https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2Fdesign https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2Fdesign then back and redirect to https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2Fdesign https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2Fdesign again, looping...
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• jansan 6mo ago
  Well, after having high expectations from watching the intro the actual result of a simple prompt "Bear on a bicycle" is very underwhelming. Maybe AI is not good at everything, yet.
• firefoxd 6mo ago
  I've been using stich from Gemini, and just plain zAi for helping redesign my website. You can use the generated code to copy and paste the design to fit your own templates, but that's a pain. Unless you are ok with using tailwind and the dozen or so classes on every element and don't want to edit anything. What I found valuable is the design.md that was produced. It's a guide for building each component. So using these tools becomes akin to PSD to html we used do. At least that's when I find them most effective.
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• lagrange77 6mo ago
  And another step toward a world, where product managers/owners/whatever and other boring people can generate what they once needed creative, passionate and skilled people for. Go ahead, its just the natural evolution of extreme capitalism.
• ramathornn 6mo ago
  It's funny seeing the Co-founder of Canva commending the product. Yikes! This app is pretty slick, this will funnel a huge number of customers away from Figma + Canva imo.
  • maerF0x0 6mo ago
    you missed that there's an export to canva button. It will funnel users _to_ Canva.
    • ramathornn 6mo ago
      Why would they need to back to Canva? If teams are working within claude already I think they will just offboard canva/figma tasks into claude.
      • ativzzz 6mo ago
        Non designers will vibe-design a prototype with claude, export it to canva and let the designers finish it up If code doesn't go this direction soon, I'd be surprised. PM builds a prototype with claude, or designer designs something in figma/canva - claude vibe codes 70% of the solution using your company's frameworks and design system, then hands it off to the developer who finishes it and productionizes it
        • addandsubtract 6mo ago
          Developers (and designers) need to be involved in the prompting phase. Handing off half-assed designs and code is just a recipe for disaster.
      • mvdtnz 6mo ago
        This is like claiming that Claude Code will siphon users away from their editors. Just like with code, AI will give you something to start with, but it's still going to require tweaking and manual input.
• lmeyerov 6mo ago
  When Anthropic's CPO left Figma's board this week, that was my first question . Oof.
  • SpyCoder77 6mo ago
    Yeah, I saw that too https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-cpo-leaves-figmas-board-after-reports-he-will-offer-a-competing-product/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-cpo-leaves-figma...
• GenerWork 6mo ago
  If you look at Figmas stock price, it started falling right at 11 AM as this news was released. Anyways, this is 100% a shot at Figma, but also catching Lovable in the crossfire. If anybody from Anthropic is reading this, if you keep developing this with features in Figma and other design tools, you'll have a major hit on your hands.
  • ex-aws-dude 6mo ago
    Isn't this something Figma could easily integrate? Then you'd have the best of both worlds
    • GenerWork 6mo ago
      You already can use Claude Code with Figma. This is looking more like a Figma competitor than just Claude Code.
    • luckylion 6mo ago
      figma has figma make to do these things, and it's much worse. It can only generate react code, even if you ask it not to. claude design worked great on the first attempt for me, miles ahead of what figma make does.
  • Bilal_io 6mo ago
    The folks at Wall Street do not understand this does not replace Figma. Figma is targeted towards designers who create thoughtful design systems and cohesive UIs and who don't code, while this is targeted towards vibe coders who can't design. Two different circles that intersect to some level. But like you said, if anthropic adds the tools in Figma, only then they can can take customers from Figma IMO.
    • RigelKentaurus 6mo ago
      Why can't it replace Figma? Seems like Figma is a thin UI layer on top of Claude Design.
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• psadri 6mo ago
  What’s interesting here is that with AI, all our interfaces should evolve away from previous generation rigid forms / buttons / tables etc. towards something more fluid / dynamic / “natural”. Yet all the AI coding is geared towards producing more of the former.
  • jayd16 6mo ago
    Why would a remix engine move away from what it was trained on? Why would we want to move away from hard fought UX design lessons? Dynamic and fluid UX is infuriating.
  • cmrx64 6mo ago
    i think of them as tiers of expertise— need to master the basics of structure and form before the robot has the learned representations to competently model user interactions with more fluid instantiations (by downprojecting into the overlearned fixed-semantics)
  • xpct 6mo ago
    Do you have examples of "natural" UI that you like?
    • apt-apt-apt-apt 6mo ago
      Mind-reading brain implants. That's what he wants.
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    • psadri 6mo ago
      Most of the software we interact with is at the end of the day some db tables, queries to read/write, and some ui to read/write. There have been so many times I wished I could just do my own db joins on the underlying db to get the views I wanted. But I can’t - because the app has pre-defined ui/query paths. With AI, I should be able to ask for things the product designers didn’t anticipate or left out and the system could query, create ui on the fly, etc…
• firasd 6mo ago
  This seems a bit fiddly... I gave it the ChatGPT iframe html for my (not yet released) Liveclip MCP server that's like tables [https://x.com/firasd/status/2039926453408776649 https://x.com/firasd/status/2039926453408776649]. And I had this chat in the sidebar and it popped up some questions in a form > do you see our current html Hi-fi design Interactive prototype html > do you see our current html Hi-fi design Interactive prototype html ● Claude Yes — I can see your html/ folder. It has 7 files: files-list.html math-result.html rows-view.html table-view.html text-editor-doc-view.html trending-topics.html unique-result.html Want me to open them up and take a look at what's in there? And what would you like to do — polish them, turn them into an interactive prototype, build something new on top, or something else? > yeah in table view i'm thinking about how to deal with cells that may be big. i guess we want to do something different than excel or sheets in that auto expand rows with cells that contain big values. we can show like the first -- what does twitter show, 280? so we can show 280 chars and then [...] ● Let me take a look at the current table view to understand what we're working with. Got it — I see the current table view. Right now every cell is clamped to max-width:220px with white-space:nowrap and text-overflow:ellipsis, so long values just get cut off at whatever ~30 chars fits the column. You're thinking about the opposite end: what if a cell genuinely holds 2,000 chars of text? Neither pure clip nor Excel-style row expansion is quite right. Before I start sketching, a few quick questions so I don't guess wrong: > Questions answered: - truncation_threshold: ~280 chars (new tweet) - expansion_ux: nothing right now -- it's not interactive - row_height_policy: Grow freely like Notion/Airtable - content_types: Not sure yet - indicator_style: [...] at the end of the text - newlines: Render them (row grows) - copy_affordance: no interaction right now - column_width: Fixed width, all columns equal - variation_count: 2 variations - aesthetic_direction: Same bones, but let you push it a bit ● Got it — so: non-interactive, rows can grow freely, 280-char cap with [...], newlines render, same bones but push it a bit, 2 variations. Let me sketch this out. Set up variations file with two table treatments V1: Notion/Airtable-style free-grow with [...] cap V2: pushed aesthetic variant Wire both to the same sample data w/ long cells Let me peek at a couple of the sibling files so the variations stay in-family with the rest of the widget set. Good — now I have the visual family. The shared vocabulary across widgets: #f5f5f3 page, #fff card, #d0d0cc borders, #f0f0ec headers System font, 12–14px Subtle alternating row tints, no drop shadows, flat corners Color used sparingly; #666 for secondary text My plan for the two variations (side-by-side in a canvas so you can compare on the same rows): V1 — "Notion-ish, stay in family" Keep current palette, borders, zebra striping Rows grow vertically as needed; white-space: pre-wrap so newlines render Cap each cell at 280 chars; if longer, slice to 280 + […] inline Same fixed column widths, everything else identical V2 — "Same bones, pushed" Tightens the grid (hairline borders instead of panels, more whitespace, denser typography) Column rail with sticky row numbers Soft fade on the bottom of ultra-tall cells instead of mid-text […] when content is really long (hybrid: char cap + visual) Monospaced tabular digits for row numbers; type column ⌾ / ▤ markers subtly hinting content type; column width slightly wider for breathing room Let me build it. Now let me build the two variations. I'll set up realistic sample data with a mix of short values, tweet-length values, long-long values, and ones with newlines, so the behaviors are visible. Now the two table components. Clean. Two variations on the canvas, both rendering the same 7 rows so you can compare directly: V1 — in-family. Your current widget, with white-space: pre-wrap so rows grow, newlines render, and a soft grey […] appended when a cell goes past 280 chars. Row 3's summary (double-long prose) and row 4's URL show the cap. V2 — same bones, pushed. Hairline borders instead of filled header panels, monospaced tabular row gutter, column letters as uppercased small-caps above the header names row, tighter typographic rhythm, cells > 280 → […] legend in the footer. Row 7 shows how newlines render naturally. Both slice at the nearest word boundary when one is within ~40 chars of the 280 cap, otherwise hard-cut — so […] never lands mid-word. A couple of things worth calling out, not changed: 280 is pretty generous when a row has multiple long cells side-by-side — row 3 is ~2 cells × 280 = a very tall row. If that ends up being painful in real usage, dropping to ~180 or adding a per-row max-height with fade might be worth a follow-up. Neither variation is interactive per your answer; there's no click-to-expand, hover, or copy. Easy to bolt on later. Fork verifier agent Both variations are live on the canvas. Let me know which direction feels right and I'll fold it back into html/table-view.html." ----- It's basically similar to their Artifacts system in a harness I guess
• m_w_ 6mo ago
  Really interesting response to Google's Stitch - and seemingly a better alternative given some of the features shown in the video. If everything actually works at least close to how it's advertised, this'll be useful. I'm sure it's no Dieter Rams, but it wouldn't be a surprise if it's already better than many devs at design work.
• causal 6mo ago
  Will give it a try but my experience with Claude and browser use so far is that it’s extremely lazy: it rarely notices or cares when something doesn’t look right, it needs lots of pointing out “hey you ignored that broken render” etc
• devmor 6mo ago
  This stuff is the antithesis of what I want to see AI used for. Deriving a bland average of creativity is the saddest thing you could do. I don’t even enjoy design and I find this offensive.
  • jonlucc 6mo ago
    Claude, add a bit of whimsy to this design.
• jayd16 6mo ago
  So how much of this is fully generated vs AI running through all the knobs on template widgets? Is that globe made from whole cloth or is there a bespoke "telecom globe" widget that it dropped in? Could I ask for mock up of molecules with the same fidelity of knobs, down to nucleus size and such?
  • mpeg 6mo ago
    It's generated, when you try it you can see this is mostly a harness around claude opus 4.7 that helps it create a good design plan, it also supports asking you questions as it goes along, letting you review and feedback on mockups, etc, but ultimately if you look at what it's generating as it does it – it's just code
    • jayd16 6mo ago
      "Its just code" is meaningless to me. Is the code its generating using mostly well known widgets with predefined knobs, or is every element completely custom and the knobs are created on the spot with slightly different naming and function every time? I actually think I would prefer the more boring "it composes well known widgets" because then there's a chance I could just use this to generate a presentation layer and integrate it instead of new blobs of code I need to essentially reverse engineer or remake.
      • mpeg 6mo ago
        Depends of what you prompt it... if you tell it to use react and shadcn, it will use that.
    • sunnybeetroot 6mo ago
      Which doesn’t work for a native iOS app, so it’s HTML rendering something that would then be rewritten in iOS I guess.
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• martinald 6mo ago
  Interesting! I wrote this approach up (more or less - extract design system -> make templates -> export) some time ago and I've found it unbelievably powerful: https://martinalderson.com/posts/how-to-make-great-looking-consistent-reports-with-claude-code-cowork-codex/ https://martinalderson.com/posts/how-to-make-great-looking-c.... I use it all day every day with Claude Code. I sometimes wonder past code if this has had the biggest impact on my day to day productivity, either having to make do with semi-bad looking reports or have a designer design them (which is slow). Sort of feel sorry for Figma in a way though, given all the "partnerships" (highlighting their MCPs) and case studies they've done with Anthropic and then they release this. I note there isn't a testimonial from them this time. I'm surprised how poorly Figma have used "AI" in general - given they were the "gold standard" in taking emerging technologies (WASM etc) and making an incredible product. The Figma Make thing was incredibly underwhelming, I managed to extract the system prompt out and it's basically just Gemini 3 Pro with a design prompt. Perhaps the original team has left? They are extremely exposed imo. While all the UI/UX designers will continue using it for the forseeable, I strongly suspect a lot of their (A/M)RR was coming from extra seats for PMs, developers, etc to view and export and do commenting on the files - not core designer usage. I think a lot of this just won't happen on Figma as much.
  • coffeebeqn 6mo ago
    I think you hit the nail on the head - I bet Adobe and Figma get most of their sold seats from people who don’t really need the full tool and are basically just using it as a viewer and to make very small adjustments or notes
  • whywhywhywhy 6mo ago
    >I strongly suspect a lot of their (A/M)RR was coming from extra seats for PMs, developers, etc their seats system has always been brutal it’s extremely easy to have the seats balloon if you’re not careful and if they’re yearly there is only a 30 day window a year where you can cancel them when the banner to do so appears.
  • aurareturn 6mo ago
    I tried Figma again after a few years expecting that they'd surely have a tool that lets me describe a design and then it generates a Figma design file. Nope. Figma Make first renders an HTML/React app with your design. Then you could convert to a Figma design file if you have a pro plan. Extremely underwhelming. There's hardly any difference between using Figma and just designing it with Codex and Claude Code. And now, Claude Design seems to get it right.
• K0IN 6mo ago
  this might be a game changer (for show dont tell), and fast itterations in design meetings, to show what your thinking of.
• MagicMoonlight 6mo ago
  Interestingly, Claude Design has its own completely separate usage bar.
  • sidrag22 6mo ago
    that usage page is getting really cluttered, really fast. Two months ago, mine was simply a 5 hour usage window, and the extra usage portion. Now its 5 Hour usage, Weekly Usage, Claude Design, Daily Routine Runs, and the Extra Usage portion...
  • skwashd 6mo ago
    I'd be pretty annoyed if it was burning my Claude Code quota. So far it's burned through 45% my design quota. On a positive note, I finally have my fonts rendering. I'm still waiting for it to figure out how it mangled the SVG versions of my logo. I've watched it trying a lot of stuff for 20 minutes and now I've got something that's not my logo.
• young_mete 6mo ago
  Will be taking this for a spin imminently. What seems to be very unique here vs other canvas tools are the generative UI controls. If you’re confused about why everyone is shipping their own canvas tool - this is what I wrote when I reviewed Stitch from Google in my newsletter: “every SOTA (State-of-the-Art) model can already do this. Give it a prompt, it'll spit out an HTML design. Ask for 10 responsive variations, you'll get them. Stitch is a Ul and context harness on top of Gemini, in the same way Claude Code is a harness on top of Claude's models. This means every Al lab will likely ship their own version, and they'll all interoperate because at the end of the day it's all HTML and markdown.” More generally, this is a competition of where the product development work starts and lives. The business value will accrue to those who become a destination, not a plugin. AI can now power a new sort of tool that supports the entire process (not just coding or just design). So there’s no reason for Anthropic or any other lab to give that up to another tool.
• quotemstr 6mo ago
  Postmodernists are annoying because they are right about design. "Taste", aesthetics, design, vibes they're all as socially-constructed and post-truth as that annoying sophomore says everything is. The world is design is an isekai manga in which Derrida's delusions are the rules of physics. It's weird. Part of this weirdness is the continual relativism of design. A taste-meme is good or cringe only relative to the prevailing social environment, never itself. An AI can never do "design", properly understood, because design is the work done by a reluctance motor, spinning endlessly in a Sysphean quest to align itself with a moving magnetic field and producing torque by side effect. All efforts like this can do is capture the field alignment at an instant in time. It cannot do work. It cannot produce motion, not as long as its weights are as fixed as the field lines of a neodymium magnet. The instant AI design is good, it becomes bad through the act of becoming good. Producing work through motion of taste may be one of the last human endeavors to be absorbed.
  • xpct 6mo ago
    I agree with what you're saying, but I imagine products like this one aren't aimed at replacing this. LLMs are partially a dashboard business, and this is just one tool to aim at your boring business data
  • pembrook 6mo ago
    Interesting take and I pretty much agree (also, I find it funny that now the only interesting comments on HN are all found at the bottom). However, there is of course a raw mechanical side to design that comes more into play on practical applications like a software UI vs. pure play memes/vibes like branding or a landing page. Think hierarchy, leading, kerning, scale, contrast, balance, etc. These things remain constant throughout trend cycles and can absolutely get you half way there. Then aesthetic memes can be sprinkled on top by a human to make people believe "this feels cool."
  • hellohello2 6mo ago
    Interesting take. What do you think of using AI exploitatively? I have no doubt it can easily generate drafts or copy the style of one thing onto another, letting us rapidly try out ideas.
• giancarlostoro 6mo ago
  We used to have RAD based IDE's and now I guess with AI we're going full circle, I'm curious how their mobile thing works, if its just React Native based or what.
• savanpatel 6mo ago
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• LetsGetTechnicl 6mo ago
  Oh great more slop
• reluctant_dev 6mo ago
  Maybe I am using it wrong but it feels much closer to Lovable than Figma. I was expecting this to feel like the two products combined. Certainly better than Lovable though, but a little disappointing.
• RickS 6mo ago
  lmao at the idea of figma integrations, categorically. I don't ever want to look at figma again in my life. figma is what people used to ideate quickly because they couldn't build directly in the browser. we can now ideate quickly while working directly in the browser. figma's entire raison d'etre is dinosaur tier over. With that said, this seems like it's just claude code + simplified devtools in a container? Will need to spend more time with it to see how EG commenting influences things, but 5 minutes in, this seems like it's needless formalization on top of how I already used claude for deisgn
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• aanet 6mo ago
  So.. this is why Anthropic CPO left the board of Figma
• xnx 6mo ago
  The faster we commodify design the faster we can get back to some sane consistent normal interfaces. Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems". Imagine if a designer were hired to custom design the lightswitches in every building. We need to get back to off-the-shelf interfaces and stop wasting smart people's time reinventing UI widgets.
  • cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
    Designers are hired to make sure those light switches are put in the right place. Much of the time, it's pretty obvious. But sometimes...
  • decidu0us9034 6mo ago
    I think a big part of the reason AI is so divisive and only declining in popularity, is because much of the discourse is shaped by mid to senior career SWEs who fantasize about putting everyone who's not a mid to senior career SWE out of work. People who want to replace everything we like with streamlined slop and want everyone we love struggling to get by. Everyone is inessential except the guy who just sits there telling Claude "can confirm, looks good ship it" who of course isn't deserving of even a paycut
    • xnx 6mo ago
      Is AI declining in popularity? There are some surveys where people say they don't like AI, but datacenter construction and utilization tell a very different story.
  • whatever1616 6mo ago
    > Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems". Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ? Let me remind you they weren't always tech giants, what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing.
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• htrp 6mo ago
  Reminder that Claude's own AI design skill (which is probably incorporated directly into this product) says things like >NEVER use generic AI-generated aesthetics like overused font families (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system fonts), cliched color schemes (particularly purple gradients on white backgrounds), predictable layouts and component patterns, and cookie-cutter design that lacks context-specific character. > Interpret creatively and make unexpected choices that feel genuinely designed for the context. No design should be the same. Vary between light and dark themes, different fonts, different aesthetics. NEVER converge on common choices (Space Grotesk, for example) across generations. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/frontend-design/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...
• gnegggh 6mo ago
  no info regarding privacy and data if you connect your repo?
• bryabaek 6mo ago
  such a cheerful background music to celebrate the death of lovable, bolt.new, figma LOL
• maerF0x0 6mo ago
  > voice, video, shaders, 3D and built-in AI. As someone who's thinking about side project-ing a game, this caught my eye. I am curious to explore what Claude can yolo in terms of a retro style indie game... One who's audience might only be me.
• digitalShield 6mo ago
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• lmf4lol 6mo ago
  the tech is really cool. its amazing. but i freaking hate this future
• taylorlapeyre 6mo ago
  It really feels like Anthropic's product area is extremely overextended at this point. If they want to extend themselves horizontally in an unlimited fashion, they will need unlimited focus, and agents can't supply that. Things will fall through the cracks. Why should I believe that Anthropic will care about this product in 2, 3 years? Whereas I firmly believe that Figma will care greatly about its product in that time
  • tomashertus 6mo ago
    Are they, though? My thinking is that their roadmap is heavily focused on the SDLC and solving problems related to software development, so their model will be optimized for that domain. That leaves room in the market for models that are specialized in other areas of expertise.
    • throwaway041207 6mo ago
      Agree. I'm building a software factory at my job right now that leverages Claude Code. It seems like almost daily Anthropic is releasing new products or features on existing products that seem to overlap with the factory I'm building. I still think my project provides a more coherent workflow from a SDLC standpoint, bringing an idea to a ticket, to a prompt, to a plan, and finally coding and creating a PR, but it definitely feels like Anthropic is heading in that direction as well. It'll be interesting if they eventually bring all of this together into a single uber tool.
    • taylorlapeyre 6mo ago
      If that is what they are optimizing for, then they are not doing a great job on that either. Their latest model is more expensive and less impressive, their downtime is abysmal by any comparison, their "Dispatch" product is unworkable - conversation threads don't sync properly, the UX is quite bad -, their Desktop app is slow and clunky, Cowork is by all accounts mediocre.
  • spyckie2 6mo ago
    It is officially the 2010 Google era at Anthropic (the era where Google released tons of new products and spread themselves too thin). Anyone remember Google's social media platform??? Google Plus? This is a good era to be in! Its the era of product experimentation. As long as you realize that 90% of the products will not be supported long term if it doesn't contribute to bottom line revenue, then just appreciate it for what it is, a bunch of smart people trying to create useful products. Just don't be surprised if Anthropic goes the Google route, which is shutting down the majority of the products that are too small / not successful enough to impact their revenue.
• Growtika 6mo ago
  For my agency this won't replace Figma or designers. It's just a really useful tool to express yourself and communicate intent. Before these tools, when a client wanted a specific section built, we'd spend hours hunting references across the web. The output always ended up feeling like a mesh of 2-3 sites, never fully unique. Then we'd burn more time explaining the intent to the client's designers and devs, usually with multiple rounds because words don't convey layout well. Now we throw a quick mockup together in Claude or Lovable and send it. The designer gets the idea in 30 seconds instead of a 45-minute call, then pushes it further with their own taste and the client's branding. It's not replacing designers. Most clients don't know what they want until they see it. These tools collapse that feedback loop from weeks to minutes, so the designer actually spends their time on the parts that need human taste, not on decoding a vague brief.
  • mickeyp 6mo ago
    Indeed. Kitbashing is a thing, and it was always a thing. Designers I worked with would spend hours doomscrolling pinterest, google images, etc. looking for their, uh... 'spark' when they were given a briefing. This is just a really cool way of building. I'm impressed. I tried Google Stitch but it was slow and useless. Sad, because Gemini has a pretty good creative flair, ironically enough.
    • MisterPea 6mo ago
      Stitch has been very good for me to prototype some designs, and the exporting design feature is great. But jeez, is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times. Complete shift in google's old engineering culture of high quality - they seem to be shipping quickly in favor of stability
      • chrisweekly 6mo ago
        "in favor" is hard to parse; "instead"?
      • WarmWash 6mo ago
        That culture died forever ago, google has been launching half-baked shit that they kill in 18 months after no updates for a decade now.
• _the_inflator 6mo ago
  Lovable was a TailwindCSS recombinator, that’s it. Lately it is more and more ShadCN as well. TailwindCSS is a masterpiece but ironically doesn’t really get its fare share while “Build on top of TW” frameworks make money. TailwindCSS is the final evolution after all other frameworks always had its benefits but also massive limitations. BEM anyone? TW is really elegant a new paradigm in its purest sense and brilliantly executed. No wholes could be poked in it for years and the extensibility shows, how brilliant it is. Bootstrap will always be held dearly but it was about browser quirks etc first. Important milestone but stands no chance against TW.
  • oaxacaoaxaca 6mo ago
    Am I the only one who doesn't like Tailwind? The way it totally pollutes your html makes it seem like, while the benefits are impressive, they're not worth the collateral damage.
    • sweetheart 6mo ago
      I'm in the same boat. Tailwind always seemed insane to me, even after really giving it the benefit of the doubt and trying it out. I use it now only because its so easy for the LLMs to use, so I don't need to actually interface with it at all.
    • AstroBen 6mo ago
      Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it, either. Well organized CSS is much nicer to work with. On the other hand, I'd prefer Tailwind to badly organized CSS.
    • enraged_camel 6mo ago
      You are not the only one. I also dislike it immensely. For a framework that established itself as "for developers who don't know or want to learn CSS", polluting the HTML in the manner you describe makes no sense. And no company I've worked at figured out how to prevent it from becoming a bloated, impossible-to-maintain mess.
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• arbuge 6mo ago
  They state the link is claude.ai/design, which currently goes to: Page not found Claude can help with many things, but finding this page isn’t one of them. when logged in.
• weinzierl 6mo ago
  "create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more." I use Opus to generate Typst for that and I'm already pretty happy with that approach. It gives me a degree of control I do not have with other methods, because 1. Typst is really powerful 2. Opus is really good at surgically modifying Typst I basically never look at the Typst code for this. Telling Opus visually what I want changed is usually good enough.
  • moelf 6mo ago
    how does Opus see the output? via HTML (which Typst can output) or visual tokens?
  • ossa-ma 6mo ago
    How does it compare to LaTeX?
    • shrinks99 6mo ago
      It compiles almost instantly which makes this visual design by Claude instruction viable. That alone is pretty neat. It can't render all your math in exactly the same way. If you need it to do that, it may not be for you.
      • weinzierl 6mo ago
        It's so fast that the first using it I thought something must have gone wrong, and that was a 40 page document.
  • pilgrim0 6mo ago
    Typst is unfairly good for doing systematic designs. I wrote a template system for a complex product catalog in a couple days. Then I modeled the clients products list (exported from their ERP) to the schema and generated a hundred pages catalog instantly with flawless layout. Traditional catalog design in InDesign is extremely prone to errors and inconsistencies, not to mention time consuming if done by hand and very brittle if done with the native automation, which does not handle tabular data very well, requiring arcane non-UTF8 encodings. With Typst, if done right and input data is properly treated once, you can wholly skip the review phase which is represents a massive cost reduction. IMO doing this kind of parametric design from a DSL, either for print or digital, is something massively underrated. Surely feels like cheating. Organizing the media files is a bit more time consuming, though, even with automation. But once you organize and standardize the media repo you’re set, as you just need to do the plumbing once.
• designwithjawad 6mo ago
  Design industry is shaking right now.
• i_love_retros 6mo ago
  I think we will have maybe 5 to 10 years of all this crap, devaluing human made art and human made products, vibe coding everything. But eventually it will all fall apart. Long term only a minority will be happy seeing AI generated crap everywhere and most people will pay for quality human made goods. Unfortunately it's going to be a tough few years until that happens, where it really does feel like the idiots are winning. THE IDIOTS ARE WINNING
  • pythontongue 6mo ago
    where would these unemployed people find money for quality human made goods
    • i_love_retros 6mo ago
      Universal Basic Income. Or from the job they get after attending a government provided green tech retraining program. Which will both happen after the revolution. Which will probably be televised, on Netflix.
• pembrook 6mo ago
  I disagree with most of the takes here. The reason this will fail has nothing to do with design, designers, or taste. This will fail because it's already a forgotten side project within anthropic, and anthropic also has pretty bad product DNA as a company. Their headcount is already too large and the culture is already set. They grew revenue so fast they speedran the stage at which you could build software product chops into the company culture (think Google circa 2008 vs. Google circa 2018). They should focus on what they're good at: the actual AI models and B2B sales. Let OpenAI play early Google and churn through 100 different consumer product experiences to see what sticks, they're better positioned for it anyways.
  • 3sdfs 6mo ago
    " the actual AI models and B2B sales." Maybe they realised its actually a dead-end? Why else would you not double-down and concentrate resources? This would be an amateur error if it turned out to be true.
• nate8bit 6mo ago
  Unless you want something that looks like it's designed by Anthropic, this is still pretty shit. Amazingly "AI" hasn't replaced the very first target on their radar - design.
  • AstroBen 6mo ago
    Design is very hard to verbally describe, and AI doesn't have good judgement on what is easy to use or attractive.
    • nate8bit 6mo ago
      I think it's because it's non-deterministic too. You can't iteratively improve design the same way you can code.
      • conradkay 6mo ago
        If they wanted couldn't they do something like RLHF? Instead of humans picking the best of 2 text outputs, they pick the best rendered design
        • AstroBen 6mo ago
          I'd be very surprised if they're not already doing this.
• bilekas 6mo ago
  Google ai studio has been doing this pretty well for mockups for me at least. I do see people running out of their already limited tokens using this though, unless they silo them to another collection of tokens. Edit: I see they have a new token tier 'Claude Design' so that's good.
• whywhywhywhy 6mo ago
  ultimately if it’s so close to the finished product you may as well just do it in cursor rather than have an extra step. The design problem to solve post-ai isn’t this it’s how the space for thinking fits into all this, getting to the end result slower so human ideation can play out. This is just optimized for the first generic output + tweaks.
• sudohalt 6mo ago
  Lol I've vibe coded something identical to this in a day.
• jej_FundAlign 6mo ago
  I just started using Claude and its amazing. I cant believe ive waited so long. Looking forward to designing
• khalic 6mo ago
  Had some fun with the wireframe mode, very useful to sketch some interaction concepts
• teaearlgraycold 6mo ago
  Just started messing around with this but I like it. It produces better results than just using Claude Code on its own. The initial output has a lot of junk that needs to be removed (just like anything LLMs generate). I suspect it's only good at reproducing content that is relatively cookie-cutter and prominent in the training data. But still, as a non-designer this produces better results than I can and in line with the level of quality of many paid templates.
• hooverlabs 6mo ago
  I thought polymet did a pretty good job of creating mobile app designs and component libraries when I tested it. Winder how this will compare
• ttul 6mo ago
  I threw my sales deck at it and asked it to implement our brand guidelines (attaching that as a PDF). It did a great job and then began giving me internal server errors... I'm going to assume this part of their model farm is totally overwhelmed.
• semking 6mo ago
  Sorry, I hit my session limit by just reading the title
• pilgrim0 6mo ago
  On Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Alexander defines design as the rationalization of the forces that define a problem. You’ll won’t find a better definition. But people tend to think design is the synthesis and its results. This misunderstanding of the role of design and the designer is responsible for all the unfit designs we encounter on a daily basis. Anyone equipped with a synthesis tool and feeling empowered to quickly and cheaply generate forms will almost inevitably become blind to the very nature of the underlying problems they set to solve. They’ll be fitting the problem to the available forms. They’ll skip the understanding, the conversations, the conflicts and disagreements, and happily and wrongly assume a design problem can be solved hermetically, in isolation. They’ll think quality is a factor of aesthetics, when in truth, aesthetics is an effect; nevertheless these effects is all they’ll have control over, as it’s all the tool can do. The tool will hinder their ability to be rational; to see the inner structures; to find the hidden but essential semantics; to create the ontologies that’ll support not only the immediate synthesis, but that will sustain the evolution of the design over its lifetime. They’ll be denied the enlightenment that comes with gradual, slow construction; the only place and moment where innovative ideas reveal themselves. They’ll be impoverished and confuse output with agency. I feel sorry for anyone that will think using tools equals doing design, because of the truly marvelous human experiences that they’ll miss, and that could never be replaced by the shallow pride of empty achievement.
  • mathisfun123 6mo ago
    > because of the truly marvelous human experiences that they’ll miss when people wax philosophical/poetical about what is essentially capital production already i'm always so perplexed - do you not realize that you're not doing art/you're not an artisan? your labor is always actively being transformed into a product sold on a market. there are no "marvelous human experiences", there is only production and consumption. > They’ll be impoverished and confuse output with agency ironic.
    • throwfaraway4 6mo ago
      What a sad take. For the sake of human satisfaction I hope this is a minority perspective.
• orbital-decay 6mo ago
  Until the large model output variety/mode collapse is solved, tools like this one will be generating monotonous slop. Very few people using it will be specifying each detail of what they want.
• mistic92 6mo ago
  This Ai will help vibe coders but won't be better than UI/UX designer with experience. We saw huge difference in our app when we have started working with one.
• artisin 6mo ago
  Having generated ~250k web design images the past few months, I've concluded generative models, circa 2026, still suck at it. Presumably because the difference between an 'OK' design and a 'Great' one is pretty darn small and far too nuanced. That said, Imagen easily takes the cake for workable design creativity, but even then, it takes 1000ish gens to get something decent, maybe 200 if you aren't too picky.
  • 3sdfs 6mo ago
    I personally dont think Anthropic thinks this is a hit product per se. Its all about keeping the hype alive - we all saw what 'SaaS-polcalypse' did. The amount of hype is too much for me - its smoke and mirrors. A firm that knew it was on track to change the world (as much as they have been boosting) would not do this. Much like how Apple kept complete silence about the iPhone and then shocked the world.
• taytus 6mo ago
  Anthropic is making the exact same mistake OpenAI did: lack of focus. Release, release, release, all good apps, all full of bugs. This is a massive mess and people aren't talking enough about how bad all of this is.
  • 3sdfs 6mo ago
    I think its hilarious. BUt what it really shows is there's no vision. If you had a vision and coherent strategy you'd concentrate resources - not dilute them across a myriad of projects.
    • 9rx 6mo ago
      To be fair, the vision isn't achievable yet. More training data is needed. These projects spring up to try and compel users into offering up training information in the niches that need more data. They don't really have to be good, or even long-lasting, if they satisfy the goal of getting the data sought after.
  • boc 6mo ago
    I think you're missing the larger point: software is about to be insanely easy to generate. Anthropic is churning out new products because they can basically spin these things up in a week, so there's really no "cost" to them in a traditional strategic sense. The US had the atom bomb for a few years before anyone else had it. Anthropic has mythos now before anyone else - they are probably using it to churn out as many software clones as possible before someone else catches up.
• SpyCoder77 6mo ago
  This explains why Mike Krieger left the board of Figma (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-cpo-leaves-figmas-board-after-reports-he-will-offer-a-competing-product/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-cpo-leaves-figma...)
  • SilverElfin 6mo ago
    Wow. So he was on their board, learning all about how their business works and what they’re working on, and then launches a competitor? Is that really legal?
    • nevir 6mo ago
      Especially considering this is very very similar to Figma Make
• bornfreddy 6mo ago
  Is there a way one can do DTP using LLMs? InDesign only integrates image generating, if I'm not mistaken. .
  • iamflimflam1 6mo ago
    LLMs still seem to really struggle with layout. These design tools seem to work well for designs that flow naturally like webpages. But try and design say an “An A4 poster with a hero image, main text saying this, details next to the image and fine print at bottom” and you end up with pretty poor results.
• game_the0ry 6mo ago
  Did anyone see what happened to Figma's stock? Its crazy that just an announcement from Anthropic can move the market.
• raviisoccupied 6mo ago
  I am not an engineer, I can't look at code and determine if it is good, performant, or elegant. However, I can look at designs and make a judgement. I'm curious to see how Claude Design changes how I think about AI and its capabilities.
  • hkpack 6mo ago
    If you are not a software engineer you can judge code the same way as you can judge design while not being a designer. It is that in one case it is obvious for you that you don’t understand what you are looking at, and in another, for some reason, it is not.
    • raviisoccupied 6mo ago
      >If you are not a software engineer you can judge code the same way as you can judge design while not being a designer. Very true.
    • nerptastic 6mo ago
      I have a degree in design - it's one of those frustrating fields where laypeople really do believe they are experts. Mostly because... they can "see" it. It's easy to propose a change to a design. "Just move it to the right. Or left. Or make it green". The end product is SUPPOSED to be simple to digest and understand, but the process behind that artifact is enigmatic. It may have taken months to determine the proper layout structure for a government website, but a certain end user can still say "Well... I would rather have the navbar on the right side." Some of it is probably vocabulary as well. Software has jargon - design has jargon, but laypeople know how to say "bigger, smaller, right, left, red, blue". Frustrating, and part of why I left the field.
• khoury 6mo ago
  To people saying its replacing Lovable. It's still missing the ability to deploy right from the app with a backend ready to go. I'm sure it will get there tho.
  • stopachka 6mo ago
    Here's a 2-line prompt that gives Claude Design a backend: ``` <YOUR APP IDEA HERE> ---- To get your credentials and learn about InstantDB, fetch this URL: https://instantdb.com/llm-rules/create-app/AGENTS.md https://instantdb.com/llm-rules/create-app/AGENTS.md ``` Every cURL request to AGENTS.md spins up a new backend and splices in the credentials. I used it to build this multiplayer pelican game: https://349b7470-3747-49e7-8ece-960a45b0b2da.claudeusercontent.com/v1/design/projects/349b7470-3747-49e7-8ece-960a45b0b2da/serve/pelican.html?t=72ad1d072ca289a601a1729116b170e56b80c712cf888a89f5b310f3b144c312.58a849a0-e2a1-4980-acdb-47776298c90f.40ac0664-7f71-4dd5-a015-9b729cfc3774.1776465841 https://349b7470-3747-49e7-8ece-960a45b0b2da.claudeuserconte... Disclaimer: I am the founder of InstantDB
    • khutorni 6mo ago
      Curious to see it, but the linked page says "authentication required".
• kingofbits 6mo ago
  Hmm.. i don't like prompting my way to fix pixel decisions. Fed it my figma file to it and creating a design system. And yeah, it looks like it, but it's still wayyy off at the same time
• poly2it 6mo ago
  I'm not sure if I'm holding it wrong, but at these usage rates, I can hardly see this being useful for designers in their daily work. In two prompts using the Max 20x plan, it consumed 11% of my weekly limit for Claude Design, which is separate from your normal limits. A day of work would exhaust over four weeks of usage. Is this meant for intermittent use only? Lately I've been getting the feeling that Anthropic is forgetting how absurdly much we are already paying for these tools, compared to conventional development tools, or even competing inference providers.
  • ayhanfuat 6mo ago
    Same for me. It jumped to 11% on the first prompt and now increasing steadily. I think I will hit the limits without seeing a hi-fi version.
  • raphman 6mo ago
    Yeah. I'm only on the Pro plan and immediately reached my weekly Claude Design quota by having it create a slide template (with much too small text) and three versions of a system dashboard design (rather nice). No iterations. Another thing: I realized how much I hate waiting for Claude to finish its thing. With UI designs, a quick interaction loop between tool and user feels much more important than with code.
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  • luckylion 6mo ago
    11% of $50 -- did you get $5.50 of value out of it? Would a designer have charged you more then $5.50 to create the same?
• necatiozmen 6mo ago
  https://getdesign.md/ https://getdesign.md/ provides more accurate design system extraction than Claude design. Could be use vice-versa
  • rirze 6mo ago
    The sites seem to be all of the same format-- with different color palettes as the main offering point here. A little misleading, as I thought they would showcase different types of site design entirely.
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• roelb 6mo ago
  Let's not fool ourselves: their goal isn't to build a design tool, it's another training tool for a field where training data is hard to collect. We collectively reinforce predictions to sharpen the models. The pattern is clear across all their products. This is training for future one-shot generative UIs. UIs are already generative; this will scale that up to a world where applications are mostly UI-less.
• bobkb 6mo ago
  The design process was completely dictated by Figma. After the demise of Adobe XD, Invison etc they were the only option. Happy to see alternatives entering to save us from the curse of Figma !
• Draiken 6mo ago
  Nice video but the expectations vs reality is brutal: provide it with an actual PDF with a design system, wait for 30min and the entire thing is stuck. You talk to it, it consumes "usage" and no design system created. Had a similar experience with their online code sessions. All this slop generated code is so freaking bad. We'll get drowned in so much slop code that at some point only these garbage machines will be able to "work" with it.
• ozten 6mo ago
  Every day is Christmas. Not enough time to play with our new toys before the next batch drops. Insane.
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• florakel 6mo ago
  For me it was the missing piece when working with Claude Code. I am a PM by formation so neither do I know how to design nor do I know how to code but I am pretty good at describing what I want and why. I just played with Claude Design for a while and it made it really easy to explore different solutions, reorganize the interface, adjust little detail with the "comment" function, move buttons around, etc. Then export to Claude code including the design system, and I spend way less time writing a spec and can focus more on corner cases and the ugly details. 2 years ago I still had to hire a freelance designer and a developer for small projects, now for the fraction of the cost I am totally independent and can iterate as much as I want. We always mention that "the design is not unique" or "the software architecture is not clean and the code to verbose" - I get it I managed Series C startup product teams before I got sick of the VC shit show. Now I am working mostly with lifestyle businesses and SMBs that have the ambition to be profitable - and average is good enough for them. They gain access to custom designed software for specific use cases which was completely out of reach for them 3 years ago. Custom solutions meant working with mediocre, overpriced agencies creating "solutions" with Wordpress. Anything I can do with the Claude stack is on higher level at a fraction of the cost. And as long as it works and looks good those business don't give a ** about unique design and scalable software engineering.
• nektro 6mo ago
  oh. i was expecting this to be like claude's brand guidelines
• mbesto 6mo ago
  Why on earth is Canva parternering here? This is literally eating their world.
  • saxelsen 6mo ago
    Agree, but maybe they worry they'll be even more irrelevant if they don't partner? Keep your enemies close...
  • pdabbadabba 6mo ago
    Because it will eat their world either way?
  • lukev 6mo ago
    I would bet that Canva's bet is that companies will always want a "last mile" of manual control, even if only for the Queen's Duck effect. If Canva is the default, zero friction path for that, great for them. The alternative is to not hop on the AI bandwagon, or run an "also ran" AI story, and both those scenarios (I expect) game out worse given the current zeitgeist.
• dclowd9901 6mo ago
  So I guess I should just give up on my dream of having a useful AI assistant for day to day "human" tasks. We're just hell bent on replacing humans in jobs.
  • justonepost2 6mo ago
    "human in the loop" is downstream of what nature does already nature beckons its creatures to become whatever they must become to be useful in the greater living ecosystem (the loop) when you can't be useful in the loop you get flushed out of existence humans who can't be useful will also thus be buffered out of existence
    • dclowd9901 6mo ago
      "Useful" is an interesting term. How useful is someone who is an expert at using AI but has no computer?
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• zahlman 6mo ago
  Am I the only one who gets annoyed at "design" being used to mean specifically UI design without qualification or warning?
• tristanb 6mo ago
  My feedback for whatever it's worth as a 25yr design veteran. * Massive token usage, some small tasks burned through $50 of credits and did not offer $50 of value. * Terrible at logo work. Comically bad. This is something that is "hard" so it could add great value if it could deliver. * Repeatedly forgot prior feedback - when iterating it would re-implement prior iterations after being told why we didn't want that result which made for a very frustrating UX. * Prone to adding visual clutter - kept adding extra elements that look "pretty" but add no value to the user. * Seems better at "pretty" vs user focused / UX. * Did not do a good job at using my existing design / UI library * REALLY wanted to start from scratch. Could not be coaxed into designing part of an application, it wanted to redesign the whole thing.
  • zozbot234 6mo ago
    > * Terrible at logo work. Comically bad. This is something that is "hard" so it could add great value if it could deliver. OK but what we really want to know, what's it like when it comes to drawing pelicans riding on bicycles?
    • tristanb 6mo ago
      To be fair, i did not ask for a logo with a pelican in it.
  • gck1 6mo ago
    I'm curious, is there anything out there that will get you the 80% of logo work? Claude opus always came closest to me as a non-designer, but it was always still something far from usable.
    • tristanb 6mo ago
      Haven’t found it yet. The component parts seems to be close. Opus is much better at drawing SVG than it used to be.
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• andy_ppp 6mo ago
  I think it’s clear that Anthropic are leading the industry right now and I believe it’s because they are better at using their own tools to develop software than anyone else. I suspect that trend will accelerate.
• davebren 6mo ago
  Remember, every product they release expands the scope of their non-compete clause, and they like their lawsuits.
• timsuchanek 6mo ago
  Rate exceeded.
• einrealist 6mo ago
  Good for crunching out some prototypes, ideas and getting inspirations I guess. Two prompts - the initial one and one refinement - took about ten minutes and used up 90% of the token budget. I wonder what the real costs are. After the IPO, they will no longer be able to subsidize token costs. The question will then be whether it's still cheap enough just for prototypes, ideas and inspiration.
  • anonu 6mo ago
    As long as tokens cost less than humans people will pay for them. If you're human you need to differentiate yourself bigly from what will quickly become mainstream AI slop.
    • einrealist 6mo ago
      True. I didn't expect it to provide novel designs. Maybe Anthropic should find a better replacement for 'Design'. In my example, I expected it to create UI elements for a business application / expert system. And it did fine. In fact, I believe its perfect for creating average and functional designs. Its a better way to test variations of UIs for expert systems. But I want to know what the actual costs are.
• stephencoyner 6mo ago
  The labs team absolutely cooked with this. As a designer who's been using Claude Code a lot to make better prototypes, I still go back to mockups for comparing many iterations, collecting precise feedback with comments, and documenting decisions for decks or sharing with other departments like product marketing. This seems to solve for all of these use cases (or at least start to). It's also just a beautiful product. The interaction model, styling and integrations via exporting is all super thoughtful
• lofaszvanitt 6mo ago
  Sigh, same old, rusty design.
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• preston-kwei 6mo ago
  I think UI quality is going to stop being as important when anybody can just generate an "average" UI that is good enough in minutes. Ultimately, this really just shifts the focus towards product design and ideation rather than UI design.
• sourcecodeplz 6mo ago
  Wonder how Canva were roped into this, Claude Design will just replace them from what I read?
• bibimsz 6mo ago
  nice!
• Aperocky 6mo ago
  Isn't this just going to be AI slop but on a design level? It's not X, it's Y! all over again?
• eagerpace 6mo ago
  Very mid. If you have any experience building your own UI kit, this will just slow you down.
  • stingraycharles 6mo ago
    I’m quite successful doing UI with a proper design system, variables.css, atoms, molecules and organisms and constantly sticking to that. Claude seems to work well with it. I explore designs in Claude Desktop, and once I’m satisfied, I’ll let Claude desktop handover prompts for Claude Code. Claude Code makes a review harness inside the actual application for each atom, molecule and organism, and I accept each of them one by one. I wonder if this is something similar, but makes the whole process smoother. As someone who’s not particularly good at frontend, I’m quite happy with what all this accomplishes.
    • eagerpace 6mo ago
      You have a great process. I'm doing something similar, fine with Tailwind as a base and just build my own components from there. I think this will help entry-level people develop a similar process so perhaps it's great for that.
      • stingraycharles 6mo ago
        I just gave Claude Design a whirl. I'm not impressed, compared to what I was using: it actually seems less structured than what I need. What I really don't like is that this tool maintains its own "state": I want everything as markdown files in my git repo, not as some arbitrary black box blob inside Anthropic's cloud.
• d_silin 6mo ago
  I tried and not impressed. Even latest and greatest LLMs still have very poor understanding of geometry and numbers.
• hackable_sand 6mo ago
  Anything but solve real problems Anything but that
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• crambelsoupy 6mo ago
  I'm a max plan customer, use Anthropic products A LOT and am generally impressed with Claude Code. But this is not even close to being ready for release. Below is the transcript of me trying to initialize a design system. Pretty disappointing, this clearly wasn't tested by humans. Exact Transcript as follows: -- Claude: Let me fix these precisely: <empty> -- Me: ok -- Claude: <empty> -- Me: hello? -- Claude: <empty> -- Me: there's still some issues with 01 live and 02 - your business. -- Claude: <empty> -- Me: hello? -- Claude: Sorry about that. Let me look at those two and figure out what's still wrong. <empty> --- Me: hello? -- Claude: Screenshot _illo_check.html Viewing image illustration-pillar-1.svg Viewing image illustration-pillar-2.svg <empty>
  • afro88 6mo ago
    I got a lot of <empty> as well. But was able to get a slide deck out of it before that happened, and it was reasonably good. Not 1-shot good, but better than what I have gotten out of Opus 4.6 with a skill previously
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• alunchbox 6mo ago
  I don't really care about the web builder, a better slide deck creator I'm down for with MCP capabilities, pulling in things like Atlassian & Dyantrace metrics for slides would be nice including github issues etc.
• melbourne_mat 6mo ago
  I see a lot of responses here taking the purist line: that it's not real design and customers will know the difference. I suspect it's close enough in many cases that customers won't know or won't care. Likely it will have a big impact on design employment.
  • gist 6mo ago
    This is exactly true. Very similar reactions when in the mid 80's in typesetting the purists said also it's not real. (I was in the business back then and remember it well. Anyway a few things happened. End users (not everyone but many many) liked it enough to replace professionals. AND it got better than the initial version which people were evaluating.
• thelastgallon 6mo ago
  Reading, writing, thinking, code, design jobs are gone. Looks like only onlyfans remains. How long before AI can take over onlyfans?
  • xandrius 6mo ago
    If you think like that, you're already gone.
  • josefrichter 6mo ago
    well, the AI models are already a thing and you can’t tell it’s AI. so maybe they’re already taking over and nobody noticed.
  • speak_on 6mo ago
    OF will be replaced before all the other jobs in this list. OF's main "product" is fantasies. A fast, local, uncensored, tunable video model will end it.
  • sizzle 6mo ago
    Grok already proved it was possible to replace that nsfw genre
  • Strom 6mo ago
    OnlyFans already has a lot of AI generated content. If you look at the usual scammer gathering places, you'll see a bunch of dudes discussing the latest trends in polishing their virtual OF models.
• josefrichter 6mo ago
  Import/export anywhere not including Figma is diabolical. Otherwise it looks fantastic!
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• tiberriver256 6mo ago
  This thing is... not great...
• jweir 6mo ago
  This but attached targeting a 3D printer.
• dbg31415 6mo ago
  Modern Figma design libraries are one of the best things to happen to product teams in the last 20 years. Reusable components. Shared styles. Auto layout. Variants. Design tokens. So many useful plugins! Interactive prototypes. Dev mode handoff. Versioned libraries. A single source of truth keeping designers, engineers, and PMs speaking the same language. It's fucking bliss when you use it right. And best of all, anyone on the team can build with the legos the designers gave us! Teams finally started treating the design system like infrastructure instead of decoration. Then Figma Make showed up. It generates pages that ignore your components, skip your tokens, and treat every screen like a fresh snowflake. Looks fine in the mockup. Lands like a brick on the dev team. Now every page is bespoke and every handoff is a rebuild. Fucking sucks. We had it all figured out, then we fucked it up. AI was supposed to accelerate momentum. But it just so completely lacks maturity. AI Tools are dragging teams back to 2010, when every page was a Photoshop file (with way too many layers and shitty names for them) and none of the designers can agree on what radius to assign to their buttons. Good design systems are a discipline. If your AI tool doesn't respect the library, it's not a designer. It's an intern with a Molotov cocktail waiting to destroy your productivity. I haven't used Claude Design yet, I'll try it, but I LOVE Figma, and I hate Figma Make. I don't have high hopes for Claude here.
  • dbg31415 6mo ago
    I can't edit that... but yeah, Claude Design is significantly better than Figma Make. Start with asking it to get up to speed on your design system, or build you a design system from your brand guidelines... and it does a pretty good job. It also does a surprisingly good job of using some of the more advanced Figma tools that a lot of human designers struggle with... 3 days in, I've been really impressed.
• Sateeshm 6mo ago
  I've been building a similar tool since Tuesday with CC and got very far, More thought out features and interface then this. Applications have no moat, when you can build it in a week. Really hope Anthropic didn't notice my ingenious work and quickly copy it.
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• Unsponsoredio 6mo ago
  the real unlock here isn't the design output. it's that non-designers can now have a visual conversation instead of writing a 3 page spec that nobody reads. half the design problems I've seen weren't bad taste. they were bad communication between the person who knew what they wanted and the person who could build it.
• DecoPerson 6mo ago
  This isn’t going to replace Figma. It’s going to replace the people who use Figma. My 76yo Dad just used Claude Design to make a simple commercial tenancy/lease management CRUD app. We handed what he built to Claude Code to implement within my existing business tech stack. It perfectly followed my coding & testing playbooks (basically a multi-file CLAUDE.md with prompt & command hooks to evaluate conformance). It works… exactly as my Dad imagined. Now, mind you, my Dad had some outdated UI expectations (he asked Claude Design to style use a Windows 98 aesthetic!), but my point is: we just built a fully-functional, deeply tested, domain-expert-designed app, in less than a day.
  • mritchie712 6mo ago
    I don't like the "I canceled my x subscription" hype posts, but I did cancel Figma today. We've barely used it in months and this was the nail in the coffin.
  • anonyfox 6mo ago
    simple question, I didn't found out that tiny point in the claude design UI: how do you "hand over" to claude code exactly? just created my design system and would like to drop into my CC managed repo so CC can flesh out all the react components to the design system. only a folder with files like SKILL.md so far that I spotted ort some JSX stuff. wonder if there is some blessed way instead
    • DecoPerson 6mo ago
      For us, Claude Design wrote one html file and a bunch of jsx files. What it built was quite functional. We used the “export” button to download the project as a zip file and I placed the contents into a directory in my monorepo. Then I wrote an about 5 paragraph prompt for Claude Code, sent it with bypass permissions (CC is running as a different, non-root user with no LAN network access), and went to bed. The next day, viola, it turned prototype jsx into tsx (+ server-side ts) that mostly conformed with my existing stack. I’ve been trying to find a good way to let my Dad keep tweaking the new version but haven’t so far. For now he continues to work (using CD) on the jsx prototype. I can do another export later and CC could use git diff to see what changed and realise those same changes in the “real” version. But there has to be a better way.
• TrackerFF 6mo ago
  I've said it many times since 2022: Many wrapper startups and even billion dollar companies are living on borrowed time, until the big dogs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) simply release their products as a built-in function.
  • TrackerFF 6mo ago
    Also, I'll echo some of the other users here: I think some of these AI-giants are going for the Google route, where they launch a wide range of products to lock in users to their suite. Switching between models by provider is quite fluid these days. Becoming reliant on a product suite is much more sticky. The big question is, of course, how invested will they (the companies) be in their products? Will it be a re-run of Google where far too many products end up being scrapped after a year or two?
• FrankRay78 6mo ago
  I wonder if this is the death of true design.
• vaguemit 6mo ago
  works crazily
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• britannio 6mo ago
  12 prompts and my weekly usage on the 5x Max plan is up :(
  • paustint 6mo ago
    Are you sure? I looked at my Claude usage dashboard and design has its own usage bucket not tied to anything else. Design usage shouldn't impact code usage.
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• gcanyon 6mo ago
  A lot of people here are saying this will never replace human creativity. It's difficult to know ahead of time which things AI (or more broadly, technology) will succeed at and which it will (for now) fail at. So it's good that people are trying to apply AI to everything: some things will fail, but some we expect will fail will not, and if we had followed our intuition we wouldn't have tried and never would have succeeded. Semi-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/
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• m3kw9 6mo ago
  People often confuse UI with UX, LLMs are very often severely bad at UX.
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• grimm8080 6mo ago
  Huh
• mysh 6mo ago
  The big question is – why did they call it omelette internally?
  • justinhj 6mo ago
    Figma is the eggs maybe
• NotGMan 6mo ago
  Claude used 65% of my Design budget for one run: a website (4 ref images and ~3 pdfs). Can't even test two designs. No idea if PDFs used up so much budget.
• mcrowe 6mo ago
  They've exposed the system prompt via the network requests. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that was intentional, and not because the app was blindly vibe coded ;-). Here's the prompt as of around release-time yesterday. You can verify in your own network requests. https://gist.github.com/mcrowe/9da081f52e0740886d39e730852dba49 https://gist.github.com/mcrowe/9da081f52e0740886d39e730852db...
• ramon156 6mo ago
  Gave it info about an existing project to do a redesign > You've hit your usage limit. Claude uses a different usage limit. Resets Mon 12am It's Tuesday. What are we doing here, Anthropic? This was also the last day until my subscription ends. Good riddance.