Claude Design

albert_e

is this the Figma/Canva/Powerpoint/Keynote killer?

PullJosh

I like their emphasis on quickly prototyping many variations of a design. That seems useful, even for experienced designers.

ej88

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?

hmokiguess

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

mikeaskew4

Thumbs down. Great design is original thought. AI is wholly incapable of that. Go ahead and roast me.

cdrnsf

Now I can visualize my bloated shadcn + Tailwind UI in advance.

sbszllr

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.

namanyayg

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

ljm

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.

atonse

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

jmkni

Unfortunate that linking code from your computer doesn't work with Firefox Very interesting though

ossa-ma

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.

hudo

404 Page not found when clicking on their link https://claude.ai/design at the end of the article! Vibe coding to prod, gone wrong?

anonfunction

Start designing at claude.ai/design. That link is redirecting me to https://claude.ai/404 , anyone else?

jansan

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

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.

lagrange77

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

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.

lmeyerov

When Anthropic's CPO left Figma's board this week, that was my first question . Oof.

GenerWork

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.