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Anthropic Debuts Claude Design for Creating Prototypes, Pitch Decks, and Mockups

Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new AI product for creating designs, prototypes, slides, and more. Claude Design uses Opus 4.7, a new AI model that was introduced earlier this week.


Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable vision model, and it can see images in greater resolution. Anthropic says that it is "more tasteful and creative" when doing professional tasks. It is able to create higher-quality interfaces, slides, and docs, making it ideal for Claude Design. Claude Design was developed to allow founders, product managers, and marketers without a design background to create visuals for sharing an idea.

Claude Design is able to mock up an initial design after being provided with a prompt, and from there, designers can make revisions through conversation, comments, direct edits, and custom sliders made by Claude. Anthropic says that teams have been using Claude Design for realistic prototypes, wireframes and mockups, design explorations, pitch decks, presentations, social media assets, and more.

Working with Claude Design starts with brand assets, which Claude can get from the user's design files and codebase. Projects will use brand colors, typography, and other components, plus users can use a web capture tool to pull elements directly from their brand's website. Claude Design is not an image generator like Gemini's Nano Banana or ChatGPT, but it is similar to AI assistants that Adobe and Canva have rolled out.

There are included collaboration tools so multiple members of an organization can access and edit a design, and content created by Claude can be exported anywhere with support for Canva, PDF, PPTX, and standalone HTML files. Designs that are ready to build can be handed off to Claude Code, and Anthropic plans to make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design in the coming weeks.

Claude Design is available as a research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. It is rolling out to users gradually throughout the day.

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1 hour ago at 01:10 pm

I just saw that. It's crazy. Figma and many other apps must be crapping their pants.
Pretty fair to say everyone in digital/web creation should be crapping their pants right now; including the tool makers.
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14 minutes ago at 02:16 pm
Check out this great calculator design they have in their Examples section


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1 hour ago at 01:29 pm

No. Chat bots have been able to supply code for design for two-three years. Look how long Windsurf and Cursor have been around for.

Companies like Canva or Figma can do the same thing with custom models and also offer a choice of different providers.

It always requires a designer with good taste and experience to use these AI tools. The models are absolutely crap at designing on their own and need instructions so that they match each project’s spec. Just look at how ugly vibe coded apps are in the hands of clowns.
While I won't go as far to refer to others as clowns. AI isn't alive so it cannot have its own taste and creativity. It's a model. This is why I'd like to see Apple attempt a drag-and-drop design app you can also speak inputs to. It could be very powerful for creatives if Apple focused on it seriously. Even just basic stuff such as telling the app what size this item should be and being able to speak hex, Pantone or RAL color codes and radius curves and gradients and then drag to adjust to fine tune toward your goal.

Over time Apple could potentially anonymously collect spoken user inputs users rated positively, and use those to shape the model to carry out desired instructions users might have. The app could learn what a user might mean by "make this a bit more curved" or "make the color more pleasant" or "give this more pop". Not rocket science just statistics with the foundation of the app being fully drag-and-drop from start to finish. So a user could add as much or as little vocal input as they prefer.

After Apple got rid of iWeb many years ago I've been waiting for them to throw their hat in the drag-and-drop design ring again. The concept of iWeb could be the basis of a very powerful design app from Apple. With their new Apple Creator Studio now may be the time.
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1 hour ago at 01:21 pm

Pretty fair to say everyone in digital/web creation should be crapping their pants right now; including the tool makers.
Sure, until everybody hits the wall where everything from everyone looks the same no matter how well made it is.

Talented designers are not getting replaced.
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1 hour ago at 01:20 pm

Pretty fair to say everyone in digital/web creation should be crapping their pants right now; including the tool makers.
No. Chat bots have been able to supply code for design for two-three years. Look how long Windsurf and Cursor have been around for.

Companies like Canva or Figma can do the same thing with custom models and also offer a choice of different providers.

It always requires a designer with good taste and experience to use these AI tools. The models are absolutely crap at designing on their own and need instructions so that they match each project’s spec. Just look at how ugly vibe coded apps are in the hands of clowns.
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1 hour ago at 01:16 pm
Anthropic is going after everyone’s lunch. Their new model, mythos, is clearly cooking up new amazing features/products every week.

We are barely through a quarter of 2026. What will Claude be like in December 2026? :eek:
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