1. Set up your design system and your core screens. An hour of setup and refinement here is worth it
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🧵 My tips for getting the best results out of Claude Design! I’m on the verticals team at Anthropic which means I serve 7 different products. Claude Design makes it possible!
1. Set up your design system and your core screens. An hour of setup and refinement here is worth it
1. Set up your design system and your core screens. An hour of setup and refinement here is worth it
2. Iterate with your engineers live
I’m usually able to design new features with an engineer in a single meeting. Because Claude is super fast at mockups, we can stay high level in our conversation, riffing on concepts and constraints and watching them come to life.
I’m usually able to design new features with an engineer in a single meeting. Because Claude is super fast at mockups, we can stay high level in our conversation, riffing on concepts and constraints and watching them come to life.
3. Use the Comment tool to make rapid fire surgical edits
After a rough first draft, there might be dozens of details you want to tweak. It’s tricky to describe all the changes you want verbally - so don’t! Point and crit.
After a rough first draft, there might be dozens of details you want to tweak. It’s tricky to describe all the changes you want verbally - so don’t! Point and crit.
4. Ask Claude to make video demos of your ideas
In general, Claude Design can do almost anything you can think of. It’s honestly more like Claude Code than a canvas-based design tool.
In general, Claude Design can do almost anything you can think of. It’s honestly more like Claude Code than a canvas-based design tool.
5. Use connectors (esp. docs/slack)
Once set up, you can send prompts like “Please read the meeting notes from the product roast and create a deck exploring different design solutions for everything that came up”. Go for a walk and touch some grass and come back with fresh eyes!
Once set up, you can send prompts like “Please read the meeting notes from the product roast and create a deck exploring different design solutions for everything that came up”. Go for a walk and touch some grass and come back with fresh eyes!
6. Ask Claude to make bespoke on-the-fly tools
In general, don’t try to use Claude Design the way you would use a canvas-based tool. It’s a different animal with different superpowers. Experiment and get funky! You’ll find yourself designing circles around the way you used to.
In general, don’t try to use Claude Design the way you would use a canvas-based tool. It’s a different animal with different superpowers. Experiment and get funky! You’ll find yourself designing circles around the way you used to.
7. Know when to slow down and do things by hand
New icons, spot illustrations, naming. Some details will always make an outsized impact. It can be easy to get sucked into the hyper speed of agentic designing. Knowing when to slow down is an art form of its own.
New icons, spot illustrations, naming. Some details will always make an outsized impact. It can be easy to get sucked into the hyper speed of agentic designing. Knowing when to slow down is an art form of its own.
My favorite thing about Claude design is how *delightful* it makes the process of design! I can try out more divergent ideas, and hold them more loosely.
It's been a real treat to watch @nateparrott & co cook on this! In part bc it's a powerful / innovative new tool, but also bc of the whimsy and fun he embodies throughout the whole process.
P.S. Fun fact - I contributed a handful of PRs to Claude Design, which are all long since obsolete. I did a little bit of work on the file screen, the composer, and some other random things.
Now that Claude Design is out there I'll share more tips & tricks about how to get the most out of it!
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