Claude Design

At a Glance

Claude Design is an Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work, designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and UI mockups, starting from a prompt.

You describe what you need, Claude builds a first version, and you refine it through chat, inline comments, direct edits, or custom sliders that Claude generates for things like spacing, color, and layout.

What Claude Design Is Best For

• Prompt-to-prototype: turn an idea into an interactive prototype
• Slides and pitch decks: generate and refine presentation visuals
• One-pagers: quick, polished single-page documents
• UI mockups: explore interface ideas without a design background
• Brand-aware output: it can build a design system from your codebase and files, then apply it

How Claude Design Differs

Unlike a traditional design editor, Claude Design is conversational: refinement happens through dialogue and AI-generated controls rather than manual tooling alone. It is built around Claude rather than being a standalone design suite.

Honest Limitations

• Research preview: features and availability are still evolving
• Paid plans only at launch: offered to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers
• Review the output: AI-generated designs still need human judgment for brand and accuracy

Alternatives Worth Knowing

• Figma Make / Figma AI, AI design and prototyping inside Figma
• Canva AI, beginner-friendly AI design and content creation
• Gamma, AI presentations and documents