How to Use Claude Design

I’ve seen too many good product ideas die in the gap between “I can describe it” and “I can design it.”

Claude Design matters because it collapses that gap: you describe the work, refine it in conversation, and ship something your team can actually build.

Let’s get into it.

Why Claude Design Exists

Here’s the bottleneck nobody talks about honestly: even experienced designers ration exploration because time is finite. You don’t try the third layout direction because the first two already ate your afternoon.

And if you’re a founder, PM, or marketer — someone who has the idea but not the Figma fluency — you’re stuck translating vision into words and hoping someone else builds the right thing.

Claude Design is Anthropic’s answer to that.

Launched on April 17, 2026 as an Anthropic Labs product in research preview, it lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work — designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more — through conversation.