Anthropic just dropped another tool out of the blue: Claude Design. It lets you build websites, graphics, animations — basically any design project — right inside the Claude app. As of now it’s only available to paid plans (Pro, Max, and Teams). In this first look I’ll walk through what it is and give you a quick demo, and I think you’ll be as impressed as I’ve been.
What Claude Design Is
Head to claude.ai/design and you land on a workspace with a chat interface on the left, where all the work happens, and your designs in the middle alongside examples of what other people have built — PowerPoint slides, load screens, web page backgrounds. The one feature I think is brilliant, that a lot of design tools miss, is a dedicated spot for your design system: your brand guidelines, logo, color palette, and fonts. You upload the files or link a folder on your desktop, similar to how Cowork works, and that system shows up on your homepage to apply across projects.
Building Something From a Prompt
To start, you go into Create. On the left there’s a context panel for reference screenshots, your design system, and the Claude model (it defaults to Opus, with Haiku and Sonnet as lighter options). You can also upload files, audio, or video to focus the design. I asked it to build a website about the history of rock, and it asked follow-up questions to sharpen the brief — timeline-driven, interactive, which eras to highlight — before generating. Like Cowork, it shows a progress bar of the workflow as it builds, which makes it feel like you’re participating in the design rather than just waiting.
The Result
About four or five minutes later I had a full, interactive website — complete with sound bites. At the top, a Design Files view shows exactly what it’s pulling from: the JSX components, and for websites, the CSS. It’s not live on the internet as-is, but I can take the HTML and import it into a real URL. Typing in a request and getting something this robust back a few minutes later is genuinely wild.
Built for Collaboration
What really sets it apart is that it’s built as a collaboration tool. Copy a link and send it to a teammate and they open the exact same thing — they can comment, edit specific elements, or draw directly on the design to mark up a mockup. You can present it in a meeting, or export it as a ZIP for a developer or a PDF for approvals. Comments collect under a dedicated tab, so feedback stays in one place.
The Tweaks Feature
There’s also a feature called Tweaks that I really like. When you set up the prompt and you’re unsure about something — say three color options or three fonts — you can set them up as a tweak. Then, once the page is live, you can change density, toggle the timeline on or off, and adjust those options, and it updates the file in real time so you see the change immediately.
Very cool first release from Anthropic. Let me know in the comments if you’re interested in trying it, and if you want more Claude content, check out my Claude plus Microsoft 365 video above.
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