Claude Design

Prototype on a canvas, then hand off to Claude Code with one command.

Claude Design (claude.ai/design, on the web, not in the desktop app) is a visual canvas with a chat next to it: describe an interface, watch it appear, click into any element and tweak. Underneath, it's real working code, which is what makes it more than a mockup tool.

Where it fits in your workflow is before the terminal. When you have an idea but no picture of it yet, an hour in Design beats an hour of prompting blind. Feed it screenshots of sites you like, a Figma file, even your existing project, and during onboarding it can build a small design system from them, so everything you make inherits your colors and type.

The handoff

This is the move we demo at workshops because it lands every time: prototype in Design until it looks right, then hand off to Claude Code with a single command. Design scaffolds the entire project into a local folder, ready for real features and a real deploy. At one workshop we went from empty canvas to a live, deployed web app inside the hour, most of it spent arguing about fonts.

Build me a small web app that helps me craft a birthday message. Ask who it's for, what they're into, and the tone I want (sincere, funny, brief), then generate three options. Minimal, clean aesthetic.

Practical notes: it's on Pro plans and up (not Free), it has its own usage allowance separate from chat, and exports also go to PDF, PPTX, and HTML if what you actually needed was a deck. For pure prototyping speed, this is our answer to the browser builders, with an exit ramp into the real toolchain.

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