Anthropic now has a design assistant too

Source: Engadget

Overview

Claude Design allows Anthropic’s chatbot to generate visual assets such as presentations, prototypes, and more. After enabling Claude to generate charts and diagrams, Anthropic introduced Claude Design as a research preview that lets subscribers create designs, prototypes, slides, and other visual work.

“Claude Design gives designers room to explore widely and everyone else a way to produce visual work,” — Anthropic

The system powering the app, Opus 4.7, is described as Anthropic’s most capable vision model to date. It isn’t meant for whimsical image generation (e.g., “a cat in space eating a lasagna”).

Features

• Prompt‑first workflow – Every project starts with a text prompt. Users can refine outputs through conversation, inline comments, and direct edits.

• Custom sliders – Similar to Adobe’s AI assistant, Claude generates sliders linked to specific design elements, allowing users to adjust attributes such as glow and density.

  

• Onboarding visual language – Claude can ingest an organization’s codebase and design documents to build an internal visual language. Subsequent projects automatically apply the company’s colors, typography, and style guidelines.

• Multimodal inputs – Supports image and document uploads, as well as a web‑capture tool for snapping elements from a company’s website.

• Export & sharing – Designs can be shared directly or exported to Claude Code. Integration capabilities are slated for expansion in the coming weeks.

Integration & Ecosystem

Claude Design launched alongside visual AI assistants from Adobe and Canva. Notably, Claude projects can be exported to Canva, positioning Anthropic as both a competitor and a complementary tool within the visual‑AI landscape.

Availability

Claude Design is available to subscribers of Anthropic’s Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with usage subject to the respective plan’s limits.