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Sol- wrote: post #6

Boss0565 wrote: post #4

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Considering Canva collaborated with them, no?

Maybe a collaboration with a metaphorical gun to your head.

Canva has more expansive editing tools but I agree, it seems like a frenemies situation.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by sbszllr » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

It's interesting how OpenAI and Anthropic effectively mass dumped a bunch of similar features in the last two days.

I wonder what other features they're cooking right now.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by recitedropper » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

hmokiguess wrote: post #8

Who’s the end user for this? I struggle to relate but then again I also don’t use Figma so I may not be the target demographic I have been doing fine just instructing Claude code to use Tailwind and reference design documents

Seems to me like Anthropic is desperately trying to find as many product-market fits as possible before they IPO. They're reaching a chaotic weekly release cadence--each new product chockful of unclear, overlapping capability with their previous.

Combine that with the obvious hackernews manipulation that somehow gets each and every haphazard release instantly to the top, and you can see they're starting to feel some real heat.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by namanyayg » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

The Anthropic team looks to be eating all the usecases and application layer. I personally know of many figma + AI startups that are going to feel shaken up with this launch.

Anthropic has distribution on their side, their engineers are excellent (I have ran with them across the ggb in the past and they work 12 hours plus a day regularly.)

I think what actually might be slowing them down is the public releases and pr lol, not ideas or execution

Re: Claude Design

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Post by ljm » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

I reckon something like this has only been possible to develop because of how homogenous the internet has become in terms of design ever since the glass effect and drop-shadows took over in Web 2.0 and Twitter Bootstrap entered the scene.

You'll get a competent UI with little effort but nothing truly unique or mind-blowing.

Impressive technology, but that old skool artisanal weirdness of yore only becomes more valuable and nostalgic.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by dumfries » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 3:30 PM UTC

mikeaskew4 wrote: post #11

Thumbs down. Great design is original thought. AI is wholly incapable of that. Go ahead and roast me.

As if original thought occurs out of thin air. AI is definitely capable to take aspects of design and apply it elsewhere.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by atonse » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 3:30 PM UTC

I've been spending the last two days building a large number of mockups for a new product. Literally the last two days.

I'm wondering how i can CONTINUE that in this design thing, can i import something? Because they show it the other way... you can start and edit, and then export to claude code.

Until then, I guess it's back to just using CC