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Re: Claude Design

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Post by paulryanrogers »

Growtika wrote: post #199

For my agency this won't replace Figma or designers. It's just a really useful tool to express yourself and communicate intent. Before these tools, when a client wanted a specific section built, we'd spend hours hunting references across the web. The output always ended up feeling like a mesh of 2-3 sites, never fully unique. Then we'd burn more time explaining the intent to the client's designers and devs, usually w…

> It's not replacing designers.

Except it is. Plenty of places will say this is all good enough and not hire, or even lay off, the UI/UX person. I've seen this firsthand.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

Bilal_io wrote: post #109
GenerWork wrote: post #64

If you look at Figmas stock price, it started falling right at 11 AM as this news was released. Anyways, this is 100% a shot at Figma, but also catching Lovable in the crossfire. If anybody from Anthropic is reading this, if you keep developing this with features in Figma and other design tools, you'll have a major hit on your hands.

The folks at Wall Street do not understand this does not replace Figma. Figma is targeted towards designers who create thoughtful design systems and cohesive UIs and who don't code, while this is targeted towards vibe coders who can't design. Two different circles that intersect to some level. But like you said, if anthropic adds the tools in Figma, only then they can can take customers from Figma IMO.

> this does not replace Figma

It probably reduces the tasks which customers might engage an agency using Figma, though. Down the line, creeping onto Figma’s turf absolutely becomes a strategy for Anthropic.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by jampekka »

AlienRobot wrote: post #396
thewebguyd wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll still die on this hill, but I think that the reason there's a computer literacy problem is because we moved away from following OS conventions (when they existed) and into bespoke, branded UIs for everything, and then eventually to web where every site and webapp behaves differently. In the early days, if you learned the OS, those usage patterns and skilled transferred to every app on that OS. They all looked ro…

Not all OS's, unfortunately. I'm on the boat that says conforming to Gnome HIG's is a bad idea. Just today I had the disk usage analyzer (baobab) open and I was navigating inside directories so I want to go up a directory and clicked on the " If this app had a traditional menubar and a toolbar this wouldn't have happened. This is a common type of experience I have every time I use a Gnome app. It almost feels like so…

To me Gnome mostly feels like someone deliberately researched how to make desktop apps as intuitive as possible and implemented that as the policy. And I guess that's what they did, and they did a good job.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by gck1 »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #264
Bilal_io wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The folks at Wall Street do not understand this does not replace Figma. Figma is targeted towards designers who create thoughtful design systems and cohesive UIs and who don't code, while this is targeted towards vibe coders who can't design. Two different circles that intersect to some level. But like you said, if anthropic adds the tools in Figma, only then they can can take customers from Figma IMO.

All Figma has spent the last 2 years doing is trying to get designers to use their Cursor/Claude Code text to code app. Not convinced Figma cares about traditional design craft anymore.

My SO is a UX designer and uses Figma. She wanted to try out Claude integration there, but was frustrated by limitations - like why she can't export interactive elements to Figma file format so that they can be edited further.

So I helped her look into it and I was shocked to find out that it just a react slop generator, not a Figma file generator. And extremely limited at that, too.

Who is Figma targeting with this exactly? Developers, who are interested in react apps will simply use claude code, and UX designers don't really care for react apps.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by olalonde »

stevage wrote: post #548
teiferer wrote: post #521

Earlier quoted context omitted.

McDonalds. Homogenous everywhere in the world. US, Italy, Japan, Brazil, same stuff. Good pizza in Italy, goos ramen in Japan, grilled Picanha in Brazil, that's why you go there and want it different/original. But in software UI this is often overdone. I want the pizzazz in my audio software in what it produces , not in how the UI looks like.

McDonald's is extremely different around the world. Different menu, different price.

"extremely"

Re: Claude Design

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Post by gck1 »

tristanb wrote: post #483

My feedback for whatever it's worth as a 25yr design veteran. * Massive token usage, some small tasks burned through $50 of credits and did not offer $50 of value. * Terrible at logo work. Comically bad. This is something that is "hard" so it could add great value if it could deliver. * Repeatedly forgot prior feedback - when iterating it would re-implement prior iterations after being told why we didn't want that re…

I'm curious, is there anything out there that will get you the 80% of logo work? Claude opus always came closest to me as a non-designer, but it was always still something far from usable.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by raphman »

poly2it wrote: post #369

I'm not sure if I'm holding it wrong, but at these usage rates, I can hardly see this being useful for designers in their daily work. In two prompts using the Max 20x plan, it consumed 11% of my weekly limit for Claude Design, which is separate from your normal limits. A day of work would exhaust over four weeks of usage. Is this meant for intermittent use only? Lately I've been getting the feeling that Anthropic is…

Yeah. I'm only on the Pro plan and immediately reached my weekly Claude Design quota by having it create a slide template (with much too small text) and three versions of a system dashboard design (rather nice). No iterations.

Another thing: I realized how much I hate waiting for Claude to finish its thing. With UI designs, a quick interaction loop between tool and user feels much more important than with code.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by chrisweekly »

MisterPea wrote: post #387
mickeyp wrote: post #296

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Indeed. Kitbashing is a thing, and it was always a thing. Designers I worked with would spend hours doomscrolling pinterest, google images, etc. looking for their, uh... 'spark' when they were given a briefing. This is just a really cool way of building. I'm impressed. I tried Google Stitch but it was slow and useless. Sad, because Gemini has a pretty good creative flair, ironically enough.

Stitch has been very good for me to prototype some designs, and the exporting design feature is great. But jeez, is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times. Complete shift in google's old engineering culture of high quality - they seem to be shipping quickly in favor of stability

"in favor" is hard to parse; "instead"?
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