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.
Is there a way one can do DTP using LLMs? InDesign only integrates image generating, if I'm not mistaken. .
LLMs still seem to really struggle with layout. These design tools seem to work well for designs that flow naturally like webpages.
But try and design say an “An A4 poster with a hero image, main text saying this, details next to the image and fine print at bottom” and you end up with pretty poor results.
It is actually a rational choice. It is a defense against extremely bad experiences. A personal example from a few weeks back. My SO booked a hotel for a weekend as a birthday present. We went there, it had a fantastic spa, dinner was delicious, the room great, clean, and so on. Individually designed, well thought out, friendly staff. Breakfast came around and the coffee was abysmal. Really truly abysmal. What did we…
> Marriott is basically the same for hotels. Marriotts are sadly not the same between countries, and that's probably a good thing. The standard for large chain hotels in the US are much, much lower than everywhere else in the world. Full-service Hiltons in the US don't even have executive lounges anymore.
> The standard for large chain hotels in the US are much, much lower than everywhere else in the world.
this is true for fast food as well. mcdonalds in poland and spain were MUCH better than the slop in america. I had taco bell here in srilanka recently. it was DELICIOUS and tasted like real food. same goes for popeyes and pizza hut here. pizza hut in america on the other hand tastes regrettable and left me feeling like shit.
> You'll get a competent UI with little effort but nothing truly unique or mind-blowing. 90+% of attempts at making a truly unique or mind-blowing UI produce a mind-blowingly bad UI. For 0.5 seconds of wow factor, you've added substantial unnecessary friction. Outside of art projects where that wow factor is the point, it really should not be attempted, most certainly not by someone without the appropriate skillset.…
I agree, only the very best designs (and their designers) can nicely mix utility and beauty (or the wow factor, it’s hard to define). And people sometimes overestimate their designs because beauty is subjective, and because all children are beautiful in the eyes of their parent. Also, there’s a reason why the mass adopted plastic, monobloc, stackable chair design is worldwide common and is studied as a cornerstone of…
The core principles of interface design (even graphic design to a slightly lesser extent) have nothing to do with aesthetics. People, mostly developers, dick around with an interface’s aesthetics until they get something that looks cool… but the design still sucks because they didn’t do the actual design parts— knowing exactly what the design communicates to the user about program state, available actions, etc etc etc just through things like information hierarchy, gestalt, visual patterns, focus through visual composition, and things like that. Things that are well-designed are easy to make look cool because they’re sane, organized, and have subconscious meaning to the user. A good interface designer will spend as much time on aesthetics as a chef spends on plating. It’s a nice bonus, but you can have beautifully plated food that sucks, or horrific-looking food that’s phenomenal. I do the world’s biggest facepalm when I see projects doing things like adding customizable color themes in response to people saying their UX sucks.
the real unlock here isn't the design output. it's that non-designers can now have a visual conversation instead of writing a 3 page spec that nobody reads.
half the design problems I've seen weren't bad taste. they were bad communication between the person who knew what they wanted and the person who could build it.
This take is the death of joy. Look up in an old city, look at the facades of the buildings. They have quirks, uniqueness, it makes the city almost a living thing. Every time we shave off another edge we lose that. Nevermind the fact that shoehorning everything into the same patterns is actually an antipattern and very good paradigms have been invented after the 90s. It's not perfect, but I'd rather have a bit of a m…
Facade are to be looked at, not to be used. Most things that are to be used in a practical manner has retained the same basic form: desks, chair, handle, cart, cup,…
Dunno, I have been in IKEA and saw 50 types of drawer handles, for example :)
(Same for car interior design, or things like even doors that some swivels on one axis, some split on multiple, some slide.)
I don't think that us humans really actually like/want standarts. We think we do, but there are 100+1+1 standart from which to choose. So Claude becoming "standart" iš just +1 standart to choose from. Unique is fun!
> Marriott is basically the same for hotels. Marriotts are sadly not the same between countries, and that's probably a good thing. The standard for large chain hotels in the US are much, much lower than everywhere else in the world. Full-service Hiltons in the US don't even have executive lounges anymore.
> The standard for large chain hotels in the US are much, much lower than everywhere else in the world. this is true for fast food as well. mcdonalds in poland and spain were MUCH better than the slop in america. I had taco bell here in srilanka recently. it was DELICIOUS and tasted like real food. same goes for popeyes and pizza hut here. pizza hut in america on the other hand tastes regrettable and left me feeling…
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.
As with anything, it depends on the quality and skills of the people doing the designing. I have yet to really work with a designer that embedded themselves enough in the UX to design anything I thought was good.
Granted, I have not worked with that many designers so it’s maybe small N problem.
The gap between figma and where our front end teams work and design is still too large.
I think the more likely result of this is fewer designers and more work for developers with some design skills.
This isn’t going to replace Figma. It’s going to replace the people who use Figma.
My 76yo Dad just used Claude Design to make a simple commercial tenancy/lease management CRUD app. We handed what he built to Claude Code to implement within my existing business tech stack. It perfectly followed my coding & testing playbooks (basically a multi-file CLAUDE.md with prompt & command hooks to evaluate conformance). It works… exactly as my Dad imagined.
Now, mind you, my Dad had some outdated UI expectations (he asked Claude Design to style use a Windows 98 aesthetic!), but my point is: we just built a fully-functional, deeply tested, domain-expert-designed app, in less than a day.
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