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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

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Re: Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

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Post by apsurd »

skydhash wrote: post #113
apsurd wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find that with the ubiquity of Tailwind, developers treat design as a "solved problem". What's missing is the specific evolution of one's product and the resultant information architecture. The sibling response is my experience as well, design is an incredibly interactive exercise. Granted, not every component on every surface will need this amount of scrutiny. But I'm usually the outlier developer warning teammate…

Even with bootstrap, design was a solved problem. What you bring with a UI designer is appeal (aka make thing pretty and enjoyable). If you want utilitarian, even the old x11 toolkit like Athena, Win 98 era widgets would do the part.

This is just completely false. But I have a feeling there's no way you're going to change your mind.

"make things pretty" would be a graphic designer or artist. Are you saying the entire arm of Product design is a made up value?

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Post by uxcolumbo »

alwillis wrote: post #110
uxcolumbo wrote: post #37

I miss the days of having a native desktop design app with a perpetual license. What Figma achieved technically in the 2010s was amazing. Coded the app in C++ and then used WASM to deliver it as a multiplayer web app. But now it's trying to be too many things. Why did they ever feel the need to add slides and this other stuff. Their MCP is poor (sure, they'll improve it). The app struggles with larger files and perfo…

> I miss the days of having a native desktop design app with a perpetual license. You can go that route with Affinity Designer [1], owned by Canva, who partnered with Anthropic on Claude Design [2]: We’ve loved collaborating with Anthropic over the past couple of years and share a deep focus on making complex things simple. At Canva, our mission has always been to empower the world to design, and that means bringing…

I have it, jumped on the affinity band wagon years ago after Adobe started their enshittification process.

After Canva bought Affinity, you now have to authenticate with your email from time to time when you launch the desktop app. Annoying and why do they do that?

Might go back to Affinity 2.

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Post by satvikpendem »

alkonaut wrote: post #17

So let me get this straight (Pretend I'm 50, a developer since childhood, but I can't CSS to save my life) are there shops where developers, even front end developers, have to talk to designers who are't just sketching an idea for a logo or landing page, but designers who run this Figma thing and maintain the entire products "design" in some "style database"? And the idea is that these designers - who aren't develope…

In a bigger company, yes, as it's required to make sure every engineer implements everything in the same way without differences in style over time.

Re: Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

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Post by deadbabe »

alwillis wrote: post #119
mickdarling wrote: post #51

I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I got something that was satisfactory. Then I looked at the usage and it said I had used 95% of my Claude design usage for the week! This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything, if that's what they're providing as examples.

Things to keep in mind: • Claude Design uses Opus 4.7, which is more expensive than earlier models. • It's just Day 2; it's not a finished product. It's ridiculous how quickly Anthropic iterates. • If you've been using Claude for a while, Design already knows your style and preferences. You'd have to start from scratch using a different AI design tool. I don’t doubt that'll pay dividends in the long run.

It will never be cheaper than what it is today. Anthropic is heavily subsidizing.

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Post by nitroedge »

manyatoms wrote: post #75
juliusceasar wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the times people just want a bike or a car. Not everybody needs an airplane. This is going to hit Figma very hard.

> Most of the times people just want a bike with a pelican on it

that runs on a local model and looks better than Opus

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Post by miohtama »

alwillis wrote: post #119
mickdarling wrote: post #51

I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I got something that was satisfactory. Then I looked at the usage and it said I had used 95% of my Claude design usage for the week! This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything, if that's what they're providing as examples.

Things to keep in mind: • Claude Design uses Opus 4.7, which is more expensive than earlier models. • It's just Day 2; it's not a finished product. It's ridiculous how quickly Anthropic iterates. • If you've been using Claude for a while, Design already knows your style and preferences. You'd have to start from scratch using a different AI design tool. I don’t doubt that'll pay dividends in the long run.

They can iterate fast, because their devs and only their devs have access to the best Claude Code on the planet.

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Post by qingcharles »

mickdarling wrote: post #51

I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I got something that was satisfactory. Then I looked at the usage and it said I had used 95% of my Claude design usage for the week! This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything, if that's what they're providing as examples.

It produced great results for me, in 10 mins, and then my usage was blown and now I have to wait a week. It did let me export the ZIP, though. I tried throwing the contents of the ZIP into Stitch With Google, but it didn't work very well.

Re: Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

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Post by nitroedge »

I tried Claude Design yesterday and fed it the UI of an app I am working on and what I had created already. I asked it to mock up 6 new "layout skins" using different colors, different icon and button placements, different vibes and it churned out 6 good designs with hi-res images plus Claude Code instructions and the ZIP file to boot. Didn't hit the usage, took about an hour. Did a really good overall and I liked the process and thinking structure and question asking.

Re: Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

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Post by nslsm »

thunderfork wrote: post #115
nslsm wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very easy to know when code is wrong: it doesn't work the way it's expected to. So you explain to the AI what's wrong and the AI fixes it.

As we know from THERAC-25, etc., comprehensively verifying that code works the way it's expected to is not actually very easy - it's perhaps one of the hardest parts of building any system more complex than a toaster.

Thankfully the CRUD app that is being developed by some random startup is not likely to cause as much harm as the THERAC.
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