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Re: Claude Design

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Post by twobitshifter »

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…

1. This workflow is beneficial for a per design pricing model not hourly.

2. Long term you can expect the minimum bar for aesthetically pleasing design to be raised and there to be overall less demand for human produced generic design.

3. This will mean all designers get pushed into the same corner or complex, unique, uninferable design and trying to fight it out.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by solenoid0937 »

bensons1 wrote: post #587
solenoid0937 wrote: post #461

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Automation allows us to do more.

Up until you feel automated.

I am okay with being automated. I'll try to go up the next abstraction layer or do something else.

I also understand that our wonderful quality of life is due to automation, and sometimes that means I draw the short straw. That's okay.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by twobitshifter »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #461
siva7 wrote: post #418

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If we expect Anthropic not only trying to replace just all software developers with Claude, but also all software product companies with Claude, then i really wanna know why the fuck are we cheering here for Anthropic on Hacker News? What kind of dumb sheep would do this?

Automation allows us to do more.

After it all is done, what is left to do, but find more? Why don't we rest, relax, and enjoy our few passing years?

Re: Claude Design

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Post by bluegatty »

mbesto wrote: post #450
mjr00 wrote: post #55

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There's no shame in being homogenous and obvious, though. If I'm building out an internal tool for, say, a hospital lawyer to search through malpractice lawsuits, I want my tool to be the most familiar, obvious, least-surprising UI/UX possible. Just stay out of the way and do what it's supposed to do. The trick is, of course, that the human is still responsible for knowing when homogenous is fine, or when there's rea…

> There's no shame in being homogenous and obvious, though. The real world analog is this... The reason people (especially Americans) stay in Marriott property hotels is because they are homogenous. If all I want to do is travel to Phoenix, AZ for work I want to know that the hotel room has the same mattress, desk, TV, customer service, etc. There is real legitimate value to that. So I'll book the Courtyard in Phoeni…

The 'real world' analogy is much simpler: standards.

Canonical UX patterns are generally beneficial and most 'design' attempts are well-meaning dark patterns.

Xerox figured out windows, scroll bars, buttons, groups in the 1970s and most web interfaces are STILL not up to that standard!

Heck - they're not as good as Visual Basic apps from the 1990s.

Largely due to lack of design discipline.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by dannyw »

qingcharles wrote: post #477
satvikpendem wrote: post #468

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I too use Stitch, seems like not many have heard of it. Stitch also asks good questions, do you have any examples of both side by side with the same prompt or idea?

Really annoying but I can't figure out how to share a link from Claude Design? It seems to only allow you to share the design with other people on your account? It'll let me export all the HTML and assets, but that's a bit rough to have to download it all and upload it to a host somewhere just to send it to a client for review or something. On Stitch you can just grab a link to the design.

If you use Canva, you can send to Canva and then publish it as a website (public web URL) in a couple clicks

Re: Claude Design

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Post by buzzerbetrayed »

jameslk wrote: post #575
paulryanrogers wrote: post #551

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> 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.

I have seen this as well, except the UI ends up all looking similar, because the harness prompt and training data doesn’t change much The average becomes the same shade of gray. Familiarity breeds contempt. New types of design will emerge that are expensive to copy, because differentiation drives competition

Which is perfectly adequate for 95% of applications. Hell, it’d probably improve most applications if they adopted some proven shade of gray.

Why do people feel that each and every tool they use needs its own unique look and feel? And why are people willing to pay more for that? In some cases, sure. For my smart sprinkler app.. I don’t give a damn if it looks like 1000 other apps.

Re: Claude Design

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Post by crambelsoupy »

I'm a max plan customer, use Anthropic products A LOT and am generally impressed with Claude Code. But this is not even close to being ready for release. Below is the transcript of me trying to initialize a design system. Pretty disappointing, this clearly wasn't tested by humans.

Exact Transcript as follows:

-- Claude: Let me fix these precisely:

-- Me: ok

-- Claude:

-- Me: hello?

-- Claude:

-- Me: there's still some issues with 01 live and 02 - your business.

-- Claude:

-- Me: hello?

-- Claude: Sorry about that. Let me look at those two and figure out what's still wrong.

--- Me: hello?

-- Claude: Screenshot _illo_check.html Viewing image illustration-pillar-1.svg Viewing image illustration-pillar-2.svg

Re: Claude Design

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Post by bdangubic »

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #607
jameslk wrote: post #575

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I have seen this as well, except the UI ends up all looking similar, because the harness prompt and training data doesn’t change much The average becomes the same shade of gray. Familiarity breeds contempt. New types of design will emerge that are expensive to copy, because differentiation drives competition

Which is perfectly adequate for 95% of applications. Hell, it’d probably improve most applications if they adopted some proven shade of gray. Why do people feel that each and every tool they use needs its own unique look and feel? And why are people willing to pay more for that? In some cases, sure. For my smart sprinkler app.. I don’t give a damn if it looks like 1000 other apps.

I’d actually prefer if all of them looked and worked the same, especially useful if you have elderly family members you need to teach how to use app for XYZ. all government websites (especially functional ones that citizens use to do something on) for instance should be exactly the same

Re: Claude Design

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Post by deaux »

martinald wrote: post #105

Interesting! I wrote this approach up (more or less - extract design system -> make templates -> export) some time ago and I've found it unbelievably powerful: https://martinalderson.com/posts/how-to-make-great-looking-c... . I use it all day every day with Claude Code. I sometimes wonder past code if this has had the biggest impact on my day to day productivity, either having to make do with semi-bad looking reports…

> Sort of feel sorry for Figma in a way though, given all the "partnerships" (highlighting their MCPs) and case studies they've done with Anthropic and then they release this. I note there isn't a testimonial from them this time.

Those partnerships and the MCP were intentionally always watered down. It was purely a play for some cheap exposure without providing anything meaningful.

The very obvious thing for the MCP to expose, that everyone asks for, is to be able to create and edit Figma designs. You can't, likely because they're scared it will kill their product. It's one way: Figma->Agent, no Agent->Figma. They will come around to this one day, potentially when it's already too late. Will be interesting to see how long they wait.

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