The Claude Design Masterclass: What Nobody is Telling You

CChase AI
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00:00:00Claude design is the best thing to happen
00:00:01to your front end work since skills came onto the scene.
00:00:05But if you don't know what you're doing,
00:00:06you will run through your entire usage quota
00:00:09before you can get a landing page up.
00:00:11But this Claude design masterclass
00:00:12will help solve that problem
00:00:14as I show you which features are actually worth your time.
00:00:17On top of that, we will do a head-to-head test
00:00:19with normal Claude code versus Claude design.
00:00:22And we'll talk about some of the interesting use cases
00:00:25that go beyond simple landing page work.
00:00:27This is an awesome tool and we have a lot to cover.
00:00:30So let's hop in.
00:00:31So Claude design is Anthropix response to Stitch from Google.
00:00:35And just like Google Stitch,
00:00:37it gives us the ability to create a bunch of visual mockups
00:00:40for our web apps, mobile apps, and even slide decks.
00:00:43To access Claude design, it has to be on the web app.
00:00:45So claud.ai/design.
00:00:47It's not available in Claude code
00:00:48and it is not available on the desktop app.
00:00:51And speaking of limitations,
00:00:52one big limitation we need to call out right away
00:00:54is the usage limits.
00:00:56It has its own weekly limit and it's the same limit
00:00:59whether you're on Pro, Max 5, or 20X.
00:01:02And this thing is a resource hog,
00:01:05especially if you use a certain tool
00:01:08we will talk about later in this video.
00:01:10But even with those limitations,
00:01:11Claude design is a huge leap forward
00:01:14when it comes to front-end design work with Claude.
00:01:17Things like the tweak system make it very easy to see
00:01:20how different changes would adjust the overall feel
00:01:23of your web app.
00:01:23Stuff like edit allows you to very quickly get into the weeds
00:01:28and change things on a granular level
00:01:30without relying on text prompts.
00:01:31But if you wanna stick with the comment system,
00:01:33we can do that.
00:01:34They have an actual comment button
00:01:35where I can select individual parts of the web app
00:01:39and leave comments that either go straight to Claude code
00:01:42or get added to a comment queue for other members of my team
00:01:46to add their thoughts because this is very collaborative.
00:01:48You can share these designs with other people
00:01:50and you can all work on the same thing from different places.
00:01:53I can draw on the app to show what I want changed.
00:01:56I can very easily see the presentation in full screen.
00:02:00And most importantly,
00:02:02I can very easily export this to Claude code.
00:02:05And this design visual forward setup makes it so much easier
00:02:09to get the sort of front-end outputs you want
00:02:11instead of being purely inside of Claude code
00:02:13and having to do this code dev server refresh back the code
00:02:18dynamic we've had for a long time.
00:02:19But to get the most out of this tool,
00:02:21there are some things you got to know.
00:02:22So we are gonna first start with front-end design work
00:02:25for a web app, which is what most people are looking for.
00:02:29And we will also show what Claude code would have given us
00:02:33versus Claude design.
00:02:34So you can kind of see what we're getting here
00:02:37and if this is even worth it.
00:02:38But before we do that, a quick word from our sponsor, me.
00:02:42So we just released the Claude code masterclass
00:02:44instead of chase AI plus.
00:02:45And it is the number one way to go from zero to AI dev,
00:02:48especially if you don't come from a technical background.
00:02:51And lately we've been focusing on our agentic OS system
00:02:54inside of the masterclass,
00:02:55where we use Claude code as an engine
00:02:58and we supplement it with obsidian for memory,
00:03:00with GWS to attach our entire Google suite.
00:03:03And then with this foundation,
00:03:05attaching any and all customized skill packs,
00:03:09we can come up with that makes sense for our use cases.
00:03:12And we even talk about how to package that all
00:03:14and sell it to clients.
00:03:15So if that is something you're interested in,
00:03:17definitely check it out.
00:03:18It's inside of chase AI plus,
00:03:19there will be a link in the pin comment.
00:03:21So let's talk Claude design and your web app,
00:03:24because there's a few decisions we need to make
00:03:26before we even start prompting this thing.
00:03:28And now I'm gonna be moving all over the screen
00:03:31during this video, so bear with me.
00:03:32Now, first question we're gonna ask ourself is,
00:03:35are we going to use a design system?
00:03:38So here for me, you see none
00:03:40and you see an agentic OS design system.
00:03:42Yours, we'll say none at first.
00:03:44If we wanna create a design system,
00:03:47we're gonna come up here
00:03:48and we're gonna go to design systems.
00:03:50So you probably won't have anything here
00:03:52and you will hit create.
00:03:53Now, what is a design system?
00:03:56Well, essentially it's like a visual template
00:04:00that you can apply to any project you create down the line.
00:04:03So if you have specific fonts, you use specific logos,
00:04:07specific anything, even if it's just like a general mood,
00:04:10you can do that here.
00:04:11This is where you set that up.
00:04:12So you don't have to repeat yourself
00:04:13for every single project.
00:04:15If you have some sort of like through line
00:04:17from a design visual standpoint.
00:04:20So you enter your company name
00:04:21and then you provide examples.
00:04:23Now, these examples can be code.
00:04:25So I can link a GitHub repo.
00:04:27I can drag a folder into here.
00:04:29I can upload files.
00:04:30I can add fonts, assets, whatever.
00:04:33This is where you define your brand.
00:04:36Now, caveat.
00:04:39This is what I was talking about when I was saying token hog.
00:04:42And by token hog, I mean running a design system
00:04:45will A, take somewhere between five and 15 minutes
00:04:47'cause it ingests everything, kind of depends on the size.
00:04:50And B, this will take about 20 to 25% of your usage
00:04:55right off the rip.
00:04:56So understand that, don't come in here thinking,
00:04:57oh, the first thing I'm gonna do
00:04:58is just rip off like five design systems.
00:05:00Absolutely not, absolutely not.
00:05:02Do one if you know what you wanna do
00:05:05and I'll show you what it sort of looks like
00:05:07as we set that up.
00:05:08But don't do any more than that.
00:05:09At least not now until they up the limits
00:05:11which they probably will in the future.
00:05:12So resource hog, resource hog, resource hog,
00:05:16don't get screwed by this.
00:05:17Now, if you do wanna do this,
00:05:19you're just gonna fill this all out
00:05:20and then you'll hit continue to generation
00:05:21and a pop-up box will show something like,
00:05:24hey, this is gonna take five to 15 minutes.
00:05:26Once it completes ingesting all those assets,
00:05:29you will get something like this
00:05:30where it asks you to review the draft design system
00:05:33it came up with.
00:05:34What I fed it was the code for my agentic OS dashboard
00:05:38that I showed you a little bit earlier.
00:05:40It's got kind of this clod color theme.
00:05:43It's got specific text font, all that.
00:05:45So this is what I fed it,
00:05:46was essentially this sort of visual.
00:05:48And it came back with all of this.
00:05:49So, hey, this looks good.
00:05:53This looks good.
00:05:53Hey, look at that mascot.
00:05:54Looks kind of familiar.
00:05:55That looks good.
00:05:57Voice goes through all the colors.
00:05:59So it gets down in like very, very like nitty gritty
00:06:03of like, okay, like what do you want these colors to be?
00:06:06What do you want the cards to look like?
00:06:07It's very specific.
00:06:08It's really nice.
00:06:09And again, very reminiscent of Stitch.
00:06:11Very, very reminiscent of this sort of thing.
00:06:14And so I went ahead and approved everything.
00:06:16It's saying it's missing brand font.
00:06:17So if I had specific fonts I always wanted to use,
00:06:20I can upload them as well.
00:06:21And at any point I can come back here
00:06:23'cause it kind of broke down all the component stuff,
00:06:26click on it, and then take a look and edit it as needed.
00:06:30And just like what you will see later
00:06:31with the actual landing pages and the slide decks
00:06:33and all that, we can share this, right,
00:06:36to a team or whatever, or I can export it.
00:06:39Like PowerPoint PDF, we can send it to Canva, HTML,
00:06:42clod code, really, really easy, just one click away.
00:06:44Also, we have the actual design files.
00:06:46So I can look inside here and see everything that's going on,
00:06:50the actual HTML files and all that themselves.
00:06:52So there's a lot you can customize and play around here.
00:06:55It is not a black box at all where it's like,
00:06:57well, I hope clod design came up with something good.
00:06:59Who knows what's going on underneath the surface?
00:07:01No, you have insight.
00:07:03Like this is all code.
00:07:04Like this is a cool way for it to make code
00:07:06and we can take that code into our own local machine
00:07:09at any moment.
00:07:10We're not stuck here.
00:07:11And so to bring it back to clod design and web apps,
00:07:13that's the first question we're answering.
00:07:15Are we gonna use a design system?
00:07:16Is this something in the same vein visually
00:07:18of what we've done in the past?
00:07:19And more importantly,
00:07:20did you even create a design system at all?
00:07:22Have you given up your 20% of your weekly tokens
00:07:25to the anthropic gods and already even have this option?
00:07:28Now for this demo, we're just gonna stick with none.
00:07:30So we're all operating on the same sheet of music.
00:07:32The next question becomes, hey,
00:07:33do I wanna do a wireframe or do I wanna do high fidelity?
00:07:37Chances are you'll wanna do high fidelity.
00:07:39So you can see what it's actually going to look like.
00:07:41But again, hey, if you wanna do wireframe,
00:07:43you can always go back and forth.
00:07:44You aren't stuck to one or the other.
00:07:45But for this, we'll do high fidelity.
00:07:47So we'll call this CD demo and we're going to create.
00:07:50Then it's gonna bring us here and ask us for context.
00:07:53So do you have that design system or just a screenshot
00:07:56or a code base or a Figma file?
00:07:58Regardless, if you are starting from scratch at step zero,
00:08:01or if you have a code base,
00:08:03you wanna feed it something, ideally.
00:08:05If you have a code base, like we talked about,
00:08:07you've already been working on an app, give it to this.
00:08:09Give it to clod design.
00:08:10It's gonna work better.
00:08:12But even if you aren't and you're starting from zero,
00:08:14I highly suggest at a minimum,
00:08:16you go out there in the world
00:08:18and you find some sort of inspiration you like,
00:08:20whether that's from dribble or awards or godly websites,
00:08:23anything, right?
00:08:25Starting from a blank slate and expecting clod design
00:08:27to do all the heavy lifting,
00:08:28'cause I bet your prompt will suck.
00:08:30Just understand the less context you give it,
00:08:33the higher chance you have a regression to the mean.
00:08:35So just understand that going in.
00:08:36We have the ability to do sketches.
00:08:38So, you know, we can actually draw on here
00:08:40and be like, okay, here's our image.
00:08:44I want the text over here.
00:08:48And then I want the hero image.
00:08:53Hero image over here.
00:08:59And then let's do scrolling banner.
00:09:10We'll give it something,
00:09:12even if it's some brilliant piece of art like this.
00:09:15And you can do a lot more than just that.
00:09:16We can switch the pen, right?
00:09:18We can put in text.
00:09:19I can put in different, like, I can add sticky notes.
00:09:21So there's a lot to do here.
00:09:25And from here, you just gotta prompt the thing.
00:09:28You also have the ability to change up the model.
00:09:30Opus 4.7 is what I would suggest,
00:09:33because especially if you're adding stuff like screenshots,
00:09:35Opus 4.7 has the highest fidelity
00:09:37and the highest resolutions for the screenshot.
00:09:403X what you are getting with Opus 4.6.
00:09:42So now let's give it a prompt.
00:09:44I'm saying building landing page for Argus,
00:09:46a social media intelligence platform
00:09:48that helps creators spot trending topics
00:09:49in their niche before they blow up.
00:09:51That's a layout, you know,
00:09:53pretty much mirroring what you wrote here.
00:09:55So that is as lame of a prompt as we can give it.
00:09:58Basic SaaS type thing.
00:10:00So let's see what it comes up with.
00:10:02And here's what Claw Design came up with,
00:10:03with a very minimal prompt and no context outside of us
00:10:06just scribbling on the page.
00:10:08And it's this, which I think is decent for a first pass.
00:10:13In terms of usage, usage alert, 4%.
00:10:16Took 4% of our total weekly usage
00:10:18to gen up this landing page.
00:10:20And here's what Cloud Code gave us
00:10:21with the exact same prompt,
00:10:22using the front end design skill as well.
00:10:25Not bad.
00:10:26I mean, some minor things we can rip on right away,
00:10:28which is like, hey, the text is cut off here and here.
00:10:32There's not as much wrong on this one.
00:10:35Text does get kind of overlapped here.
00:10:39It shows rising now down here,
00:10:41which also kind of overlaps, but pretty close.
00:10:45I mean, to be honest,
00:10:46I like the design one a little bit more,
00:10:47but I could see someone liking this one
00:10:49a little more as well.
00:10:50So first pass, not a massive difference.
00:10:52So why use Claw Design?
00:10:54Where does it begin to pull away?
00:10:55Well, it begins to pull away
00:10:56when we begin talking about variations
00:10:59and being able to iterate.
00:11:00And you see that right away with tweaks.
00:11:03So the ability for me to do this is a big thing.
00:11:07Me being able to change the headline very quickly
00:11:10or see the ticker.
00:11:13And we can expand upon this as well.
00:11:16So I wrote increase the amount of tweaks aggressively.
00:11:18I wanna be able to play around with this as much as possible.
00:11:20So let's see what it comes back with.
00:11:22All right, so now we can see it added way more tweaks
00:11:26for us to mess with.
00:11:27And what was the usage rate?
00:11:30Adding all these tweaks added 7%.
00:11:32So you can see that just from adding a landing page
00:11:36and like 14 tweaks, we've already used up, what is that?
00:11:39About 11% of our total.
00:11:40Now, I think the tweaks is important.
00:11:43I talked earlier in the intro,
00:11:44like what are the features we actually want to hone in on
00:11:47when it comes to Claw Design?
00:11:48'Cause when we just did the one shot,
00:11:49it wasn't crazy different than what I got
00:11:51with the front end design skill.
00:11:52Well, these tweaks and the ability to mess
00:11:55with all these things and these subtle changes quickly,
00:11:59right, that is really the power of Claw Design.
00:12:02So I'm gonna zoom out a little bit
00:12:03so we can see the tweaks in action a little bit better,
00:12:05but I can do everything now from the palette to the accents,
00:12:10corner radius, background grid, no background grid,
00:12:14fonts, emphasis, headline differences, layout switches, right?
00:12:19This is the power here.
00:12:21The power isn't like, oh, it can one shot the UI design
00:12:23and the UI design off the rip is so good.
00:12:25No, it's the fact that I can actually iterate very quickly,
00:12:29very quickly, this is, think of how fast I'm doing this
00:12:33and think about how fast it would take
00:12:34to run through all of this inside of Claude code.
00:12:36I mean, we can even change the niche
00:12:39of what like social media thing it's looking at
00:12:41in this image from AI and tech to gaming, to finance.
00:12:46Thank God I can adjust the ticker speed
00:12:47'cause this thing was flying, but yeah, this is awesome.
00:12:52This is part one and I think there's two things.
00:12:54Well, actually there's a few more than that,
00:12:56but tweaks I think is the number one value add from design
00:12:59because it's all about visual iteration.
00:13:01And in my opinion, the second most impactful feature
00:13:04of Claude design is the variance of the web pages.
00:13:07So tweaks is very micro, right?
00:13:09Like we're talking like colors, we're talking accents,
00:13:11we're talking fonts, but what if I want variations
00:13:14of the landing page as a whole, like go crazy with it.
00:13:18I'm not talking about a different font,
00:13:19I'm talking about a completely different design
00:13:21and I wanna be able to see them stacked up.
00:13:23Again, just like I can do with stitch.
00:13:25I wanna be able to do this.
00:13:26Well, we can do that inside of Claude design
00:13:28and it's really easy.
00:13:29We're just going to prompt it to do exactly that.
00:13:32So I prompt the design and said,
00:13:33can you now create two more variants of this landing page
00:13:36that I can click between that are wildly different styles,
00:13:39suggest a different variant styles to me first.
00:13:42So it came back with six different options for me.
00:13:44We can do terminal Bloomberg, terminal style,
00:13:48hypermaximal editorial, brutalist, synthwave, soft pastel,
00:13:53or print newspaper.
00:13:56Let's go, yeah, kind of like one and two.
00:13:59So I'll say, let's do one and two
00:14:03and obviously keep the current layout up as well.
00:14:08So Claude design finished up with a variant.
00:14:10So here's the editorial one, the one we started with.
00:14:13We now have a terminal option.
00:14:18As well as a editorial maximal option,
00:14:21which kind of interesting, something different.
00:14:24Now, if you don't tell it to,
00:14:25it's only going to do the tweaks for the original.
00:14:28So when you do these variants,
00:14:30I think the general workflow should be,
00:14:33is you first start with the variants.
00:14:35So on a macro level, you're thinking, okay,
00:14:37I kind of wanna go in this direction.
00:14:39And then once you choose one of these macro ones,
00:14:42say we decided to stick with what we like,
00:14:44then you would go into the very aggressive tweak stage.
00:14:47So you can kind of see everything
00:14:49and drill down on what you want.
00:14:51Because with the way the usage is set up now,
00:14:54if you go macro and you say,
00:14:56I don't want just three options.
00:14:57I want four, five variants and I want tweaks on all of them.
00:15:00You're just gonna burn through your usage.
00:15:02Because adding these two variants, maximal and terminal,
00:15:04that was an extra 5%.
00:15:05So that brings up to about,
00:15:07I think we're at 17% now for landing page,
00:15:11two variations of landing page plus tweaks.
00:15:13And I know I keep harping on the usage,
00:15:14but for a lot of people, this is a big deal
00:15:16and it should be.
00:15:17I think down the line,
00:15:18this will probably change the whole usage thing,
00:15:19but just have it in mind.
00:15:20And so with these two things by you in tandem,
00:15:23this variance into tweaks,
00:15:26is it allows us to get to a 80% solution, a 90% solution.
00:15:31Now I can get even more hyper-focused on this.
00:15:35We can go up here like I showed you in the beginning.
00:15:37We can do edits.
00:15:39So I can like click on this top header.
00:15:42I can change the opacity.
00:15:43I can change the width, the color, all that stuff.
00:15:45So we can get really, really specific if we want to,
00:15:47but the real power comes from hitting that 90% solution,
00:15:50being like, okay, I like the editorial first one.
00:15:54I like the emphasis being on the mark,
00:15:55being a, that ring looks terrible, being a mark.
00:15:59I like this specific subhead, this headline, whatever.
00:16:04And then be like, all right, we're gonna go with that.
00:16:05We'd like the tweaks.
00:16:06Now let's knock out the rest of the landing page,
00:16:09'cause this is just the hero section.
00:16:11And then what you do is you then export this to Clod Code.
00:16:14You hand this off to Clod Code.
00:16:15When I click this, you have a few options.
00:16:17You can download the zip or you just copy this command
00:16:20and you bring it inside of Clod Code.
00:16:22And I think this sort of workflow is infinitely faster
00:16:25than being here, which is what Clod Code gave us
00:16:28with the same exact prompt.
00:16:29I mean like, okay, all right, Clod Code,
00:16:32let's mess with the color now.
00:16:35Let's do a few variations.
00:16:36Let's mess with the headline now and do a few variations.
00:16:39That can take hours versus this took minutes.
00:16:44And at least for me, like I need to see things
00:16:47and I need to see a bunch of options
00:16:48before I actually see what I like.
00:16:50And better yet, chances are once I see something,
00:16:53I might change it.
00:16:54'Cause to be honest, if they're seeing this,
00:16:54I kind of like super vertical one.
00:16:56Maybe we do some sort of icons here or whatever.
00:16:58Like I just want to iterate.
00:17:00I just want to see different stuff.
00:17:02So those are the two biggest best practices I can give you
00:17:05when it comes to the web app portion of this.
00:17:08Macro, right, ask for variations.
00:17:11And then micro, ask for more tweets.
00:17:13The one thing we didn't do here,
00:17:15and we'll show that in things like the slide deck
00:17:18and things like that,
00:17:19is asking it to essentially run through its own plan mode.
00:17:22So we gave it the prompt and right away,
00:17:24it spit this out at us.
00:17:25What we could have done instead and say,
00:17:26hey, I kind of want to do a plan mode with you.
00:17:28I want you to ask me a bunch of questions.
00:17:30And it will instead run you through
00:17:32a significant amount of questions,
00:17:33like five, eight, 10 questions about like,
00:17:35okay, what do you want here?
00:17:36What do you want there?
00:17:37What do you want there?
00:17:38That way you don't have to do as many iterations
00:17:40and ultimately it saves you usage.
00:17:42And I went through this same sort of flow
00:17:44when I was creating the front end
00:17:46for my agentic OS dashboard.
00:17:47You can see up here,
00:17:48this is what I originally started with.
00:17:51And then I was able to kind of go through
00:17:52all these different options.
00:17:53I eventually landed on this one, the cockpit one,
00:17:56although I thought about doing this one with the cool sprite.
00:17:58And then I just brought this version back in the Claude code
00:18:01and then made minor adjustments on the margins
00:18:03and actually like hooked it up.
00:18:04So it was a proper web app.
00:18:06Now let's do Claude design and slide deck.
00:18:08So we'll run through this a little faster
00:18:09because a lot of the fundamentals that we went over
00:18:13when it comes to web apps also apply to slide decks as well.
00:18:16So I won't belabor these points.
00:18:17And this time we will show off the design system at work.
00:18:21And remember that system is based upon the visuals
00:18:24from our agentic operating system.
00:18:26So we're gonna go ahead and hit create.
00:18:27And what do we see?
00:18:28The same setup as before.
00:18:30And something asking you to provide context,
00:18:32whether that's screenshots, code bases or Figma files.
00:18:35Now, the only context we are going to give it
00:18:37is the design system that's already there.
00:18:39As well as a prompt saying,
00:18:41we want a slide deck that talks about the differences
00:18:45between Claude design and Google stitch.
00:18:48And I had Opus 4.7 in another window with Claude code,
00:18:53come up with the prompt.
00:18:54So I had to do a web search.
00:18:55Okay, here's sort of the differences between the two.
00:18:57Now at the end, I wrote before you build anything,
00:19:01ask me whatever questions you have.
00:19:02So we're on the same page.
00:19:05So in a sense, we're almost like forcing it to do
00:19:07kind of like a plan mode.
00:19:08And so you see this populating here.
00:19:10Again, you can have this like forced plan mode
00:19:12totally occur when you do web apps as well.
00:19:14Just make sure you put it in the initial prompt.
00:19:16So who's this deck for?
00:19:18Let's say it's for a public talk.
00:19:20We'll say, we'll keep it short and sweet.
00:19:24Put it at six, we'll do five minutes.
00:19:28We'll do five slides.
00:19:30We'll do slightly opinionated, title style, center piece.
00:19:34We'll say only two by two positioning map.
00:19:37Call up price, yes.
00:19:39And then we'll just go through the rest of these.
00:19:43No notes.
00:19:44And so all in all, it asks us one, two, three, four, five,
00:19:47six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14 questions.
00:19:52Plus, you know, a little catch all down here,
00:19:56which I really like.
00:19:58Again, Cloud Code's plan mode sometimes will do,
00:20:00I feel like at most, you know, a few,
00:20:03like two iterations of four questions each.
00:20:05So this is great.
00:20:06And here's a look at the slide deck.
00:20:07I put it in full screen and for reference,
00:20:10this took 5% of our usage.
00:20:12So about 1% per slide.
00:20:15So we got the title page, little footnote about the deck
00:20:19being generated by Cloud Design.
00:20:22We got the numbers, you know, where they land.
00:20:26Well, got sort of a graph showing where they land
00:20:30in terms of cost.
00:20:31Obviously, Cloud Design being way more expensive.
00:20:34Field report.
00:20:37And then gives us sort of a,
00:20:38hey, here's a little chart showing
00:20:40what you should use for what use case.
00:20:43So I think the slide deck looks pretty sick,
00:20:45to be honest with you.
00:20:46But more importantly than that,
00:20:48it stuck with the design system.
00:20:49This agentic OS that the whole design system was built on
00:20:53is definitely reflected in the deck.
00:20:55These two things look like they came from the same place.
00:20:59And just like with the web app,
00:21:00we can go through the same workflow.
00:21:03This was the original it gave us.
00:21:05Now we can ask for macro variants and say,
00:21:07okay, did we actually want to stick with, you know,
00:21:09our design system?
00:21:11Or do we want to go an entirely different direction?
00:21:13Okay, we see, you know, two, three, four different variants.
00:21:16All right, let's hone it on one.
00:21:17And now let's bring in the tweaks
00:21:19and really fine tune this thing.
00:21:20And that's sort of how I think
00:21:22you should approach the slide deck.
00:21:23Same way we approach web apps.
00:21:24Now for reference, here is the slide deck
00:21:27that Cloud Code produced us.
00:21:29I gave it the exact same prompt
00:21:31and I created this from the same directory,
00:21:34the agentic OS system live.
00:21:36So it had full access to the same design system,
00:21:38so to speak.
00:21:39On top of that, I also asked it to ask me question.
00:21:42It only asked me seven.
00:21:43And the questions, to be honest, weren't as good.
00:21:46They're a bit more surface level
00:21:47in terms of like, well, slide count.
00:21:49And what do you want the aspect ratio to be
00:21:51versus what we saw in the design?
00:21:52And I think that's reflected in overall,
00:21:55a much more bland output.
00:21:57And I'm kind of surprised it wasn't closer
00:22:00in terms of visual style compared to what design gave us.
00:22:02I mean, it's not bad.
00:22:05I mean, the colors are close, the text is close,
00:22:07but I mean, let's be serious.
00:22:10This kind of blows it out of the water
00:22:12if we're gonna be honest.
00:22:13Lastly, let's talk about mobile app design.
00:22:15And you have two options here.
00:22:17One, you're going straight mobile.
00:22:19You're not doing any web app stuff.
00:22:21And it's pretty simple.
00:22:22You're just gonna do what we did with the web app portion
00:22:25at the beginning of this video.
00:22:26And you're just gonna say at the beginning,
00:22:28this is for a mobile app.
00:22:29Make sure the visuals reflect that.
00:22:32But if you're taking a web app
00:22:33and you then wanna translate that into a mobile platform,
00:22:35it's pretty simple.
00:22:36While we could stay here in this prompt window we're at,
00:22:40in fact, all right, now show it to me in mobile.
00:22:42It probably makes more sense to have a separate project
00:22:45with the exact same stuff going on.
00:22:46But now we have a clear delineation
00:22:48between the web app we're working on versus the mobile.
00:22:51And so to do that, you're just gonna come to the top right
00:22:53where it says share.
00:22:54And then you're gonna hit duplicate project.
00:22:57Once you do that, it'll take you to a page like this.
00:23:00But if you go back to the homepage,
00:23:02we can now see that there is a CD demo remix.
00:23:05And that remix is the duplicated project.
00:23:08And so now I'm just going to prompt it and say,
00:23:10can you show me the same design in a mobile format?
00:23:13And here's the mobile versions it gave us.
00:23:15It went ahead and created variants of all three.
00:23:18I didn't specify that, but it did it.
00:23:19So it gave us essentially nine mock-ups
00:23:21and total cost was 5% of usage.
00:23:25So same flow as usual.
00:23:27It gave us the macro right here.
00:23:29So we would pick which one we liked,
00:23:30obviously be whichever one you decided for your web app.
00:23:32And then from there, we would say,
00:23:34hey, I like the editorial one.
00:23:36Now bring up a bunch of tweaks so I can really nail this.
00:23:38But truth be told,
00:23:39if you got everything set up on the web app version,
00:23:42chances are you already did the tweaks.
00:23:44So there shouldn't be too much
00:23:47you need to change at this point.
00:23:48But there's always a little,
00:23:51you always run into issues when you go from standard web app
00:23:53to a mobile design.
00:23:55But like you see here, really easy to do,
00:23:57just a single prompt.
00:23:58So that's where I'm gonna leave you guys for today.
00:23:59I hope I was able to eliminate the differences
00:24:02between Claude Design and Claude Code,
00:24:04especially highlighting the features
00:24:06that really make us our money inside of Claude Design,
00:24:09that being tweaks and that being the variants.
00:24:11And really what it buys us is iteration speed.
00:24:15I can go through a ton of different versions
00:24:17of whatever I'm trying to create
00:24:19so I can finally land on something I like.
00:24:21And once I do that,
00:24:22then I pull it into the Claude Code ecosystem.
00:24:25And I hope I was able to make the usage costs
00:24:27a little more clear by calling out the percentages we lost
00:24:31after every single iteration and creation.
00:24:33So as always, let me know what you thought.
00:24:35Definitely be on the lookout for more Claude Design material
00:24:38because I think this is a super cool tool.
00:24:40Make sure to check out Chase AI+
00:24:42if you wanna get your hands on the Claude Code Masterclass,
00:24:45and I'll see you around.

Key Takeaway

Claude Design accelerates front-end development by enabling rapid visual iteration through macro-level layout variations and micro-level tweaks, which are then easily exported to Claude Code for implementation.

Highlights

Claude Design functions as a visual mockup tool for web apps, mobile apps, and slide decks, accessible exclusively at claud.ai/design.

A design system ingest process consumes 20-25% of weekly usage limits and takes 5-15 minutes to complete.

Iterating with 'tweaks' typically consumes about 7% of weekly usage, whereas creating a high-fidelity landing page with minimal prompts consumes 4%.

Opus 4.7 provides 3x higher screenshot resolution and fidelity compared to Opus 4.6, making it the preferred model for design tasks.

The most efficient design workflow involves generating macro-level variations first, then drilling down into micro-level 'tweaks' to achieve a 90% solution.

Exporting designs to Claude Code enables a seamless transition from visual prototyping to functional code development.

Timeline

Claude Design Overview and Limitations

  • Claude Design creates visual mockups for web apps, mobile apps, and slide decks.
  • Usage is restricted to the web app at claud.ai/design and is unavailable in Claude Code or the desktop application.
  • Weekly usage limits apply equally across all account tiers, making the tool a significant resource consumer.

Claude Design provides a visual interface for front-end prototyping, analogous to tools like Google Stitch. Despite its power, it functions as a resource-intensive tool with strict weekly usage caps. It is not an integrated feature within the desktop environment, requiring access through the dedicated web portal.

Design Systems and Initial Setup

  • Design systems act as reusable visual templates for fonts, logos, and overall aesthetic mood.
  • Ingesting a design system takes 5-15 minutes and uses 20-25% of total weekly usage.
  • Design systems are not black boxes, as they provide accessible HTML and component files for export to local machines.

Creating a design system allows for consistency across projects by defining brand assets once. Because this process is highly token-intensive, it is recommended to set up only one system rather than creating multiple versions. Users maintain full transparency through access to the underlying generated code.

Iterative Workflows for Web Apps

  • Starting with minimal context causes regression to the mean; providing codebase screenshots or repository links improves output quality.
  • Opus 4.7 offers superior fidelity for image-based inputs compared to earlier versions.
  • The power of Claude Design lies in rapid iteration via 'tweaks' and macro-level design variations.

Effective landing page generation requires balancing prompt specificity with design system utilization. While a first-pass generation provides a baseline, iterative tweaking of headlines, layout, and color palettes allows for rapid visual evolution. This iteration speed is the primary advantage over manual coding cycles.

Slide Deck Generation

  • Slide deck generation costs approximately 1% of usage per slide.
  • Forcing a 'plan mode' by instructing the model to ask questions prior to generation yields more structured and higher-quality results.
  • Claude Design produced significantly more visually cohesive slide decks than Claude Code using the same prompts.

Creating presentations follows the same macro-to-micro workflow as web development. Explicitly asking the model to query the user for details before drafting ensures the output aligns with intended project goals, resulting in a more polished presentation than direct generation.

Mobile Adaptation

  • Adapting web designs for mobile is best handled by duplicating existing projects.
  • Duplicate projects allow for distinct project versions, enabling mobile-specific refinement without altering the web base.
  • The iteration workflow remains identical to web app design once the project is duplicated.

Transforming web app prototypes into mobile layouts is facilitated by the 'duplicate project' feature. This maintains separation between design formats while preserving the established design system, enabling efficient generation of mobile-specific variants with minimal additional prompts.

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