What is Claude’s graphic design tool and how does it work?

Let’s explain to you what is Claude Designa new function within the chat artificial intelligence of Claude. It is a graphic design tool with which you will be able to create all kinds of interactive elements and then shape them until they are to your liking.

We are going to start by describing what exactly this tool is, so that you know all the possibilities it offers you. And then we will explain to you in a quick and simple way how it works.

What is Claude Design

Claude Design is a visual creation tool through conversations created by Anthropic for Claude. It’s something similar to Canvabut with artificial intelligence. What it does is allow you to do visual work with prompts instead of starting from scratch from a blank piece of paper.

We could say that it is something like a graphic designer using artificial intelligencewhich allows you to order creations without needing to know Figma, Photoshop or any other similar program. It’s something like the Claude Code for graphic design.

Claude Design allows you to make many types of design, such as from websites and applications to Power Points or animations. You will even be able to configure your own design guide, in addition to all kinds of interactive prototypes and presentations.

These are the things you can do with this tool, according to Anthropic:

Realistic prototypes: Designers can turn static mockups into easy-to-share interactive prototypes for feedback and user testing, without needing to review code or submit pull requests.

• Product diagrams and mockups– Product managers can outline feature flows and pass them to Claude Code for implementation, or share them with designers for refinement.
• Design Explorations– Designers can quickly create a wide variety of proposals to explore.
• Presentations and sales materials: Founders and account executives can go from a rough sketch to a full, on-brand presentation in minutes, then export it as PPTX or send it to Canva.
• Marketing materials: Marketers can create landing pages, social media assets, and campaign visuals, then involve designers to polish them.
• Cutting-edge design: Anyone can create code-based prototypes with voice, video, shaders, 3D, and built-in AI.

Claude Design is currently in version Research Preview. This means that it is a trial version that has not yet reached beta nor is it available to all users.

One of the particularities of Claude as an AI is that it focuses on offering useful functions for the user, but leaves aside others more focused on entertainment such as image creation. This has been a problem for professionals who use AI to create an image, and it is the gap that this tool tries to fill.

Claude Design is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, which is currently the latest version of the Claude AI model. At the moment it is only available for Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscriberswho are the only ones who can test this functionality.

How Claude Design works

Claude Design works through textual prompts, combining conversational and interactive logic. This means that combines a chat interface with an interactive canvas located on both sides of the screen, always in view of the user.

With this, you will first write what you want to achieve, describing everything in a prompt, and Claude will generate a first version. And then, you’re going to have controls to refine the resulteither through textual instructions or with interactive buttons. To start you will have to create a prototypewhich will be the way to create a new design.

This will take you to the main Design window, where on the left you can give commands and on the right you can interact. You will be able to start in several ways, such as loading external files which can be screenshots, Figma files or code, or even just describe what you want with a prompt to which you can attach designs.

You will even be able to start from a drawing that you do freehand on the right side with the option of Start with a sketch. The idea is that just by having something in mind you can start creating it.

Once you have created the first draft of what you want, you can continue using the left column to give instructions for the things you want to change. you also have options like Tweaks and Comments.

The first allows you to create manual controls describing what you want to do with it. For example, bars to resize the parent element. And the second allows you to make concrete changes to specific components instead of the structural changes you make with prompts.

and then you have the edit button or Editwhich allows you to choose an element of your design and make changes directly to it. In addition, you can also draw other elements by hand with the option Draw.

In short, you have all the options to to be able to shape your design using a combination of manual and artificial intelligence controls, and even being able to create manual controls with AI.

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