What Claude Design is — Claude

1In one sentence

Claude Design is a place where you describe something visual (a web page, a poster, a slide, an app screen) and Claude draws it on a canvas, then you adjust it together.

2New words

Design — here, a visual layout: where the picture goes, what the headline says, which buttons there are, which colors. Not code, not a document.
Canvas — the big area on the right where the design appears. You can zoom, select parts, and comment on them.
Artboard — one frame on the canvas, for example "Landing page — desktop". A design can have several (desktop, phone, poster).
Mockup — a picture of what something would look like, before it is built for real.

3Why you would want it

Most people cannot draw what they mean, and briefing a designer takes days. With Claude Design you type two sentences and see a real-looking page in a minute, then say "warmer", "bigger photo", "move the hours up" until it is right. For a small business that is a landing page, a menu, a poster and a social post, all on the same afternoon.

4Try it now

(paid plans)

Click Design in the left sidebar. Under "Make something new", click Design.
In the message box on the left, type: A simple landing page for a small neighborhood bakery called Sam's Bakery: warm colors, one big photo area at the top, a short welcome line, three buttons (Order, Menu, Visit us), and a section with opening hours. Desktop width.
Wait about a minute. Then type a change: Make the headline shorter and the buttons rounder.

5What you will see

The Design home with four ways to start: Slides, Design, Design in codebase, Design System:

A new design opens with a message box on the left and an empty canvas on the right:

An empty design with the message box and canvas

About a minute later the page is on the canvas, and Claude explains what it did and what it assumed (sample hours, placeholder address) so you know what to replace:

The finished landing page on the canvas, with Claude's explanation

The artboard itself, closer:

6Watch out

It is a research preview. Buttons move and features change; if this chapter's pictures look different from your screen, the idea is the same.
Placeholders are placeholders. Claude invents sample hours and addresses so the layout works; replace them before you use the design.

7Go further

Ask for a second artboard: Now make a phone version of the same page. Chapter 3.2 makes every design use your own colors and fonts automatically.