My early thoughts on Claude Design from my vantage point for marketers and designers: it's a promising product and the start of what I think is the next disruptive surface for design (ai/ps → fig → cd; all three will co-exist). The capability itself is nothing new. It's what the existing Anthropic models already do well (esp Opus), now productized with a proper interface. This is what Figma Make should have been, but they dropped the ball. Anthropic is marketing this as a generalist tool, but I genuinely believe the strongest early adopters will/should be designers themselves. As with v1 of any Claude product, it's a little slow and buggy. CD comes with its own weekly limits, which I burned through in a couple of hours. It's also not a design canvas like Figma. Everything CD generates is code (interactive HTMLs), though you can export it into a bunch of different formats. The edit layer inside CD is solid too, with inline comments, a 'tweak' module, and of course the chat. The initial setup is straightforward. You dump all your brand assets to create a structured design system, which lets CD apply consistent styling across projects. The breadth of reusable components it spits out at onboarding made me go wow. You can create multiple design systems too, which opens up an obvious agency use case. CD is versatile, but three features anchor it - slide decks, wireframes, and hi-fi mockups. Decks are the lowest-hanging fruit and the feature I'll keep going back to the most. You can export your design (code + chat history) to Claude Code for further development, but you can't seamlessly go back and forth between the two yet, which is where things break. I want to iterate at a later stage. At the moment, it's cumbersome to carry context back into CD mid-development. The perfect evolution of this for someone like me would be Code + Design on the Claude desktop app. You also rarely prototype just one page. Most projects span tens of screens, and the current version falls short in that regard. While prototyping was possible in any Claude product previously, the real leverage now comes from the clarifying questions CD asks before designing anything. The system prompt is the whole product. It's a callback to the AskUserQuestion tool in Claude Code. In that sense, it’s quickly become an invaluable ‘design thinking partner’ for me. There was a product whitespace in this area for generalists. It's easy to write Claude Design off as a v1 toy. If Anthropic lands Code and Design on a single surface (which I'd bet on within a month), Figma becomes optional for much of the product design work that currently starts there.