Anthropic Launches Claude Design AI Tool

Anthropic launched Claude Design on Friday, a new AI tool under its Anthropic Labs initiative that enables users to generate designs, prototypes, presentation slides, and one-pagers through conversational prompts. The research preview, powered by the company's recently introduced Claude Opus 4.7 vision model, is rolling out gradually to subscribers on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with Enterprise access requiring administrator activation in organization settings.

Claude Design aims to streamline visual creation for both professional designers and those without design expertise, such as founders, product managers, and marketers. Users begin by describing their needs in text prompts, uploading images or documents like DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX files, or referencing codebases and live websites via a built-in web capture tool. The AI then produces an initial version, which can be refined through ongoing dialogue, inline comments, direct edits, or custom sliders that adjust elements like spacing, colors, and layouts.

A key feature is the tool's ability to analyze a team's codebase and existing design files during onboarding to automatically build and apply a consistent design...