Anthropic declared on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a novel experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The business says Claude Design is intended to help humans like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. 

With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude will create an initial version. From there, users can refine the visuals with direct edits or requests. 

For example, you could ask Claude to “prototype a serene mobile meditation app. It should have calming typography, subtle nature-inspired colors, and a clean layout.” This also touches on aspects of startup.

You could then tweak the colors, the size of the typography, or ask Claude to add a dark mode toggle. 

While Claude Design may initially seem like it’s looking to compete with popular design app Canva, which has just expanded its own AI capabilities, Anthropic told TechCrunch that it’s intended to complement it rather than replace it. The corporation commented its novel product is built for citizens who aren’t starting from a design tool and need to get from an idea to something visual quickly. 

Once teams create presentation decks or prototypes, they can export them as PDFs, URLs, PPTX files, or send them to Canva. Once in Canva, they are fully editable and collaborative, Anthropic says. 

Claude Design can also apply a team’s design system to every project it creates so that the results are consistent with the company’s overall visual style. Anthropic says Claude Design is able to do this by reading a company’s codebase and design files. Additionally, teams can refine these components and maintain more than one design system. 

The recent product is powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. 

The launch highlights Anthropic’s ongoing push into the enterprise and prosumer categories, as competition intensifies around AI workplace tools. In January, Anthropic rolled out Claude Cowork, an agentic assistant built for complex tasks. A few weeks later, the corporation brought agentic plug-ins to Cowork that are designed to automate specialized tasks within a company’s various departments.

Today’s announcement comes a few days after Bloomberg reported that VCs have been offering the organization a preemptive funding round that would value it at $800 billion or more, which would almost match or even surpass its rival OpenAI. But so far, Anthropic isn’t interested in the latest offers, according to the report. 

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