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It much easier to \"tell\" coding agent what I need instead of writing wall of prose to define visual stuff. I reminds me old WYSIWYG and unlike Figma it has full HTML/CSS capabilities available. How I work with it: - I ask agent to ext", "context": "decades-experienced SWE", "use_case": "UI design feedback loop", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 795862608, "item_id": 49741413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741413", "by": "sigseg1v", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent", "excerpt": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent, and it's better at making an initial starting UI than just asking Claude Code. Think of it like Anthropic's version of Figma. It honestly works pretty good and I use it often and feel that it saved me a lot of time. 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(June 2026)"}]}, {"text": " and handing them off to Claude Code to build, often in place of Figma.", "cites": [{"id": 770061712, "item_id": 48128857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128857", "by": "lucasgw", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Claude Design + Claude Code, and results have been excellent.", "excerpt": "I have been using Claude Design + Claude Code, and results have been excellent. I have explicit clean-up instructions in Claude Code, and the handoff skill in Claude Design is pretty solid. I've been on product launches many times, so can drive the design side appropriately and keep things focused. Has been a wonderful addition to my workflow. As usual with any agent-driven tool - GIGO. 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I'm not amazed by the colours, because they look LLMy, but it's much better than anything I could do by hand.", "context": "built a travel planner app", "use_case": "travel planner app design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app"}, {"id": 792420672, "item_id": 49526292, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526292", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Design heavily", "excerpt": "I use Claude Design heavily, I wish these charts show \"10% better at picking a color\" or laying out an app. Maybe it's hard to build a good visual design test. Claude's good at layouts but not the colors or smaller design details.", "context": "", "use_case": "app layout and design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"}, {"id": 764913168, "item_id": 47807073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807073", "by": "ossa-ma", "date": "2026-04-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design", "excerpt": "The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design [EDIT], for a few reasons: - The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive. An AI model is incapable of that, it's uninspired, it will absolutely converge to the norm and homogeneity (you see it everywhere now, just scroll on ShowHN and take a look at the UIs) and produce the safest design that appeals to its understanding of the i", "context": "", "use_case": "AI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Design"}, {"id": 788761907, "item_id": 49297619, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297619", "by": "mattkevan", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it loves to fill the UI with little labels that describe how everything works", "excerpt": "It's really annoying. I've had to write a CLAUDE.md file that specifically bans particular phrases and tries to keep narrative out of comments. Also the I have ADHD skill [1] helps to force Opus to get to the point. It's also the case when using Claude Design - it loves to fill the UI with little labels that describe how everything works. I think it's been trained on both UI microcopy and functional annotations and c", "context": "", "use_case": "UI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"}, {"id": 787136352, "item_id": 49196022, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196022", "by": "mattstir", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Claude Design absolutely loves creating phrases like", "excerpt": "Claude Design absolutely loves creating phrases like \"Share the thread, not the PR\". The amount of \"do the xyz, not the abc\" subheadings on docs in my workplace has exploded in the last 6 months, and it gets a bit tiring to see. I think it's a hard-coded alternative to em dashes or something.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating docs copy", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}]}, {"text": " followed by heavy token and usage-limit consumption.", "cites": [{"id": 795862608, "item_id": 49741413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741413", "by": "sigseg1v", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent", "excerpt": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent, and it's better at making an initial starting UI than just asking Claude Code. Think of it like Anthropic's version of Figma. It honestly works pretty good and I use it often and feel that it saved me a lot of time. It's pretty token heavy though.", "context": "", "use_case": "UI page design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"}, {"id": 765115456, "item_id": 47819716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819716", "by": "mickdarling", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything", "excerpt": "I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I got something that was satisfactory. Then I looked at the usage and it said I had used 95% of my Claude design usage for the week! This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything, if that's what they're providing as examples.", "context": "", "use_case": "design system and branding work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Fast prototyping", "summary": "Gives a faster visual feedback loop and can produce a full frontend or several proposals from one prompt.", "quotes": [{"id": 786640176, "item_id": 49165011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165011", "by": "imhoguy", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As decades-exp SWE I love using Claude Design for any kind of app and web development", "excerpt": "As decades-exp SWE I love using Claude Design for any kind of app and web development, because it gives much faster visual feedback loop than changing views within deep framework stack. It much easier to \"tell\" coding agent what I need instead of writing wall of prose to define visual stuff. I reminds me old WYSIWYG and unlike Figma it has full HTML/CSS capabilities available. How I work with it: - I ask agent to ext", "context": "decades-experienced SWE", "use_case": "UI design feedback loop", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 774847633, "item_id": 48427977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427977", "by": "abelkhadir", "date": "2026-06-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I then use Claude design to design the full frontend in one shot.", "excerpt": "I use linux + claude code as the main driver. Before i start a project, i first write scripts manually to give claude code an idea of what im trying to do I then use Claude design to design the full frontend in one shot. then use it manually to see bugs/stuff i dont like and re-prompt it to modify. i also give it description of the scripts i wrote so it has a better idea of what i want Then i use claude code for the ", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 780049280, "item_id": 48753080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753080", "by": "mlitwiniuk", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Thanks, I'm seriously blushing ;) No, the design system isn't public. But only because it's a month old and I never considered opening it. I'll give it some thought. I don't have a design background, but I ran a software house/dev shop for almost 15 years; maybe that taught me a little. And my very first client, after seeing our very first projects, said one thing: \"I don't care how ugly this is, but for god sake, pl", "context": "ran a dev shop for 15 years", "use_case": "website design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fable 5 Is Back"}]}, {"label": "Claude Code pairing", "summary": "Commenters design in it and hand off to Claude Code to build, with a solid handoff skill.", "quotes": [{"id": 770061712, "item_id": 48128857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128857", "by": "lucasgw", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Claude Design + Claude Code, and results have been excellent.", "excerpt": "I have been using Claude Design + Claude Code, and results have been excellent. I have explicit clean-up instructions in Claude Code, and the handoff skill in Claude Design is pretty solid. I've been on product launches many times, so can drive the design side appropriately and keep things focused. Has been a wonderful addition to my workflow. As usual with any agent-driven tool - GIGO. If the human driving has no pr", "context": "has been on product launches many times", "use_case": "product design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"}, {"id": 788424993, "item_id": 49276562, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276562", "by": "jmathai", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Code + Claude Design is way more capable than what I think Lovable is.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code the way others use Lovable. I'm comfortable with the terminal and Claude Code but I think Anthropic (et al.) is closing the gap rapidly. And Claude Code + Claude Design is way more capable than what I think Lovable is. I assume Lovable had to build around constraints to reach non-technical people at the time. But the models and tooling have improved such that those constraints are melting away. I'm ", "context": "", "use_case": "design", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at $13.3B valuation up from $6.6B in 2025"}, {"id": 778348801, "item_id": 48646800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646800", "by": "theanswa", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Then we quickly move to claude.ai/design for iteration and Claude Code to build.", "excerpt": "We're two product designers at Fern and we recently rebuilt the buildwithfern.com site in five weeks with no developer help. The three things worth mentioning here from the blog: - Figma has become a very expensive virtual whiteboard. It\u2019s still in our loop, but only as a starting point for ideation and moodboarding. Then we quickly move to claude.ai/design for iteration and Claude Code to build. 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And then just prototype on design, collab, discuss and arrive at what we want to ship. And then engineering take over and rebuild via hand / claude code. But the tools aren", "context": "team using Phoenix/LiveView with shared design system", "use_case": "prototyping UI designs", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 786640176, "item_id": 49165011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165011", "by": "imhoguy", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As decades-exp SWE I love using Claude Design for any kind of app and web development", "excerpt": "As decades-exp SWE I love using Claude Design for any kind of app and web development, because it gives much faster visual feedback loop than changing views within deep framework stack. It much easier to \"tell\" coding agent what I need instead of writing wall of prose to define visual stuff. I reminds me old WYSIWYG and unlike Figma it has full HTML/CSS capabilities available. How I work with it: - I ask agent to ext", "context": "decades-experienced SWE", "use_case": "UI design feedback loop", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 774925600, "item_id": 48432850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432850", "by": "epolanski", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use claude design too.", "excerpt": "I use claude design too. It has been suggested to me by some very respected and experienced designers which now prototype almost exclusively in claude and then when happy refine in figma. By the way, you can always tune your prompts to not be generic, if you ask for generic UIs without detailed styling prompts you will get generic designs.", "context": "", "use_case": "UI prototyping", "switched_from": "", "story": "I design with Claude more than Figma now"}]}, {"label": "Design consistency", "summary": "Good at keeping many UI pages consistent and encourages building a design system first.", "quotes": [{"id": 795862608, "item_id": 49741413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741413", "by": "sigseg1v", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent", "excerpt": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent, and it's better at making an initial starting UI than just asking Claude Code. Think of it like Anthropic's version of Figma. It honestly works pretty good and I use it often and feel that it saved me a lot of time. It's pretty token heavy though.", "context": "", "use_case": "UI page design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"}, {"id": 795603168, "item_id": 49725198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725198", "by": "yosito", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Take a look at how Claude Design works: if you want to create a design there, one of the first things it encourages you to do is to build a design system", "excerpt": "You're partially correct, in the sense that agentic software development means that exact tech stack choices no longer restrict what's possible or easy to quickly achieve. But having well designed technologies and design systems is actually more important than ever, because AI agents can use those systems to build UIs on the fly more efficiently, with less tokens, and achieving more consistency and reliability. If yo", "context": "", "use_case": "AI UI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped"}, {"id": 788659360, "item_id": 49291210, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291210", "by": "ra0x3", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "If you ask Claude Design to build you one - you'll see exactly what I'm referring to.", "excerpt": "For B2B SaaS apps, you'll notice that the panels and navs (top navigation, bottom navigation, left-navigation, etc) are much smaller (which is a slightly more 'modern' look) - e.g., OpenAI/Claude dashboards. In general components are more uniform/standard, fonts are smaller. Again, this is just what I've noticed for specifically B2B SaaS apps. If you ask Claude Design to build you one - you'll see exactly what I'm re", "context": "", "use_case": "generating B2B SaaS UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?"}]}, {"label": "Good layouts", "summary": "Strong at layouts and better than what non-designers could do by hand.", "quotes": [{"id": 792420672, "item_id": 49526292, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526292", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Design heavily", "excerpt": "I use Claude Design heavily, I wish these charts show \"10% better at picking a color\" or laying out an app. Maybe it's hard to build a good visual design test. Claude's good at layouts but not the colors or smaller design details.", "context": "", "use_case": "app layout and design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"}, {"id": 804727024, "item_id": 50295439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295439", "by": "stavros", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's much better than anything I could do by hand.", "excerpt": "Yes, I used Claude Design. I'm not amazed by the colours, because they look LLMy, but it's much better than anything I could do by hand.", "context": "built a travel planner app", "use_case": "travel planner app design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Generic output", "summary": "Designs tend to converge on a homogeneous, recognisably AI-generated look unless prompts are detailed.", "quotes": [{"id": 764913168, "item_id": 47807073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807073", "by": "ossa-ma", "date": "2026-04-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design", "excerpt": "The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design [EDIT], for a few reasons: - The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive. 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I think it's a hard-coded alternative to em dashes or something.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating docs copy", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}]}, {"label": "Colours and details", "summary": "Weaker at colours and small design details than at layout.", "quotes": [{"id": 792420672, "item_id": 49526292, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526292", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Design heavily", "excerpt": "I use Claude Design heavily, I wish these charts show \"10% better at picking a color\" or laying out an app. Maybe it's hard to build a good visual design test. Claude's good at layouts but not the colors or smaller design details.", "context": "", "use_case": "app layout and design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"}, {"id": 804727024, "item_id": 50295439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295439", "by": "stavros", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's much better than anything I could do by hand.", "excerpt": "Yes, I used Claude Design. I'm not amazed by the colours, because they look LLMy, but it's much better than anything I could do by hand.", "context": "built a travel planner app", "use_case": "travel planner app design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app"}]}, {"label": "Usage limits", "summary": "Token heavy; one user used 95% of a weekly allowance in a single session.", "quotes": [{"id": 765115456, "item_id": 47819716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819716", "by": "mickdarling", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything", "excerpt": "I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I got something that was satisfactory. Then I looked at the usage and it said I had used 95% of my Claude design usage for the week! This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything, if that's what they're providing as examples.", "context": "", "use_case": "design system and branding work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design"}, {"id": 795862608, "item_id": 49741413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741413", "by": "sigseg1v", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent", "excerpt": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent, and it's better at making an initial starting UI than just asking Claude Code. Think of it like Anthropic's version of Figma. It honestly works pretty good and I use it often and feel that it saved me a lot of time. It's pretty token heavy though.", "context": "", "use_case": "UI page design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"}]}, {"label": "Inconsistent results", "summary": "One user found most templates produced poor results, likening it to a slot machine.", "quotes": [{"id": 774917808, "item_id": 48432363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432363", "by": "firemelt", "date": "2026-06-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "from 6 sessions and 5 projects only one template that I choose anything else is really really bad", "excerpt": "amyone know how to use claude design more effectively I always alhave a feeling I use a slot machine from 6 sessions and 5 projects only one template that I choose anything else is really really bad", "context": "", "use_case": "generating design templates", "switched_from": "", "story": "I design with Claude more than Figma now"}]}, {"label": "Weak integration", "summary": "Separate from Claude Code: frontend gets written twice, CLAUDE.md and skills aren't supported, and it trends toward React.", "quotes": [{"id": 778424096, "item_id": 48651506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651506", "by": "ahmadyan", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think Claude Design is a wonderful product", "excerpt": "still doesn't feel integrated, like it could have been built by any other company, e.g. Microsoft could have built Microsoft Design and it would look better integrated. For example, it writes the whole front-end twice, once is claude design and then later it has to read it again and re-implement it in code. Also a lot of stuff (e.g. Claude.md, skill files, etc) are not supported, and they have their own set of ui-des", "context": "", "use_case": "UI design before implementation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Tag"}, {"id": 786651520, "item_id": 49165720, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165720", "by": "RileyJames", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the fidelity of the outcome (and the assumptions it\u2019s forced the make) are more valuable and faster to achieve than Figma.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been curious on how to close this loop between engineering and design/product. We don\u2019t use react, which Claude design seems to trend towards. We use Phoenix / liveview. We have a shared design system, which keeps the visual elements in line. And then just prototype on design, collab, discuss and arrive at what we want to ship. And then engineering take over and rebuild via hand / claude code. 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I'm not amazed by the colours, because they look LLMy, but it's much better than anything I could do by hand.", "context": "built a travel planner app", "use_case": "travel planner app design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app"}, {"id": 803401728, "item_id": 50212608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212608", "by": "GenerWork", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I find Claude Design to be really interesting.", "excerpt": "I take it they're using Claude Code & Claude Design for design now? I find Claude Design to be really interesting. It made a huge splash, and now...nothing. I believe it hasn't been updated in a few months. I read a comment here that said that it was like the person who spun it up had moved off the project or abandoned it. Keeping in line with the thread topic, perhaps Anthropic is just biding its time until making h", "context": "", "use_case": "design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"}, {"id": 795862608, "item_id": 49741413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741413", "by": "sigseg1v", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent", "excerpt": "Claude Design is good at making a bunch of UI pages in a single design look consistent, and it's better at making an initial starting UI than just asking Claude Code. Think of it like Anthropic's version of Figma. It honestly works pretty good and I use it often and feel that it saved me a lot of time. It's pretty token heavy though.", "context": "", "use_case": "UI page design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"}, {"id": 795603168, "item_id": 49725198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725198", "by": "yosito", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Take a look at how Claude Design works: if you want to create a design there, one of the first things it encourages you to do is to build a design system", "excerpt": "You're partially correct, in the sense that agentic software development means that exact tech stack choices no longer restrict what's possible or easy to quickly achieve. But having well designed technologies and design systems is actually more important than ever, because AI agents can use those systems to build UIs on the fly more efficiently, with less tokens, and achieving more consistency and reliability. If yo", "context": "", "use_case": "AI UI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped"}, {"id": 792420672, "item_id": 49526292, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526292", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Design heavily", "excerpt": "I use Claude Design heavily, I wish these charts show \"10% better at picking a color\" or laying out an app. Maybe it's hard to build a good visual design test. Claude's good at layouts but not the colors or smaller design details.", "context": "", "use_case": "app layout and design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"}, {"id": 788761907, "item_id": 49297619, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297619", "by": "mattkevan", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it loves to fill the UI with little labels that describe how everything works", "excerpt": "It's really annoying. I've had to write a CLAUDE.md file that specifically bans particular phrases and tries to keep narrative out of comments. Also the I have ADHD skill [1] helps to force Opus to get to the point. It's also the case when using Claude Design - it loves to fill the UI with little labels that describe how everything works. I think it's been trained on both UI microcopy and functional annotations and c", "context": "", "use_case": "UI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"}, {"id": 788659360, "item_id": 49291210, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291210", "by": "ra0x3", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "If you ask Claude Design to build you one - you'll see exactly what I'm referring to.", "excerpt": "For B2B SaaS apps, you'll notice that the panels and navs (top navigation, bottom navigation, left-navigation, etc) are much smaller (which is a slightly more 'modern' look) - e.g., OpenAI/Claude dashboards. In general components are more uniform/standard, fonts are smaller. Again, this is just what I've noticed for specifically B2B SaaS apps. If you ask Claude Design to build you one - you'll see exactly what I'm re", "context": "", "use_case": "generating B2B SaaS UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?"}, {"id": 788424993, "item_id": 49276562, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276562", "by": "jmathai", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Code + Claude Design is way more capable than what I think Lovable is.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code the way others use Lovable. I'm comfortable with the terminal and Claude Code but I think Anthropic (et al.) is closing the gap rapidly. And Claude Code + Claude Design is way more capable than what I think Lovable is. I assume Lovable had to build around constraints to reach non-technical people at the time. But the models and tooling have improved such that those constraints are melting away. I'm ", "context": "", "use_case": "design", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at $13.3B valuation up from $6.6B in 2025"}, {"id": 787136352, "item_id": 49196022, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196022", "by": "mattstir", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Claude Design absolutely loves creating phrases like", "excerpt": "Claude Design absolutely loves creating phrases like \"Share the thread, not the PR\". The amount of \"do the xyz, not the abc\" subheadings on docs in my workplace has exploded in the last 6 months, and it gets a bit tiring to see. I think it's a hard-coded alternative to em dashes or something.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating docs copy", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 786651520, "item_id": 49165720, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165720", "by": "RileyJames", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the fidelity of the outcome (and the assumptions it\u2019s forced the make) are more valuable and faster to achieve than Figma.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been curious on how to close this loop between engineering and design/product. We don\u2019t use react, which Claude design seems to trend towards. We use Phoenix / liveview. We have a shared design system, which keeps the visual elements in line. And then just prototype on design, collab, discuss and arrive at what we want to ship. And then engineering take over and rebuild via hand / claude code. But the tools aren", "context": "team using Phoenix/LiveView with shared design system", "use_case": "prototyping UI designs", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 786640176, "item_id": 49165011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165011", "by": "imhoguy", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As decades-exp SWE I love using Claude Design for any kind of app and web development", "excerpt": "As decades-exp SWE I love using Claude Design for any kind of app and web development, because it gives much faster visual feedback loop than changing views within deep framework stack. It much easier to \"tell\" coding agent what I need instead of writing wall of prose to define visual stuff. I reminds me old WYSIWYG and unlike Figma it has full HTML/CSS capabilities available. How I work with it: - I ask agent to ext", "context": "decades-experienced SWE", "use_case": "UI design feedback loop", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 783780627, "item_id": 48986289, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986289", "by": "viccis", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I push the design prompt through Claude Design, tweak the results, and get a design spec.", "excerpt": "From what I can tell, I have a similar workflow. I get Fable 5 / Sol on High to talk to me about requirements until it's ready to design. I then have it break the design into tickets. I use kata, an agent-oriented issue tracker. If it ever starts to get bloated, I'll just make my own as it doesn't need too many features. Anyway, I tell it to include sufficient context in each such ticket to be picked up by a new impl", "context": "", "use_case": "app design specs", "switched_from": "", "story": "You only need the frontier model for one single edit"}, {"id": 780049280, "item_id": 48753080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753080", "by": "mlitwiniuk", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Thanks, I'm seriously blushing ;) No, the design system isn't public. But only because it's a month old and I never considered opening it. I'll give it some thought. I don't have a design background, but I ran a software house/dev shop for almost 15 years; maybe that taught me a little. And my very first client, after seeing our very first projects, said one thing: \"I don't care how ugly this is, but for god sake, pl", "context": "ran a dev shop for 15 years", "use_case": "website design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fable 5 Is Back"}, {"id": 778424096, "item_id": 48651506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651506", "by": "ahmadyan", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think Claude Design is a wonderful product", "excerpt": "still doesn't feel integrated, like it could have been built by any other company, e.g. Microsoft could have built Microsoft Design and it would look better integrated. For example, it writes the whole front-end twice, once is claude design and then later it has to read it again and re-implement it in code. Also a lot of stuff (e.g. Claude.md, skill files, etc) are not supported, and they have their own set of ui-des", "context": "", "use_case": "UI design before implementation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Tag"}, {"id": 778348801, "item_id": 48646800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646800", "by": "theanswa", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Then we quickly move to claude.ai/design for iteration and Claude Code to build.", "excerpt": "We're two product designers at Fern and we recently rebuilt the buildwithfern.com site in five weeks with no developer help. The three things worth mentioning here from the blog: - Figma has become a very expensive virtual whiteboard. It\u2019s still in our loop, but only as a starting point for ideation and moodboarding. Then we quickly move to claude.ai/design for iteration and Claude Code to build. The code is the sour", "context": "product designer", "use_case": "design iteration", "switched_from": "Figma", "story": "How 2 Designers ditched Figma (sort of) to rebuild a marketing site"}, {"id": 776225554, "item_id": 48514097, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514097", "by": "yieldcrv", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I work in a couple tabs of Claude Design for different flows of any client side app", "excerpt": "I don't know if I\u2019m overly critical but there\u2019s gotta be a middle ground between totally AI pilled people that otherwise have no talents, and control freak veteran developers who cant let go My current process is also using Github projects in a normal scrum style way, with many tickets written or fleshed out and state managed by the LLM, and it doubling as the memory system Completely leapfrogging all these other ope", "context": "", "use_case": "UI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Automating Myself Out of Development"}, {"id": 774925600, "item_id": 48432850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432850", "by": "epolanski", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use claude design too.", "excerpt": "I use claude design too. It has been suggested to me by some very respected and experienced designers which now prototype almost exclusively in claude and then when happy refine in figma. By the way, you can always tune your prompts to not be generic, if you ask for generic UIs without detailed styling prompts you will get generic designs.", "context": "", "use_case": "UI prototyping", "switched_from": "", "story": "I design with Claude more than Figma now"}, {"id": 774917808, "item_id": 48432363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432363", "by": "firemelt", "date": "2026-06-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "from 6 sessions and 5 projects only one template that I choose anything else is really really bad", "excerpt": "amyone know how to use claude design more effectively I always alhave a feeling I use a slot machine from 6 sessions and 5 projects only one template that I choose anything else is really really bad", "context": "", "use_case": "generating design templates", "switched_from": "", "story": "I design with Claude more than Figma now"}, {"id": 774847633, "item_id": 48427977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427977", "by": "abelkhadir", "date": "2026-06-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I then use Claude design to design the full frontend in one shot.", "excerpt": "I use linux + claude code as the main driver. Before i start a project, i first write scripts manually to give claude code an idea of what im trying to do I then use Claude design to design the full frontend in one shot. then use it manually to see bugs/stuff i dont like and re-prompt it to modify. i also give it description of the scripts i wrote so it has a better idea of what i want Then i use claude code for the ", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 770061712, "item_id": 48128857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128857", "by": "lucasgw", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Claude Design + Claude Code, and results have been excellent.", "excerpt": "I have been using Claude Design + Claude Code, and results have been excellent. I have explicit clean-up instructions in Claude Code, and the handoff skill in Claude Design is pretty solid. I've been on product launches many times, so can drive the design side appropriately and keep things focused. Has been a wonderful addition to my workflow. As usual with any agent-driven tool - GIGO. If the human driving has no pr", "context": "has been on product launches many times", "use_case": "product design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"}, {"id": 765115456, "item_id": 47819716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819716", "by": "mickdarling", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything", "excerpt": "I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I got something that was satisfactory. Then I looked at the usage and it said I had used 95% of my Claude design usage for the week! This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything, if that's what they're providing as examples.", "context": "", "use_case": "design system and branding work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design"}, {"id": 764975089, "item_id": 47810943, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810943", "by": "stopachka", "date": "2026-04-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used it to build this multiplayer pelican game", "excerpt": "Here's a 2-line prompt that gives Claude Design a backend: ``` <YOUR APP IDEA HERE> ---- To get your credentials and learn about InstantDB, fetch this URL: https://instantdb.com/llm-rules/create-app/AGENTS.md ``` Every cURL request to AGENTS.md spins up a new backend and splices in the credentials. I used it to build this multiplayer pelican game: https://349b7470-3747-49e7-8ece-960a45b0b2da.claudeusercontent.com/v1/", "context": "founder of InstantDB", "use_case": "building apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Design"}, {"id": 764913168, "item_id": 47807073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807073", "by": "ossa-ma", "date": "2026-04-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design", "excerpt": "The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design [EDIT], for a few reasons: - The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive. An AI model is incapable of that, it's uninspired, it will absolutely converge to the norm and homogeneity (you see it everywhere now, just scroll on ShowHN and take a look at the UIs) and produce the safest design that appeals to its understanding of the i", "context": "", "use_case": "AI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Design"}]}