Claude just dropped another existential crisis type shi that nuked the hell out of people's already high cortisol levels trying to adapt to the neverending boom of tech and AI developments:
Claude Design.
In a nutshell, it's a service that allows you to actually design your projects, which traditionally was done in apps like Figma or Adobe XD.
With this tool though, it allows you to really make the best out of UI/UX instead of just prompting code. It's a specialized area that really caters to your specific designs.
You can either paste pictures of the type of vibe you want to copy, prompt it, or let the thing itself cook because my guy, this bro really can.
THIS THING IS ALSO COMPONENT BASED.
YOU CAN LITERALLY DRAG AROUND YOUR COMPONENTS TO STYLE IT.
No more typing in prompts to put buttons to the left, make them small, make them round, or slightly adjust the spacing for the 48th time because the AI somehow still misunderstood you.
To be fair, this kind of tech is not exactly new. Figma ruled that area for years. Traditionally, we'd have UI Designers make Figma files, then pass them onto developers for implementation.
But the hurdle was always that Figma files don't magically transpose themselves into code. It's still up to developers to think through the implementation and actually build the thing properly.
Now with this app though?
All hell breaks loose.
Devs are now UI designers.
Designers are now devs.
The borders are starting to blur hard.
Anyways, at first I'm kind of skeptical. I mean, to be honest, I still feel like it's a bit of a redundant feature. We already have Claude Code that literally does everything. I mean, its
UI output is already pretty good too, so why even bother?
So for a few days after release, I honestly just ignored it.
Until I saw that in my subscription plan it actually had a separate usage allocation from my other model consumption.
And at that point my brain immediately went "well damn might as well", so I connected one of my public GitHub projects and jokingly typed: "yeah make this cool and shit"
AND HOLY HELL IS IT COOL AND SHIT.
I realized how low the bar of my expectations for UI/UX had become because I've been so desensitized by years of generic flat rounded gradient designs from Tailwind and shadcn that were basically slop propagated across the internet.
I genuinely thought that's almost as good as it gets.
Now with this?
Jesus christ.
This thing looked like months worth of UI/UX planning got one-shotted instantly.
The application went way beyond the generic slop components and now it's REALLY polished.
Like genuinely polished.
Not wow this is pretty good for AI
No.
Actually polished.
WHAT THE HELL.
I'm literally typing this right now while staring at it still shellshocked as it continues to casually output pure gold.
IS THIS THE NEW STANDARD OF SLOP DESIGN?
Because I genuinely cannot imagine what the state of the industry will look like in a few months once people start ramping this thing up properly and mass producing slop projects, except now with highly cracked UI/UX on top of it.
This used to be one of the last safe havens for UI/UX cope mfkers because at least people would always say:
"yeah but AI can't replicate soul in design"
Well congratulations bud.
You jinxed it hard.
Now even THAT is getting automated.
Meanwhile:
• Figma market value crashing
• UI designers stress refreshing LinkedIn
• developers suddenly pretending they cared about typography this whole time
• people running around in mild industry hysteria
Absolute cinema honestly.
But anyways, don't worry brochachos.
We will all be replaced by clankers eventually anyway.
It's fine I guess.
Come join us in the shelter homes twins, I made a spot for yall.
Anyways, after a few more days of using this tool, I gotta say:
I'm genuinely REALLY impressed with it.
Especially after discovering that it ALSO helps create:
• video presentations
• pitch decks
• business profiles
What the helly man 😭
It's literally becoming an all in one machine.
I have this old project called ses-journal that I STILL haven't properly pitched back to the client. And the project was literally completed over a year ago already.
Not because the app wasn't done.
But because I still needed to create all the presentation materials and project pitch stuff.
You know.
The part everybody procrastinates until the heat death of the universe.
But now?
You're telling me I can literally just prompt this thing to generate those too?
Damn.
I might actually have a chance again to repitch ses-journal and finally get paid holy moly.
However, it's not all rainbows and unicorns in the Figma killer ecosystem because this thing definitely comes with concerns.
Mainly?
Session usage.
I connected another repository and asked it to redesign a landing page.
ONE prompt.
ONE.
And it completely evaporated my weekly token allocation instantly.
Mind you this was fresh 0% usage too.
Zamn 😭
At that point I kinda realized:
okay yeah this thing is insanely cool
...but maybe not fully practical yet.
At least not for actual full production workflows.
Right now it feels:
• insanely futuristic
• insanely polished
• insanely token hungry
So while it's definitely revolutionary, I'm still not fully convinced yet that it's mature enough to become the definitive workflow standard for actual project lifecycles.
That said though?
I'm just glad Anthropic bundled this together with the Pro plan instead of making it another completely separate paid service.
Please don't let me jinx this.
Overall, it's pretty crazy seeing Anthropic showing absolute dominance in the market right now, although honestly I do fear the implications of what this could eventually mean.
Those greedy ahhs do NOT hesitate to squeeze everyone as long as it's still profitable.
That part never changes.
Thank god there's still OpenAI to clutch this up.
I'm genuinely looking forward to how they retaliate against this kind of revolutionary shovel because holy shit 😭
