Claude Design

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “holy moley even when using Claude Design, the GUIs are just awful”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-08-25

• “between Claude Design and Fable I haven't had to do that in weeks”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-12

• “Both were done with Claude Design and Claude code along with assists from other tools along the way to make sure they are both as smooth as possible”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-05

• “Once you get that "base" the way you want in Claude Design, export it, then literally just tell your agent”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “There's an insane "feature" of Claude Design which means you can only share the link to the design with other users on your account?!”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “Claude was especially helpful (other than the web design w/ Claude Design for the prototype)”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “Once I added Claude Design, I'd easily spend $20-50/day in extra usage.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-07-07

• “Claude Design is great translating my thoughts and suggestions into something, that's consistent and better, than I could design it in predictable time.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-01

• “Claude Design can't make edits, their PPT plugin messes up even pretty simple edits if you're using it on an existing deck.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-13

• “just jam screenshots of the best bits into Claude Design when you are asking it for help”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “Claude whipped up a much better looking, working version of (part) of the website in about 5 minutes”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-07

• “I used Claude Design to create a few mockups to choose from, chose the one I liked the most”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-19

• “Claude Design is significantly better than Figma Make. Start with asking it to get up to speed on your design system, or build you a design system from your brand guidelines... and it does a pretty good job. It also does a surprisingly good job of using some of the more advanced Figma tools that a lot of human designers struggle with... 3 days in, I've been really impressed.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “My 76yo Dad just used Claude Design to make a simple commercial tenancy/lease management CRUD app”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “claude design worked great on the first attempt for me, miles ahead of what figma make does.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-18