Claude’s series of new and expanded features continued this week with a new beta feature that lets you create interactive visuals, including graphs and charts, directly in a chat. These small, interactive tools allow you to modify controls and see the graphics change to reflect the change.
This feature builds on the company’s earlier “Imagine with Claude” concept of letting AI construct visual outputs without requiring code. The latest version integrates these visuals directly into the conversation itself. Instead of living in a side panel like Claude’s artifacts, the diagrams appear online as part of the response and evolve as the discussion continues.
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1. Coffee Calculations
The first prompt was based on something practical. I asked Claude:
“Create an interactive coffee to water ratio calculator. Choose your brew method and number of cups and get exact coffee and water measurements.”
In a few seconds, a small interactive tool appeared in the chat. At the top was a brew method selector, offering familiar choices such as pour-over and French press. Below that was a simple control that allowed me to choose how many cups I wanted to make.
The clever part was how the screen responded. When I went from one cup to three, the measurements below changed instantly. The visual showed the precise amount of coffee grounds and water required for this style of brew. It was the kind of calculation that coffee lovers often memorize or look up online. Seeing it rendered as a small dynamic graph made the process almost obvious.
Instead of explaining brew ratios with text, the chatbot had discreetly built a little barista tool within the conversation.
2. Volcanic fun
For the second test, I wanted to see how Claude handled an educational task. I asked him to:
“Show an interactive cross-section of a volcano with labeled parts. Animate the parts when I activate an eruption.”
Claude responded with something that looked like a digital page ripped out of a science textbook. The volcano appeared open on its side, revealing its internal structure.
When I activated eruption control, the magma chamber lit up and glowed upward through the conduit like glowing lava rising toward the surface. The cessation of the eruption returned the mountain to its dormant state.
The whole thing felt like a miniature geology lesson assembled in real time.
3. Vibrating dresser
The third experiment leaned fully toward absurdity. I asked Claude to:
“Build an outfit generator based on mood. Choose a temperature and mood and generate a very specific outfit suggestion with a stick figure template.”
Claude responded with the kind of interface that might appear in a very strange fashion app. At the top was a temperature slider ranging from cold to sweltering. Below that were several ambiance buttons. Selecting a combination generated an outfit for a small stick figure model.
When I chose a cooler temperature and warm ambiance, the stick figure appeared wrapped in what looked like an oversized sweater and thick socks. When I changed the mood to chaotic, the outfit became considerably less sensible. The stick figure wore contrasting colors and sunglasses, suggesting someone who made bold decisions before leaving home.
The text description next to the figurine explained what to wear and the mood she could project. The little number is updated every time the controls change, making it strangely tempting to keep experimenting with different combinations.
None of these examples are likely to change the world on their own, but the way Claude created them is quite impressive and quite amusing.
The approach suggests how chatbots could communicate small visual demonstrations on the fly. The visuals are deliberately temporary, but their ephemeral quality makes them less like sketches drawn during a conversation, and that could really attract more potential users. At least that’s the vision Claude hopes to sketch.
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