Anthropic is entering the design sector. The AI company on Friday introduced Claude Design, its first proprietary AI design tool.
Claude Design is not explicitly an AI image generator, like Google’s Nano Banana Or Halfway. Instead, you can use Claude Design to create slide presentations, social media assets, app and web interfaces (like those you might create with Claude Code), and other visual prototypes.
Anthropic says Claude Design has fine-grained controls, but don’t look for Photoshop-level options. You can change the spacing, coloring and layout, as well as leave comments for other users – or for Claude, who can make these changes himself. If you’re using it for a coding project at work, for example, Claude Design can analyze your codebase and design files to understand your brand’s kit and style guide, so everything it creates is on-brand.
Here are some of the editing controls you will have in Claude Design
AnthropicClaude Design is a research preview, that is to say it is still in the experimental phase. It is now rolling out to Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscribers.
Claude Design is powered by Opus 4.7, a new AI model released Thursday that Anthropic says has better visual intelligence to better understand images. Adobe also recently announced that it would bring its AI Creative Agent to Claude, which is complementary but distinct from Claude Design.
Given Anthropic’s focus on creating advanced AI for businesses and coders, it makes sense that its entry into this new category would focus more on workplace activities – slide presentations, not animated memes. Creative AI, such as image, video and music generators, is controversial. While AI enthusiasts use different models to optimize their workflows, artists and creators are very concerned about how the technology was designed and its effects on creative work.
