Claude Design Riot Design, Figma, Adobe Market Value Flow

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Original source:Quantum bit

Claude hit another industry

Visual Design ToolClaude DesignPublished, Adobe, Figma, Wix market values melted。

This is the first experimental product of Anthropic Labs, an AI-based visual design collaboration platform, a flagship model just releasedClaude Opus 4.7Drive。

THIS IS A DIRECT CHALLENGE TO EXISTING DESIGN SOFTWARE GIANTS BY AI LARGE MODELS。

Three killers. Adobe jumped on the spot

What the hell is Claude Design

THE INTERFACE LOOKS SIMPLE. IT'S THE TRADITIONAL DESIGN SOFTWARE PLUS AN AI CHAT SIDEBAR。

The designer does not change his habits, and there is also a manual panel to adjust the size of the fine particles for each component。

IT COULD ALSO LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE COMPONENTS THAT NEED TO BE CHANGED, AS IN THE CASE OF HUMAN COLLABORATION, AND AI WOULD AUTOMATICALLY DO SO。

THE WORKFLOW IS CLEAR HERE: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE DEMAND GENERATION OF THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE DIALOGUE/COMMENTATION OUTPUT。

What really shakes traditional software is three killer-grade functions。

First: it knows your brand better than you do。

Claude Design has direct access to your company's code library and design files, automatic extraction of brands, fonts, modules, and an exclusive design system. And then all the resulting designs follow this standard automatically。

In other words, it might take three months for an intern to figure out the design code of the company, and Claude Design just needs to look at your code library。

Second: Anything can be entered。

You can throw it to Word documents, PPT, Excel forms, competitions, code repository links, and even grab web elements directly using built-in tools. All of this information, it's all understandable, it's all designed。

The most painful problem for designers is that they “can't read” and there is no such thing。

Third: Designing a direct code change。

The draft was finished, packed in a handoff bag, delivered directly to Claude Code. There is no manual link between the design and the operational code。

It really becomes an automated stream of water from ideas to products。

If Figma is a “cooperative canvas”, Canva is a “tempo factory” and Claude Design is a direct line of water from thought to product。

It sounds beautiful, but how does it actually work

A week's work, a conversation is over

Only a one-word tip by an Internet player generates a complete 3D low polygonal Flappy Bird。

Please code up a 3d fancy bird in html csss js and run it in opinions.

The job of writing the game code honestly, which Claude Code used to do, requires manual intervention to achieve this effect in visual and animation performance。

Now with Claude Design, it's a one-time, all-automatic。

Generate complex dashboard interfaces, not in words

But after a few hours of publication, it's the early test users who actually use the depth, and who give more data than they think。

A senior product designer from Brilliant shared his experience: a complex product page, and he said that he would be happy to be able to be able to work with his familyIN OTHER AI DESIGN TOOLS, IT TAKES 20 MORE TIMES TO DEBUG THE HINTI don't know。

In Claude Design? Two times。

The Datadog product team used to be a week-long process from demand brief to model design to review approval. Now we have a conversation。

Claude Design's target users are not just designers。

The product manager can draw the idea directly without waiting for the designer。

the founders could take care of the day before the financing。

Marketers can produce professional landing pages without a cumbersome design demand process。

If you type, you can produce high-quality visual work。

So should designers be worried about unemployment

In the Anthropic official announcement, it was polite to position its products as a tool to strengthen designers rather than as a substitute。

Even experienced designers have to manage their exploration -- you rarely have time to go in a dozen directions, so you can only limit yourself to a few。

Claude Design was meant to be。

But the solution is too harsh。

The words “Destroying the Design Industry” have been painted on social media。

The response of capital markets is more honest than any comment: falling stock prices indicate that investors believe that the moat of traditional design software is being dismantled。

Figma's collaborative ecology and Adobe's professional tool chain, once insurmountable advantages, suddenly appear less solid in front of AI, which does not need a learning curve。

But do designers really lose their jobs

MORE GENERALLY, AI WOULD TAKE OVER DUPLICATION OF EFFORT (TO ENSURE BRAND CONSISTENCY AND GENERATE MULTIPLE VARIANTS), BUT DESIGNERS COULD FOCUS ON STRATEGIC THINKING AND CREATIVE DIRECTION。

LIKE THE AI PROGRAMMING ERA, SOFTWARE ENGINEERS FOCUS ON ARCHITECTURE AND MANAGING COORDINATED MULTI-INTELLECTUAL WORKFLOWS。

Maybe soon, there will be a "Harness Designing."。

References:

[1] https://www.antropic.com/news/claude-design-antropic-labs

[2]https://x.com/claudeai/status/20451567690213649