Humane was announced on Friday launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create graphics like prototypes, slides, one-page apps and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is meant to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.
With Claude Design, users describe what they want and Claude will create an initial version. From there, users can improve graphics with direct edits or requests.
For example, you could ask Claude to “prototype a peaceful meditation app for mobile. It should have relaxing typography, subtle colors inspired by nature, and a clean layout.”
You can then tweak the colors, size of the typography, or ask Claude to add a dark mode toggle.
While Claude Design may initially seem like it wants to compete with the popular design app Canva, which just expanded its own AI capabilities, Anthropic told TechCrunch that it’s meant to complement rather than replace it. The company said its new product is built for people who don’t start with a design tool and need to quickly get from an idea to something visual.
Once teams have created presentation decks or prototypes, they can export them as PDFs, URLs, PPTX files, or send them to Canva. Once in Canva, they’re fully editable and collaborative, Anthropic says.
Claude Design can also apply a team’s design system to every project it creates so that the results are consistent with the company’s overall visual style. Anthropic says Claude Design is able to do this by reading a company’s codebase and design files. Additionally, teams can refine these components and maintain more than one design system.
The new product is powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscribers.
The launch highlights Anthropic’s continued push into the enterprise and consumer categories as competition heats up around AI tools in the workplace. In January, Anthropic released Claude Cowork, an agent assistant built for complex tasks. A few weeks later, the company brought Cowork agency plugins designed to automate specialized tasks across a company’s various departments.
Today’s announcement comes a few days later Bloomberg reported that VCs are offering the company a pre-emptive funding round that would value it at $800 billion or more, which would almost match or even surpass rival OpenAI. However, so far, Anthropic is not interested in the latest offers, according to the report.
