Anthropic launches Claude Design for prototypes

The new research preview, powered by Claude Opus 4.7, lets users build prototypes and decks.

Anthropic introduced Claude Design Today, a new product built for people who need to produce visual work quickly but don't come from a design background. The tool, developed under the company's Anthropic Labs division, is available now in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscribers.

This new Design is not an image generator. It is closer in spirit to a visual prototyping assistant. Users describe what they want, and the tool builds a first version. From there, the design can be refined through conversation, inline comments or direct edits. Custom sliders, generated by Claude itself, allow users to adjust spacing, color and layout in real time.

The product is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, a model Anthropic released Thursday with improved visual intelligence and stronger performance across coding and multi-step tasks.

What Claude Design actually does

The tool covers a range of visual work. Founders and account executives can turn rough outlines into presentation decks. Product managers can sketch feature flows and pass them directly to Claude Code for implementation. Marketers can produce landing pages, social assets and campaign visuals. Designers working under time pressure can spin up interactive prototypes without going through code review.

For teams, Claude Design can read a company's codebase and design files during onboarding to build a custom design system. Once that system is in place, every project the tool creates automatically uses the company's colors, typography and components. Teams can maintain more than one design system and refine them over time.

Finished work can be exported as a PDF, PPTX, standalone HTML file or shared as an internal URL. Users can also send designs directly to Canva, where they become fully editable and collaborative. Anthropic said the two tools are intended to work together rather than compete. Claude Design is built for getting from an idea to something visual fast. Canva is where teams polish and collaborate on the result.

How Claude Design fits Anthropic's broader direction

The launch is part of a broader push by Anthropic into enterprise and professional tools. In January, the company introduced Claude Cowork, an agentic assistant designed for complex workplace tasks. Weeks later, it added plug-ins to Cowork intended to automate specialized functions across different departments.

Claude Design follows the same logic. Anthropic has built its reputation on models trusted by businesses and developers, and its entry into visual creation reflects that same orientation. The focus is on slide decks, wireframes and prototypes rather than the kind of open-ended creative generation that has drawn criticism from artists and illustrators. The company has largely stayed away from consumer-facing image and video generation, and this Design stays on that side of the line.

What comes next

Anthropic said it plans to expand Claude Design's integrations over the coming weeks so teams can connect it to more of the tools already in their workflows. For Enterprise organizations, the product is turned off by default and must be enabled by an administrator in organization settings.

The rollout is gradual and access is included in existing subscription plans, with the option to continue beyond standard usage limits by enabling extra usage. Users can access the tool at claude.ai/design.

The launch comes days after a Bloomberg report that venture capitalists have offered Anthropic a preemptive funding round that would value the company at $800 billion or more, which would nearly match its rival OpenAI. Anthropic has not pursued those offers, according to the report.