{"id":1888673,"date":"2026-04-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1888673"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:00:00","slug":"anthropic-now-has-a-design-assistant-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1888673","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic now has a design assistant too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Z3kR1DXzv214Fd6gMg4VKQ&#8211;\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/claude-design-2-alt-press-logo-claude-1920x1080_7385.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"article-4cd88aae-0fae-453f-a0cd-f6f1dec687f6\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto md:px-10 md:max-w-[1220px]\">\n<nav class=\"prestige-breadcrumb relative mx-4 md:mx-0\" aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<ol class=\"no-scrollbar overflow-scroll whitespace-nowrap text-battleship\">\n<li class=\"inline\">\n<li class=\"inline-block cursor-default last:pr-10 md:last:pr-20 font-bold\">AI<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<header class=\"mb-4 px-4 md:mb-6 md:px-0\">\n<h1 class=\"layout-h1 my-2 font-bold leading-tight\">Anthropic now has a design assistant too<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"my-2 text-[18px] font-light leading-5 md:max-w-[660px] md:text-[20px]\/[28px]\">Canva AI and Firefly AI Assistant, meet Claude Design.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"flex-col items-start lg:flex lg:flex-row lg:items-center lg:justify-between mt-6\">\n<div class=\"relative md:mr-[10px]\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n<div class=\"flex mr-2\">\n<div class=\"shrink-0 cursor-pointer inline-block size-[42px] lg:size-[48px]\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt role=\"img\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full rounded-full object-cover object-center shadow-[0_0_0_2px_#ffffff]\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Pd6vmkhC1uW1FFTjwp9Yrw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTgwO2g9ODA-\/https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2023-09%2F210e82a0-5e14-11ee-93bd-e80525011260&amp;compress=1&amp;progressive=1&amp;quality=75&amp;client=hawkeye&amp;signature=2af279b2cbc8a93bc6d3b69a3ee0e9743c8ea3e5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-block\">\n<div class=\"w-max text-sm\/5 font-semibold lg:!flex flex items-center\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col\">\n<div class=\"flex w-max items-center\">Igor Bonifacic<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"font-normal sm:before:inline-block\">Senior reporter<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lg:hidden\">\n<div class=\"text-xs text-dolphin dark:text-shark md:text-sm\/5 pt-4\">\n<div class=\"inline-block\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-17T15:00:00.000Z\">Fri, April 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ml-0 mt-4 flex items-center lg:ml-3 lg:mt-0\">\n<div class=\"ml-0 mr-2\">\n<div class=\"relative flex\">Add Engadget on Google<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden lg:block\">\n<div class=\"text-xs text-dolphin dark:text-shark md:text-sm\/5 pt-4\">\n<div class=\"inline-block\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-17T15:00:00.000Z\">Fri, April 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-1 gap-x-8 lg:gap-x-0 mx-auto md:px-10 md:max-w-[1220px] md:grid-cols-[[main-start]_1fr_[main-end_right-start]_min-content_[right-end]] lg:!gap-x-8\">\n<div class=\"md:col-main\" data-i13n-boundary=\"true\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_minmax(auto,750px)_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<figure class=\"relative col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden fig-image-round left-1\/2 w-screen -translate-x-1\/2 md:left-0 md:w-auto md:translate-x-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"object-cover object-center\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/4ZbENckPXZ1vqbDNq7i1CQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/Lqm7K832Scm4Z1xKb.Rawg--~B\/aD0yMTYwO3c9Mzg0MDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/claude-design-2-alt-press-logo-claude-1920x1080_7385.png\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-[0.875rem]\/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 mt-2.5 md:mt-2 pr-2.5\">\n<div><span class=\"[&amp;_p]:inline\">Claude Design allows Anthropic&#8217;s chatbot to generate visual assets like presentations, prototypes and more.<\/span><span> (Anthropic)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:grid-cols-article lg:max-w-[750px] drop-cap\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust image editor. Now, a little more than a month after that release, Anthropic has announced Claude Design, a new research preview that allows subscribers to use Claude to generate designs, prototypes, slides and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&#8220;Claude Design gives designers room to explore widely and everyone else a way to produce visual work,&#8221; Anthropic says of its newest product. As with its previous forays into image generation, the company isn&#8217;t calling this, well, an image generator. Instead, Anthropic describes Opus 4.7, the system powering the app, as its most capable vision model to date. In other words, you won&#8217;t be using Claude Design to whip up a picture of a cat in space eating a lasagna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">As you might expect, every project in Claude Design starts with a prompt. From there, Anthropic notes users can refine Claude&#8217;s outputs through conversation, inline comments and direct edits. Like Adobe&#8217;s recently announced AI assistant, Claude will also generate custom sliders that correspond to specific elements in a design, which the user can push and pull to modify those elements. For instance, in the screenshot below, you can see how Claude has tweaked the interface to allow the user to adjust the glow and density of arcs it used to illustrate a connected network.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claude Design will generate custom sliders you can use to adjust specific visual elements.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" class=\"fig-image-round\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/62XX_T268wYLpJDbo_DJ_Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MA--\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/claude-design-3-blog_1540.png\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-[0.875rem]\/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 mt-2.5 md:mt-2 pr-2.5\">\n<div><span class=\"[&amp;_p]:inline\">Claude Design will generate custom sliders you can use to adjust specific visual elements.<\/span><span> (Anthropic)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Anthropic has also built an onboarding process that allows Claude to build an internal visual language after reading your organization&#8217;s codebase and existing design documents. &#8220;Every project after that uses your colors, typography, and comments automatically,&#8221; according to the company. Outside of text prompts, there&#8217;s also support for image and document uploads, and Anthropic has even included a web capture tool so enterprise customers can snapshot elements from their company&#8217;s website. There&#8217;s also built-in sharing, and you can export a design directly to Claude Code. In the coming weeks, Anthropic has promised to make it easier to build integrations with its new app.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_nd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_17d9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Claude Design arrives in the same week that both Adobe and Canva released their own visual AI assistants. If Anthropic is preparing to eat Canva\u2019s lunch, it&#8217;s doing so in a strange way given that you can export your Claude Design projects to Canva. If you want to try the new app for yourself, it&#8217;s available as part of Anthropic&#8217;s Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscriptions, with usage running up against your usage limits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"md:col-main grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:grid-cols-article lg:max-w-[750px]\">\n<div class=\"no-scrollbar col-body mx-4 mb-8 mt-2.5 overflow-x-scroll whitespace-nowrap md:mx-0 md:max-w-[750px] md:overflow-x-visible md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto max-w-screen-sm\">\n<ul class=\"inline-flex text-xs md:text-sm\">\n<li class=\"mr-6\">About our ads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:grid-cols-article lg:max-w-[750px] drop-cap\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust image editor. Now, a little more than a month after that release, Anthropic has announced Claude Design, a new research preview that allows subscribers to use Claude to generate designs, prototypes, slides and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&#8220;Claude Design gives designers room to explore widely and everyone else a way to produce visual work,&#8221; Anthropic says of its newest product. As with its previous forays into image generation, the company isn&#8217;t calling this, well, an image generator. Instead, Anthropic describes Opus 4.7, the system powering the app, as its most capable vision model to date. In other words, you won&#8217;t be using Claude Design to whip up a picture of a cat in space eating a lasagna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">As you might expect, every project in Claude Design starts with a prompt. From there, Anthropic notes users can refine Claude&#8217;s outputs through conversation, inline comments and direct edits. Like Adobe&#8217;s recently announced AI assistant, Claude will also generate custom sliders that correspond to specific elements in a design, which the user can push and pull to modify those elements. For instance, in the screenshot below, you can see how Claude has tweaked the interface to allow the user to adjust the glow and density of arcs it used to illustrate a connected network.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claude Design will generate custom sliders you can use to adjust specific visual elements.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" class=\"fig-image-round\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/62XX_T268wYLpJDbo_DJ_Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MA--\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/claude-design-3-blog_1540.png\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-[0.875rem]\/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 mt-2.5 md:mt-2 pr-2.5\">\n<div><span class=\"[&amp;_p]:inline\">Claude Design will generate custom sliders you can use to adjust specific visual elements.<\/span><span> (Anthropic)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Anthropic has also built an onboarding process that allows Claude to build an internal visual language after reading your organization&#8217;s codebase and existing design documents. &#8220;Every project after that uses your colors, typography, and comments automatically,&#8221; according to the company. Outside of text prompts, there&#8217;s also support for image and document uploads, and Anthropic has even included a web capture tool so enterprise customers can snapshot elements from their company&#8217;s website. There&#8217;s also built-in sharing, and you can export a design directly to Claude Code. In the coming weeks, Anthropic has promised to make it easier to build integrations with its new app.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_nd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_17d9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Claude Design arrives in the same week that both Adobe and Canva released their own visual AI assistants. If Anthropic is preparing to eat Canva\u2019s lunch, it&#8217;s doing so in a strange way given that you can export your Claude Design projects to Canva. If you want to try the new app for yourself, it&#8217;s available as part of Anthropic&#8217;s Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscriptions, with usage running up against your usage limits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/anthropic-now-has-a-design-assistant-too-150000903.html&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Z3kR1DXzv214Fd6gMg4VKQ&#8211;\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/claude-design-2-alt-press-logo-claude-1920x1080_7385.png&#8221;] AI Anthropic now has a design assistant too Canva AI and Firefly AI Assistant, meet Claude Design. 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