I tried out claude design yesterday and I have to say, it's exactly what I thought (hoped?) Figma Make was going to be.

I didn't want yet another lovable.dev or v0 with figma make, I wanted the prompt -> figma design which I could iterate on by hand once I got something in place (and also faster route to creating the prototype in figma) to play with the UX of it.

Used Claude Design to build the landing page for my side project (strimoza.com) over the weekend. Honestly impressive for a solo dev with no design background — got something shippable in a few hours. That said, I still ended up going back to tweak things manually. It's great for 80%, the last 20% still needs judgment. Not sure it kills Figma for teams, but for indie devs it's a game changer.

I don't have much experience with Figma but looking at their prices I'd think that for someone who isn't doing a one off designs Claude Design would be much more expensive (especially if not on subscriptions) https://www.figma.com/pricing/

Isn’t a huge part of Figma the shared component libraries and design systems? It’s less about drawing UIs and more about keeping products consistent across teams within the company.

my 2 cents - Claude is not going after EVERY single SaaS (or maybe not yet), but after those products that are adopted by individuals that are keen at experimenting new tools (software engineers, designers etc etc).

At the same time I have the feeling Claude Design is more useful to get UI context closer to Code Claude then anything (and eventually some quick prototyping), but I might be wrong.

Either way, I've been trying to upload a 95MB .fig file and I get a generic error message without any information on the issue itself (is the file too big? not the right format? Tell me!)

> takeover attempt by Adobe, that was later blocked on competition grounds

Would Figma in Adobe be a stronger competitor against Claude Design today than Figma and Adobe can be separately?

It's a little unfair to Figma when its moralless competitor is ignoring every copyright laws.

I tested it yesterday. Kinda impressive, but also design output is pretty boring.

I’ve tried it. It’s useless.

It's funny to see all of these dramatic articles coming out about Claude Design, when Google's Stitch[0] has been around for at least 6 months and no one has batted an eye. https://stitch.withgoogle.com/

I'm not sure how much of that is overhyping Claude, or Google's poor marketing of their own products.