Anthropic Claude Design launches labs

Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17, a new Anthropic Labs product for making prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and landing pages with text prompts. (anthropic.com) The product is powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, with rollout staggered through launch day. (anthropic.com) Anthropic said users can start from a prompt, images, documents including DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX files, or a company codebase, then refine outputs with inline comments, direct edits, and custom sliders. (anthropic.com) The tool is aimed at designers, founders, product managers, marketers, and sales teams that need visual work quickly without starting inside a traditional design app. (techcrunch.com) (anthropic.com) Anthropic said Claude Design can build a team design system during onboarding by reading codebases and design files, then reuse company colors, typography, and components across later projects. (anthropic.com) Exports are part of the pitch: decks can go out as PPTX files or into Canva, while other work can be shared as PDFs and URLs, according to Anthropic and TechCrunch. (anthropic.com) (techcrunch.com) Claude Design is the latest product to come out of Anthropic Labs, the unit Anthropic expanded in January to incubate experimental products built around Claude’s newest capabilities. (anthropic.com) In that January announcement, Anthropic said Claude Code had grown from a research preview into a billion-dollar product in six months, and said Mike Krieger had joined Labs to build alongside Ben Mann. (anthropic.com) The release shows Anthropic pushing beyond chat and coding into visual work software, while still labeling Claude Design a research preview rather than a finished production platform. (anthropic.com) (techcrunch.com) For now, Anthropic is selling Claude Design as a faster way to get from an idea to something visual, then hand that work into tools and teams that finish it. (techcrunch.com) (anthropic.com)