Anthropic Launches Claude Design: AI Tool Generates Prototypes from Prompts to Rival Figma

AI company Anthropic today officially launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division. This tool allows users to quickly create professional-grade visual works through simple conversational prompts and fine editing control, including design drafts, interactive prototypes, slides, single-page documents, and marketing materials. Its core power comes from the simultaneously released Claude Opus 4.7 visual model, which is the company's most powerful general-purpose visual model to date.

The background of this release is noteworthy. Anthropic's Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger resigned from the board of design platform Figma on April 14, and on the same day, media reports revealed that Anthropic's new model would include design features directly competing with Figma's main products. This series of events clearly indicates that the launch of Claude Design aims to challenge Figma's dominant position in the current design software market.

Currently, Claude Design has not announced a specific public release date. Anthropic stated that this is deliberate, and the company will decide the formal launch timing based on product iteration and user feedback. This reflects that leading AI labs are expanding from underlying model providers to upstream application layers, directly entering niche markets dominated by mature software companies. As such AI tools mature, the production processes and competitive landscape in the design field may undergo significant changes.