I just discovered Claude design last week. It really is a game changer for web design. I’ve also used it for carousel type posts. It creates clean cards really nicely. The rate limit is a bit low. I can only work on a few projects at a time and get so far with them but hey, I guess that’s the trade-off. I’m curious, is every Claude tool rate limited?
WTF I can create a whole design system for any of my brands or any of my personal projects in like 15 minutes??
Then I looked at usage. and 59% of my token usage was gone with a single design system!!
After that, for the first week I was really tentative, and I just did minimal stuff and I was waiting for the weekly reset. The second week, I started realising a couple of things, primarily that you don't have to use Claude Design all the time, and also for quicker designs, if I don't have a fully polished idea yet, I'm going to use Haiku first.
Tips (based on a my rough global workflow):
Happy to provide an example of how i'd create something tangible with these tips if it helps.
I am building a hi-fi mobile app prototype in Claude Design (claude.ai/design). It will include an AI extraction feature that uses my own Claude API key. I need to share it with remote usability test participants via a public link for unmoderated testing.
Two problems I cannot figure out:
1. How do I include a real AI extraction feature in a prototype and share it with remote participants without exposing my Claude API key?
2. Claude Design does not seem to offer a public sharing URL – how do others get their Claude Design prototypes in front of remote participants?
I am not a developer. Looking for the simplest safe approach.
Thank you!
So, I’ve decided to try design for the first time getting browser page unresponsive and 404 console error of stuff failing to load.
Sometimes some things do load but the site is a mess and the generated html is bad.
Any tips or design is just not that good right now?
I think Claude Design is finally the best version of web design vibe coding out there. The best of both worlds because the dev handoff is so easy…
For context, I’m the only UI/UX designer in our team. So imagine my frustration that my 4 developers are all waiting on me to finish my task before handing it off to them because they have Claude code empowering their productivity while i literally have none. Figma make is trash and the Claude Code writing to Figma is still ugly. I tried soooo many stuff - Google Stitch, using Claude Code to generate HTML (generic still) and then putting it to Figma for more grand edits…
Then comes Claude Design which I haven’t taken seriously because of how much it eats up usage until I got better at using it… right now I just finished the massive redesign of one of our business websites and also was able to create a really nice and fun prototypes of our AI apps. IT WAS SO FUN… being able to implement all my “nice to haves” straight off the bat. All the animations and transitions that I’ve always wanted but the devs won’t do it because they don’t have a reference or prototype.
Here’s how I use Claude Design, happy to share tips and also learn from the others as well…
Every new version scores higher on benchmarks. Faster, more capable, better reasoning.
But somewhere between 3 Opus and now, it stopped surprising me.
Old Claude would push back. Disagree. Say something I didn’t expect. Sometimes it was wrong, but it felt like it had a perspective.
Now it’s like talking to someone who’s very, very good at seeming engaged.
Has anyone else noticed this? Or am I just romanticising something that was never really there?
been using claude design for a few weeks now and figured i'd dump some notes here before i forget. nothing groundbreaking, just stuff that took me way too long to figure out on my own.
first thing nobody tells you: do the design system setup BEFORE you build anything. i spent my first session prompting "build me a landing page for X" and got the most generic ai-looking output you can imagine. then i actually uploaded some brand stuff, let it extract tokens, approved them, and suddenly everything after that looked... like a real product? same prompts, totally different result. the docs say this but i skimmed past it like an idiot.
second thing. it eats tokens. like, a lot. it's on a separate weekly budget from regular claude chat and claude code which is nice in theory but if you're regenerating stuff over and over in chat you'll burn through it. the refine controls (inline comments, direct text edits, sliders) use way less than re-prompting. once i started using those for small fixes instead of typing "actually can you make the padding bigger" in chat, my budget lasted way longer. i'm on max 20x and it's mostly fine, on the $20 plan you'll feel it fast.
also re: animations. they're live react components running in the browser, not video files. You can download standalone html file and upload to claude2video it will generate mp4 video from that.
honest take on where it fits in the landscape since people always ask: it's not killing figma. figma is still better for any real design team workflow, devmode, multi-person collab. v0 and lovable are still better if you want to skip design entirely and just spin up an mvp with auth and a db. where this thing wins is the loop from "i have an idea" to "working prototype" to "claude code builds the actual app from it". the design system carrying through to the shipped code is the part that's genuinely different.
if you're a solo founder or pm or someone who keeps getting stuck between figma mockups and a real thing you can show people, worth learning. if you have a design team and a real component library already, probably overkill.
it's a research preview btw so half of this might be wrong in two months.
If you're using Claude Design right now to build anything meaningful, stop what you're doing and manually export your project files. Seriously.
A massive thread just blew up on HN (sitting at nearly 200 upvotes), and I’ve been testing and digging into the fallout all morning. The reality is brutal: if you cancel your Anthropic subscription renewal, they don't just downgrade your limits. They instantly revoke your access to Claude Design entirely and lock you out of all your past projects.
No read-only mode. No 30-day grace period to download your code. You hit unsubscribe, and your workspace goes instantly dark. One user canceled their renewal meant for mid-May, but got locked out of active projects hours before the cycle even ended.
Let me break this down, because the implications for how we actually build with AI are much bigger than a simple billing bug.
As a PM who tests AI tools nightly, I’ve moved a massive chunk of my rapid prototyping to Claude Design over the last few months. The interface is undeniably slick for iterating on front-end components. But an enterprise-grade tool is only as good as its exit strategy. In the traditional SaaS world, there is an unspoken, ironclad rule: you do not hold a user's historical data hostage when they pause their billing. If I cancel Figma, my files don't evaporate; I just can't edit them. If I drop ChatGPT Plus, I still see my old chats.
Anthropic is treating Claude Design like a transient sandbox, but they are marketing it—and we are using it—as a persistent project workspace. That is a fatal product mismatch.
What makes this worse is the unpredictability. Over on GitHub (issue #54584 for CC), there are active bug reports of users with active Max tier subscriptions getting their Claude Design access randomly revoked with a message saying "Claude Design is available to users on subscription plans"—even when they are fully paid up. So we are looking at a deeply fragile entitlement system where the absolute worst-case scenario (total data loss) is the default failure state.
Here's what most people miss when they evaluate these AI coding environments: we are unconsciously shifting our source of truth.
A year ago, you'd generate a snippet in a web UI and paste it into VS Code. Your IDE was the source of truth. Now, with tools like Claude Design, the UI itself holds the context. The project sidebar *is* your repository. It tracks the custom instructions, the iterative decisions, the memory of what you tried and discarded. When Anthropic nukes your access to that sidebar, they aren't just stopping you from generating new code. They are burning down your entire dev environment and the context that makes the code make sense.
Think about the people building complex stuff here. You might have three different 'Projects' set up—one for coding, one for creative writing, one as a strategist. Each of those has a carefully tuned system prompt and dozens of uploaded reference documents. Rebuilding that context window from scratch isn't just annoying; it's hours of lost labor. The fact that a simple billing pause wipes out that highly curated context shows a complete misunderstanding of how power users actually interact with LLMs in 2026.
This is exactly the kind of unforced error that is driving the mass migration to local models and API-driven workflows. Every time a major AI lab pulls a stunt like this, the r/LocalLLaMA community gets stronger. It's why I keep telling devs to look hard at open-source alternatives and API setups where *you* own the state. Relying on a closed-source cloud UI for the actual state of your work is basically playing Russian roulette with your productivity.
Let’s look at the alternatives for a second. The community has been building open-source Claude Design alternatives specifically because of trust issues like this. If you are burned by this, look into running things locally with Ollama for your daily driver tasks, or use an open client like Lobe Chat or LibreChat where you just plug in your API key. With an API approach, your prompts, your projects, and your system instructions are stored locally. If you stop paying for the API, your past conversations don't suddenly lock up.
I saw warnings blowing up on X yesterday (even tagging folks like Matt Pocock) frantically telling devs to secure their code before they adjust their billing settings. It’s insane that we have to treat unsubscribing like defusing a bomb.
If you are currently relying on Anthropic's UI for your workflow, here is the immediate reality check:
First, treat Claude Design as volatile RAM. It is not a hard drive. It is not a repo. Do your generation there, but export your artifacts and context files at the end of every single session. Do not leave work in there overnight that you aren't prepared to lose.
Second, if you plan to cancel, downgrade, or even pause your Max subscription, you need to pull everything down locally before you even navigate to the billing page. Do not assume your current billing cycle will ride out gracefully.
Third, look into setting up an API-based workflow. Whether you use CC in your terminal, Cursor, or an open-source UI hooked up to your own API keys, owning the client means you own the history. Even if Anthropic revokes an API key, your local files and chat histories remain safely on your SSD.
I’ve been heavily advocating for Anthropic’s models lately because the reasoning capabilities are genuinely top-tier. But as a product experience, this is hostile. You cannot build a tool designed for complex, long-term project work and wire it to a kill switch tied to a Stripe webhook.
Has anyone else here triggered this lockout? Did any of you manage to force a data export request through their support, or is that historical data just permanently gone? I'm genuinely curious how you all are handling backups for these cloud AI sessions, because relying on their native UI is officially a massive liability. Let’s talk about it.
Hola chicos, una pregunta, no sé si solo me pasa a mi pero he empezado a probar Claude desing para diseño de ux/ui, logos etc, cosas no tan complejas, el caso es que siempre me da unos resultados horribles, o sea yo daría un mejor resultado haciéndolo a mano, a tal punto es, además de esto los pocos tokens/peticiones que tiene (tengo que suscripción pro, se que dan poca cuota pero con claude desing me parece absurdamente poco), e incluso he estado comparandolo con géminis 3.1 pro en modo canvas y da un muchísimo mejor resultado con muchísimas peticiones/tokens para hacer cambios, re diseñar o crear desde 0, no sé si será que lo tengo mal configurado o mis prompts son demasiado básicos
tl;dr To get optimal use of Claude Design and avoid hitting the weekly limits, I never continue a conversation past the "Token Warning" limit.
For the last 2 weeks until yesterday, I was operating in this disappointing mode with Claude Design where I had a lot of UI/UX stuff I wanted to improve, and a usage budget that would tank to zero within one day. I started to think "Ok, you can do one of these big UI/UX improvements a week, then you just need to hold on the next until the usage resets next Saturday... just go work on non-UI stuff". As of today I think I have a grip on things, and I'm no longer disappointed.
I've landed on a workflow that allows me to use Claude Design without rate limiting effects kicking in. I'm on the $200 Claude Max plan. I wish I had understood this right away (maybe its in the docs... I should probably read them).
The key is in that warning message that says something like "Start a new chat to save on tokens". From my recent experience, if you keep talking in the same session after that warning appears, you are now consuming your Claude Design available usage. Before that, you weren't.
Here's the context behind how I landed on this workflow:
I started using the tool about 2 weeks ago. The first thing I did was point it at my github repo (a microSaaS I'm building... Its a fairly simple app, but the code is not a tiny/trivial amount). I forget the exact flow, but I ended up reaching a point where I had a "Design System" captured in Claude Design. This design system included various html files that showed my screens, UI palette, etc.. I'll share a screenshot of the current Design System state down below. Getting the hang of browsing the Claude Design UI, finding specific renders.etc. was tricky, but you get the hang of knowing where different html files end up.
I was impressed with what it could comprehend from my code. There was some opportunity to tweak/approve different assets which I mostly accepted as is. Then I just started talking to it about fairly significant UI/UX rework. Like "New User Onboarding", and "Critical Dashboard X". I loved what it was showing me (even if the overall UI/scaffolding is a bit janky). Those token warning messages would come up, but I'd just keep typing anyway. I guess I thought the warning was more about "Hey, things will get stupider if you keep cramming more context in"... not "Hey, from here forward you are consuming your usage.... I suggest you start a new thread to avoid this".
I was getting frustrated by how constraining this was (with the $200 Max plan, I'm never out of commission in Claude Code). I started monitoring that usage bar, prompt by prompt, and this is when I noticed the bar wasn't moving from any of my current session prompts.... at that point I realized the connection between the warning message and the Usage consumption. This was a new/fresh session. My usage wasn't changing.
Since adapting to a workflow where I avoid continuing any chats beyond that warning (I just start a new chat, explain what we were doing and what files we were working on, Claude Design resumes things just fine) my usage bar hasn't budged a single %.
Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people saying:
“Oh, Anthropic is so stupid.”
“They’re hiking up the usage limits.”
“They’re making it too expensive.”
“They’re killing their users.”
“They’re being ridiculous.”
But they’re not.
They’re actually kind of smarter than OpenAI in this specific way.
Here’s the thing.
A lot of people either weren’t paying attention, or they just didn’t hear Anthropic when they said this…
but Anthropic has said multiple times they’re trying to move more into the enterprise side of things.
So when Anthropic charges $200 for what doesn’t feel like a huge amount of tokens, everyone looks at those prices, then looks at ChatGPT, and goes:
“Why is Anthropic doing this?”
“Anthropic is stupid.”
No.
They’re charging according to their niche.
OpenAI, on the other hand, has a massive consumer user base.
They have way more mainstream usage.
They have more compute.
And it makes more sense for them to offer cheaper prices and more tokens because their audience needs that.
Well, whether they can actually afford that long-term is a different problem.
But the point is, OpenAI users are very different from Anthropic’s ideal users.
Most normal ChatGPT users are not going to pay $200 for a limited amount of tokens.
Obviously, I’m not saying OpenAI doesn’t have enterprise customers.
Of course they do.
They have developers.
They have businesses.
They have serious users.
But Anthropic is positioning itself differently.
Anthropic doesn’t have an image model.
It doesn’t have a video model.
And the reason they don’t have that is because most enterprise businesses don’t really need that as their main priority.
Sure, image and video can be useful for marketing.
But that’s not the most important thing for a lot of big enterprise companies.
The important stuff is:
Can it code?
Can it handle complex workflows?
Can it manage tasks across a small team?
Can it make decisions based on financial data?
Can it work through large amounts of business data?
Can it be trusted in serious environments?
That’s the kind of stuff big enterprise companies actually care about.
People were also surprised when Anthropic closed off Mythos to the public.
But that actually makes sense if you understand who they’re targeting.
They’re not building for little Timmy who wants to vibe code some random startup so he can finally escape his mum’s basement.
They’re building for big enterprise customers.
That’s their target.
So if you’re looking at what Anthropic is doing and thinking:
“Why would they do that?”
“That’s so stupid.”
You need to switch your frame.
Instead of looking at it like they’re trying to beat ChatGPT for normal consumers…
look at it like they’re trying to win enterprise.
Then a lot of their decisions make way more sense.
Some of you probably already knew this.
Good.
You’re smart.
But if you didn’t, look at Anthropic through that lens and then look at the OpenAI versus Anthropic rivalry again.
Because suddenly, the rivalry starts to make way more sense.
OpenAI is always laying little traps for Anthropic.
Anthropic rarely hits back.
They barely mention competitors.
They don’t really flex their customers publicly.
They come across as a much more professional, B2B company.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman is on X talking about goblin mode.
Now, to be fair…
it is funny.
And it’s good.
But it makes a lot more sense once you realise OpenAI and Anthropic are playing slightly different games.
So if you want to understand the Anthropic versus OpenAI rivalry properly, you need to watch what happens in the news.
Because there’s going to be a lot of AI news this week.
Especially on Thursday.
I’ve heard something is dropping from OpenAI.
And if you want more news on that, head to my newsletter below in the comments.
I talk about this stuff every week.
Last weekend, I dropped something about the AI safety sector that not many people are talking about, and it opened a lot of people’s eyes about the OpenAI and Anthropic situation.
So check it out.
Have a look.
Tell me what you think.
And wait till Monday.
We’ve got something great dropping.
Look out for that.
Hi Everyone! I have hit my weekly limit with Claude Design while working on a project. If I purchase tokens (no card on file yet), can I allocate tokens to design, or do I have to wait till next week?
Anybody here got the same issue and fixed it? Claude design is working on my laptop but not on my desktop computer. I have the max plan.
Good morning.
I’d like to introduce the app I built using Claude.
I’m from Poland and have been using Claude for about a year now.
Ever since Claude Design was released, everything has changed. We developers don’t know much about design, but Claude Design has helped me improve my app by about five times.
The app is called PhotoClean and helps you quickly delete photos
It helped me clear 15 GB of videos in 5 minutes.
If you’d like to try it, here it is:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobile.pablo.swipr
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photoclean-duplicate-photos/id6756620076
App is completly free , no ads
In future version I will add
- blurry photos finder
- compress photo & videos
Does anyone know of any AI tools or technology that can take an existing image/photo and recreate it in a much higher resolution or definition without making it look fake or overly AI-generated?
I have a design/image that I’d like to keep almost identical, but I need it recreated in print-quality resolution. Ideally something that can preserve the original layout, fonts, textures, and overall look while sharpening and enhancing the quality.
If you use ChatGPT daily you probably have 5-10 prompts you type constantly.
I got tired of it so I built SlashSlash.
Type // anywhere in ChatGPT → a searchable picker appears → press Enter → prompt inserted. No mouse, no copy-paste.
Free on the Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/slashslash-%E2%80%93-instant-prom/kkmhnfcoapjcmjkbbafifkkoepndgkem
Works on Claude too if you use both.
