Anthropic Launches Claude Design: Prompt-to-Prototype Tool Directly Challenges Figma, Adobe, and Canva

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Anthropic shipped Claude Design on April 17, a standalone product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that generates interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral from natural language prompts. It ingests a team's existing design system — reading codebases and design files — and applies brand-consistent colors, typography, and components automatically. Exports to PDF, PPTX, standalone HTML, Canva, or Claude Code for production handoff. This marks Anthropic's most aggressive expansion from AI lab into the application layer, directly competing with Figma's core prototyping business.