Codex Community — Claude Design Crash Course for Beginners

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Claude Design is the latest method to create website design prototypes and clickable user interfaces, slide decks like powerpoints and animations. In this video I’m going to do a quick crash course on how to get started using Claude Design. We will explore how claude design works as a beginner from scratch, as well as how to make wireframes, designs, animations and connect tools like MCP.

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00:00 - Claude Design Crash Course 00:27 - Overview of Claude Design Features 00:47 - Prototype - Creating a Web Design using High Fidelity with Text 01:42 - Prototype - Accessing Claude Design Code 01:52 - Prototype - Make Changes or Tweeks for your Design 02:50 - Design System - Creating a Design System 03:23 - Design System - Customising your Design System 04:25 - Using Design System to Prototype a Website Design 04:45 - Connecting MCP Tools to Claude Design (Zapier) 05:54 - Using Design System to Prototype Web Design 06:23 - Wireframe - Create a web design with a sketch 07:14 - Slide Deck - Creating a Powerpoint like Slide Decks 07:58 - Animations - Motion Design using timeline like video

There are lots of interesting ways to use Claude Design for creating your next idea, whether that be for an app, website or even for your own small business. If there are specific web design questions you have about this new tool, let me know!

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Let’s learn how to use Cloud Design. We’ll start with creating a simple web design. This will get you started on the fundamentals. After this, we’ll move to design systems where you get to see how to set up a brand, color themes, and styles. From there, we’ll use the design system to create a high-quality website. Finally, I’ll show you some other tips and tricks with Cloud Design such as creating wireframes, slides for PowerPoint presentations, as well as connecting up things like MCP tools to get the most out of it. Let’s begin. To access Cloud Design, in your sidebar under products, select the design button. This takes us to our dashboard. On the left, we can create prototypes for things like web designs, slide decks, and templates. And on the right, we have recent designs, examples, and design systems, which allow us to create predefined styles for our designs. Let’s start simple and work our way up. We’ll create a new prototype here. I’ll select high-fidelity and click create. This takes us to the main project dashboard, where we have a chat interface on the left as well as the design files and later the design on the right-hand side. Here’s my first prompt to create a portfolio design for myself. This takes us to the second part of the process, where we answer a few questions about the direction of the design itself. These include things like the overall design aesthetic, what’s the main job of the design, what things should be included or not included, and its format. Once done, we can select continue and head to the next part of the process. This part can take a while, maybe 5 to 10 minutes, so let’s skip to it being complete. And here it is. This web design is something we can now scroll through, but what’s really cool is that it’s created multiple variations, and this works kind of like a Figma file, where I can zoom out of the canvas and see all the different types that have been put together. Additionally, on the top here, we have the design files. This is all the code, so if at any point in time you want to open this up, or copy this out into your own project, you can do that, too. In the design file itself, we have these options here at the top to markdown, edit, show tweaks, and comments. Let’s start off by taking a look at the tweaks we can make to this design. I can toggle the different types of variations that are displayed, the accent color, as well as a couple of other little options based on the project itself. Outside of tweaks, I can also select the edit button. This will allow me to change more of the project settings itself across the entire page. So, things like the background, the font size, as well as the base size. But, for the most part, people should use the markup button. This allows you to select elements on the page and then describe how you would like them modified, changed, or updated. So, here for example, I’ll select the hero section and ask it to center it as well as improve the text itself. After thinking a little bit, Claude design came back with this over here. Then, I can keep doing this over and over until I have a design that I’m pretty happy with. So, these are the basics, but now let’s take it one step further and start using proper design systems. On the main dashboard, head to the design systems tab. On the file right here, we can create a brand new design system. For the example, I’ll recreate my local coffee shop, which is Herbie Cafe. This next part lets you use some examples to create your design system, such as code on GitHub, maybe some files from your computer, maybe even a Figma file, or just some bare-bones fonts or logo assets, which I actually have. With all that done, on the top right, select continue to generate and generate design. Wait 5 to 10 minutes and you’ll get something like this. Here is our design system, and it’s a draft. So, let’s review to see what’s happened. You can see that based on the assets I provided earlier, it’s created a style guide with fonts

Chapters

• 00:00 — Claude Design Crash Course
• 00:27 — Overview of Claude Design Features
• 00:47 — Prototype - Creating a Web Design using High Fidelity with Text
• 01:42 — Prototype - Accessing Claude Design Code
• 01:52 — Prototype - Make Changes or Tweeks for your Design
• 02:50 — Design System - Creating a Design System
• 03:23 — Design System - Customising your Design System
• 04:25 — Using Design System to Prototype a Website Design
• 04:45 — Connecting MCP Tools to Claude Design (Zapier)
• 05:54 — Using Design System to Prototype Web Design
• 06:23 — Wireframe - Create a web design with a sketch
• 07:14 — Slide Deck - Creating a Powerpoint like Slide Decks
• 07:58 — Animations - Motion Design using timeline like video