Figma still wins on speed of iteration without LLM calls
βAnd I have to say this is where Figma really wins, just your ability to drag things, change things, change the font without having to wait for an LLM call, without having to top up your credits. Immediately, there does not need to be a model in the loop. I think we underestimate how nice that is from a speed of iteration perspective when you're building and designing things.β
A photo-based color analysis could replace a paid stylist
βAnd then finally, one last fun use case that just finished finished over here, which is taking my image and doing my color analysis for for the boys in the room. This is something that the ladies often do to figure out what colors look best on what they're wearing. So if you're looking for a fun Mother's Day gift out there, take a photo of your lady, one where she's looking good, and throw it in here and ask for her color analysis and then buy that person some jewelry.β
GPT Images 2.0 finally nails typography and layout
βWe looked at the new GPT model, GPT image two. Two things I think it's really, really good at, layout and typography. It has really nailed those things and has also just up leveled the quality of design because this is the first image model that really does some thinking.β
Hitting Claude limits forced a $200 top-up mid-demo
βOkay. BRB. The number one problem we all have with anthropic products is there's too many limits. I immediately hit my limit. I've only done about two or three things in claud design, and I am blocked until Saturday. And it is Tuesday. So I went and paid my Claude chits to the anthropic gods. Let's see if it'll let me try again. Yes. $200 later. We are back.β
Claude Design wins at marketing landing pages, slides, and creative redesigns
βSo those are my three plot design use cases. Import your design system and create a new, more marketing style landing page. Use content plus your design system to create really, really beautiful slides, and then go ham on an ugly redesign of your website, or ugly or beautiful, depending on what you think.β
βAnd then here's another really cool function of claw design. It gives you variations, which as somebody who has spent so much time in AD testing in her career, I think is so fun. And I think this is really smart from a design tool perspective because often, those cycles of no, make it better or or make it different can be very slow, and most people coming to claw design probably don't have the ability to articulate exactly the changes they make. So it's really smart to put three separate ideas in front of the consumers of claw design and let you pick what you like.β
Removing the design system unlocks Claude's wildest creative work
βAnd then my final very important claw design use case, gets very fun to imagine crazy versions of your web experience or website. When you give Claude Design no design system, it does the best. So I asked Claude to make a nineties Geocities style version of the Lenny's newsletter homepage. It did that. It is called Lenny's product ZO loan, and it is pretty incredible. And even the tweaks component that we had that was so nice in the polished landing page version is now real ugly. I'm going with bricks. I'm going with Comic Sans, of course, and I want all the things.β
βSo I loaded up some images from Midjourney here that I think we use more in our brand kit, and I say, that's not really us. Here are some reference images. Update the brand kit. Oh my gosh. I actually really love it. It makes me so happy. As you can see, it took in this, like, sort of pixelated landscape y images that we've been using for chat PRD. It is certainly more pink, and it has given me kind of a new idea of what we could do with this brand kit.β