Claude Design blew my mind

18 Apr 2026 · 1 h · 32 chapters

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In short

A live walkthrough of Claude Design (claw.ai/design) showing how to turn an app idea into wireframes, hi-fi designs, a Sequoia-style pitch deck, and a short ad video—while highlighting real failures (errors, token limits, task conflicts).

Guest backgrounds

No formal guests. The “guests” are live chat participants who comment (e.g., Dan with debugging tips; Matt voting on direction A; Steve Katz suggesting an alternative for hyper-realistic video).

Key claims

Claude Design’s wireframe questionnaire is unusually strong and “agency-like” (produces A/B/C directions). It can generate decks and visual designs quickly. However, it’s unreliable: it breaks, can’t reliably run multiple tasks at once, may burn tokens, and video output is mediocre compared with alternatives (e.g., eversince.ai).

Notable examples

“Senior Brains” app for seniors (brain workouts, caregiver cheering, streaks/XP, memory match, progress). The presenter votes direction A, then generates hi-fi screens and adds a “Share this win on Facebook” button. A VC deck is generated for raising $2M from Sequoia Capital, and a 30-second ad is produced but criticized as not “slapping.”

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Chapters

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Exploring Claude Design Together

0:46 to 2:54

Discussion about the purpose and structure of the live demo on Claude Design.

“And I figure we just go through it together.”

Idea Generation for Senior Brains App

2:55 to 4:59

Generating ideas for a cognitive exercise app tailored for seniors.

“Or can I use Claude to create a design system?”

Creating Wireframes for App Design

5:00 to 9:23

Steps and considerations for creating wireframes using Claude Design.

“So this is basically just a brief description of an idea.”

First Impressions of Wireframe Outputs

9:24 to 14:01

Analyzing the output from Claude Design and discussing its potential.

“But if it doesn't, we're learning together, right?”

Exploring a New App Concept

14:01 to 14:44

The discussion begins by analyzing the mascot and onboarding experience of a new app.

“It's safe, it's familiar, it's Duolingo, it's adjacent, but it's calmer.”

Engagement Features and Feedback

14:44 to 16:46

The hosts discuss various features of the app and invite listener feedback.

“Matt in the comment says, after it builds, you'll see the pencil in the top right and you'll be able to draw in the build.”

Creative Development Challenges

16:46 to 18:56

A discussion on creating appealing designs and the challenges faced during development.

“Do you think A, B, or C is going to put in the chat A, B, or C?”

Technical Difficulties in Real Time

18:56 to 19:42

Live debugging issues are showcased, highlighting real-time problem-solving.

“So I find that that's helpful just to challenge any LLM, giving it references.”

Creating a Venture Capital Pitch Deck

19:42 to 22:31

The hosts work on crafting a presentation deck for raising venture capital.

“And I'm going to say, let's see if I can copy it again.”

Learning Together Through Live Feedback

22:31 to 23:42

The conversation emphasizes the value of collaborative learning and community input.

“Okay, deck is desestetic, sequoia style.”
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Opportunities for Older Adults

23:42 to 28:00

The hosts reflect on the potential market for apps designed for seniors, underscoring a significant business opportunity.

“So we're going to let this do its thing.”

Community Engagement and Ideas

28:00 to 28:34

Learn how audience interaction can inspire new startup ideas.

“Greg Hanschen, go Greg, just dropping in to tell you you rock.”

Identifying Opportunities for Seniors

28:34 to 29:37

Discover the market potential for apps catering to older adults.

“and someone should steal this idea and make the lives of our seniors happier and healthier, which I think is a really, really big opportunity.”

Challenges in Multitasking During Presentations

29:37 to 30:28

Understand the difficulties of multitasking while presenting information.

“We're trying to run two tasks at the same time.”

Introduction to Senior Brains

30:28 to 31:29

Explore the concept of a brain health company for seniors.

“There's no stop button, which is interesting.”

The Unmet Health Needs of Seniors

31:29 to 32:04

Learn about the critical need for better options for cognitive health.

“One in three Americans over 65 will develop content in decline.”

Product Features and Evidence

32:04 to 32:56

Dive into the features of a new cognitive training product for seniors.

“Three landmark trials turn cognitive training from wellness into standard of care.”

Market Strategy Insights

32:56 to 33:38

Understand the strategic approach to market a product to seniors.

“The daughter sees a meta ad, the gift that keeps mom sharp.”

Building a Compelling Presentation Deck

33:38 to 34:26

Learn tips for creating effective presentation decks.

“I don't have the number one tech pod on Spotify.”

Designing User Experience for Seniors

34:26 to 35:38

Explore the considerations for designing user experiences for older adults.

“I think we figured out that you can't do multiple at the same time too.”

Cloud Design Essentials

35:38 to 36:58

Gain insights into essential knowledge for effective cloud design.

Feedback and Iteration in Design

36:58 to 38:02

Learn the importance of feedback in the design process.

“Bean is asking, what would you like to get a little sharper at?”

Engagement Strategies for Social Products

38:02 to 40:01

Discover engagement strategies that enhance user interaction.

“So now let's see how we could, okay, let's try to make this better.”

Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

40:46 to 42:09

Conclude with thoughts on the project and invitation for further collaboration.

“So we're going to go Senior Brains Video.”

Exploring Senior Brains and Project Navigation

42:09 to 43:52

Learn about navigating the Senior Brains project and the challenges faced.

“In before Senior Frog's copyright claim.”

Reflections on Claude Design and Questionnaires

43:52 to 46:26

Discover the importance of questionnaires in refining project ideas through Claude Design.

“I've got a solid read on the design system now.”

Value and Limitations of Claude Design

46:26 to 48:55

Examine the perceived value of Claude Design and its usage limitations.

“and yeah, that's all I can say about that.”

Creative Feedback on Video Advertising

48:55 to 51:06

Understand the creative process behind crafting video advertisements with Claude Design.

“through it funny warm tone with visual gags okay oh okay mom have you seen my glasses every Tuesday.”

Experiencing Claude Design's Features

53:21 to 56:00

Explore the capabilities of Claude Design and the excitement of its features.

“It's so thick that I can't even get it out.”

Initial Reactions to Claude Design

56:00 to 56:39

The hosts share their live reactions to the features of Claude Design.

“yeah I feel like there's no way that this is going to be as good as that there's no way I would go and download the files here you know what we can do we can export this oh my god here we go Oh my God.”

Exploring Claude Design Capabilities

56:40 to 58:18

Discussion on the various functionalities of Claude Design and their effectiveness.

“I don't even know how to get back to it.”

Final Impressions and Recommendations

58:19 to 59:38

Hosts share their concluding thoughts on Claude Design and its potential uses.

“My final impression of Claude design is that you should try it and get your hands dirty.”
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Transcript

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0:00Let's try Claude Design together.

0:30live streams, more trying products in real time, like and comment below. I had a lot of fun, but if you're not having fun with me, then I'm not going to do it. So let me know and I'll see you in there. Enjoy.

0:50And we are live and we're going to be talking about, actually, we're not going to be talking about it we're gonna go through clode design clod design we're gonna go through it together because it's the weekend because you know it's a good product and we're gonna see how good it is i have no affiliation with it but we're gonna go through it together and uh we're just gonna yeah we're gonna see uh what we think so yeah a lot of people been asking me, Greg, what do you think of Claude Design? Is it good? I know it's in Reeshaar's preview. And I figure we just go through it together. I figure we go through together.

1:34Together, it's the weekend and I'll just do a live, right? Let's do a live and see what people think. So I got the comment section open. So I want to, you know, let me know what you think. What's good, Gene? Not much. Let's get it. Yo, how do you pull it up? You go to claw.ai slash design and you can pull it up. And together, we're going to go through it. We're going to try to create a video. We're going to try to create a slide deck. We're going to go and create a website. We'll create an app. I don't know where this is going to go. But by the end of this, we're going to know if claw design is worth our time, how to use it.

2:12I'm going to make some mistakes. You're going to make some mistakes. and through that we're going to come out the other side knowing how to use this tool. The only way to know is to get your hands dirty. So that's what this is about. I was on YouTube before and I was seeing some YouTube tutorials and they just they didn't feel authentic to me. They didn't feel real to me. So what this episode, this live episode is going to be, is going to be me being real about what Claude Design is, how it works, we're going to go through it together and it's just a live demo. It's a live demo so stuff is going to go wrong and we're going to see it together.

2:53So welcome everyone. Let's get right into it. So first thing I'm noticing is you can create a new prototype, you can create a new slide deck, you can start from a template which is pretty cool right so you can start from like an animation like a time time timeline based motion design or you can set up a design system so you can create a design system so anyone could create a good looking design asset i might want to try this later this is interesting to me because i want to know you know if i have a design system in figma can i just import it in here and works? Or can I use Claude to create a design system?

3:38Say I like the design system Apple, can I pull that into here and just get going? So let's just say we want to create a new project. So I need an idea. So I'll just grab an idea from ideabrowser.com. And I'm going to pick an idea that I think is interesting that I would actually go and build. So I'm going to filter it, let's say, by a mobile app. And okay, so engaging brain app, engaging brain exercises app for seniors. So cognitive decline robs seniors of independence. This platform automatically adjusts difficulty based on performance. Basically personalized brain workouts for seniors. This is probably an interesting idea, probably would do well.

4:32And let's see what it would look like. We'll just call it Senior Brains. And let's just ask it to create a wireframe first. So it's going to ask us, start with context. Designs grounded in a real context turn out better. So we can add a screenshot, add a code base, drag a Figma file, a design system. I'm literally just going to screenshot this and I'm going to see what it comes up with. So this is basically just a brief description of an idea. We're just going to throw it in here. I'm going to say, hey, this is an app idea I think is good. I'm inspired by gamified apps like Duolingo.

5:24And the BrainRot app, which has a mascot and feels just fun to use. Can you make a wireframe that is clear, clean, based on this idea? Yeah. So why do I want to create a wireframe first? Because I don't want to waste tokens, number one. I know that if I just go and one-shot it, I'm going to just end up spending a ton of tokens. And I know it's going to sound like the tutorials out there are just one-shotting websites. And if I was actually trying to build a business, I would start with the wireframe because that's going to help me figure out what features do I want. and it's going to help me just like create constraints for a product that I think would work.

6:30So it says, what's the primary device to wireframe? So iPhone. So by the way, this is for those who use Claude, this is basically the ask user question that they built in here. So this is really cool. Duolingo's owl is pushy and cute. Brain rot is chaotic. What feels right for seniors? I think gentle, silly, fun, but calm, never frantic. which screens to wireframe. I'm going to say daily home, onboarding, rewards, and progress and stacks. Wow, this is cool. How many distinct directions? Each direction explores a different take on land and field. I'm going to say three. By the way, this is kind of confusing, this slider, but we made it.

7:16Which gamification elements, daily streaks, XP points. So by the way, just like my first reaction to this is I'm blown away by how good these questions are. I don't know about you. I'm looking at the chat.

7:33Let me know what you think of these questions. Okay, baseline is large text and high contrast. What else? So that's, again, it knows it's designing for seniors. Voice narration controls would be really cool. Simplified mode toggle would be really cool. High contrast mode would be really I want to add that. Then it says exercise types to mock, memory match, recall, pattern and sequence. Yes. Visual tone of the wireframes. So my belief is mid-fi wireframes are bad. I think that you want to start with low-fi or go high-fi. You can't be half pregnant. You don't want to go mid-fi. So I'm going to suggest I'm going to go lowest fidelity.

8:15I suggest you do the same. How prominent is the family caregiver in the main app? This is crazy. The fact that it figured all this stuff out is absolutely insane. How prominent? Well, I'm going to say senior first, but family cheer on is visible. That's a really cool idea. I don't know if that picked that up from Idea Browser. Maybe it did. But that's really, really smart. Okay, product name to use in mocks. Do you like senior brains? Do you like mind mentality? Do you not care yet? What do you think? People in the chat, let me know. I'm going to put senior brains for now. What tweaks would you like to toggle?

8:53Switch between directions, toggle mask off, mask on and off? No, we're going to do swap exercise type in session mode. And anything else? No, I think we can go ahead. So let's see. I was impressed with the questionnaire. I felt like it did a good job at looking at what the idea was and extrapolating from there like a product manager. That was actually quite good. But will it create great wireframes? We'll see.

9:27And I hope it does. I hope it does. But if it doesn't, we're learning together, right? I'm going to take a sip of my coffee.

9:39So what's happening right here? It says, Let me build three distinct phone wireframe directions for senior brains. Pure black and white sketchy with a gentle silly mascot. Focus on onboarding, daily home, session results and progress. So if we're able to create an app here that is well designed and we can actually build it using cloud code or you're not going to be able to build it with cloud design obviously. This is just designs. But if you can actually build that, I could see how this could be a$5,$10,$15 million ARR business on top of it. You start with Instagram Reels and you probably focus on Facebook.

10:23The seniors are on Facebook.

10:28So I think that there's opportunity here and this would be a business that I would want to create. So this is cool. Well, there's a tip at the bottom. It says the napkin sketch tool lets you draw freehand, which is great for rough layouts. So I don't know where that is. If anyone can tell me where that is in the chat, please let me know. But that's really cool. I wonder if you can use this on iPad. Because I've got an iPad right here with a pencil. And if I can just sort of draw, because I feel like drawing with a mouse, not so easy. But if I can draw with an iPad, That would be really cool.

11:11Let's see what's going on here. Okay, so the progress. So setup file in iOS frame. There's direction A, which is warm and friendly. Direction B, which is mascot forward. And direction C, which is calendar ritual first. This is really cool because if you were going to go work with an agency, they would probably give you three different directions. They would probably give you something like this where they give you direction. I'm a co-founder of an agency that works with the largest companies on the planet building AI apps. We do do things like direction A, direction B, direction C with stories on each.

11:51I do like that it has that agency feel. This is just my first impressions. You're getting my first impressions. it gives you that agency feel. But as of now, I haven't spent one cent on a token. At some point during this live, during this video, we might run out of tokens. I don't know when that's going to be. But from people on X, people are saying that's like 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. So we'll see. Let's see what it is. So I'm just going to refresh here. So it's not ready yet. Here you can see the components. So it's starting to come up. Direction A, it's still working on it. So we'll let it cook for a little more.

12:38You can see that it's building the JSX with all three directions and the screens. I do like that it... I'll go zoom in a little more. I like this useful info stuff. Just these tips here, right? Because let's be real. When you're waiting for your LLM to cook, it's kind of boring, right? And you might just go and... open up X or you might go and open up Instagram or you might just be on TikTok or whatever. But you want to stay locked in, right? You want to stay locked in. So you want to use this time to do something related to what you're doing, right? So if I'm cooking on the wireframes for this, maybe I'm going back to Idea Browser and I'm looking at the trends, right?

13:24What the revenue potential is. I'm looking at different ideas for the offer. I'm looking at what do people say about this on Reddit and what's the analysis there and what are the different subreddits. This is easy for me to say, but I would say try to focus as much as you can on actually focus on your task at hand. Okay, so we have three directions and direction A is the warm stack. So it's a card-based home with one clear action. The mascot's a small sidekick, not the star. It's safe, it's familiar, it's Duolingo, it's adjacent, but it's calmer. So I think that looks pretty good. The onboarding at first open, hello there, I'm Bean, I'll keep you company during your brain workouts.

14:17You got your profiles here, Ruth, Grandma, you can skip. And then you've got your direction C, calendar habit first home shows today's path as a single scroll so it's less gamey more morning coffee and crossword vibe that's kind of cool so when do you want your daily workout you pick a time that's easy um how long looks good i mean i don't know what you all think put in the uh in the comments what you think um but uh they're all really interesting they all are really interesting Matt in the comment says, after it builds, you'll see the pencil in the top right and you'll be able to draw in the build.

15:01So that's really cool. I didn't know that. Now it's showing, okay, we're going to go through the warm stack direction. So it's now given the daily home for the warm stack. So you can see here's today's workout, a 12-day streak from your family. I mean, this is really cool. This is really, really cool. This is really well done. Yeah, this is really well done. The direction B, which is basically like the chat base, mascot is the navigator. So it says, Morning Ruth, I thought we'd try a memory match today. Short and sweet, are you ready? Yes, let's go. Try something else. So you go, yes, let's go.

15:49And you can see, this is really cool. cheering you on. So this is like your family cheering you on, sending you hearts. Think about it as like you're doing a live stream and people are clicking like, like, like, like or they're commenting. That is that equivalent. So I think that's really, really cool. That was your best memory match yet. You got 11 on 12. And then you've got this journal where you can see you showed up five or seven days. Your word recall is getting quicker, about 20 % faster than last month. So a little win. I think awesome. Let's go to the third one. The calendar habit first.

16:29The home shows today's path as a single score, less gamey, more morning coffee and crossword vibes. The home looks like a calendar basically. In the beginning, you do the easy words, then you do the memory match. It's kind of cool because you're progressing. You feel the progression. I really like this quote here take it easy there's no hurry Bean as the mascot is really cool like we were talking about the Claude quick tips here if that Claude quick tips was a mascot I probably would like it even more session results I do like how gamified this is it kind of reminds me of this but I don't know for some reason this feels a little bit better and then it's got the progress over here so my question to the chat is A, B, or C what do you think would work the most?

17:19Do you think A, B, or C is going to put in the chat A, B, or C? And we'll pick that one and then we'll ask it to make it beautiful. So I'll wait a few seconds and see what the chat says.

17:40So I don't see any people. We got some votes for A. It's pretty cool. I'll give it another 30 seconds. We like some A's. Okay, we got A's. We're going to move forward with A. Thanks, chat. I want to move forward with A.

18:11now I want you to do a high five version of this you need to be a creative director here I want you to research brain rot app and apps like it and Duolingo and apps like it and make something familiar but fresh. Something that the CPO of BrainRot or Duolingo would be like, this is amazing. So I find that that's helpful just to challenge any LLM, giving it references. Look, it broke. It broke. Look what we got here. We got an error. Not working. Could you believe this? And this is why I'm doing this live stream. Because when you go on YouTube and you see tutorials about this is insane, This product's insane.

19:31And I've been guilty of this too. Sometimes you don't put this in. You don't put the errors in. This gets edited out. So this is the real deal and that's why we're doing this. I'm going to refresh. And I'm going to say, let's see if I can copy it again. We're going to copy it. We're going to hit send.

19:55And it seems like it's working. Nope. It's not working. So let's see how to... So it automatically retries, which is interesting. Automatically retries. So here's the debug info. So let's ask it to debug it.

20:17And see what happens. So some people are like, am I out of tokens? So let's go and see if I'm out of tokens. I mean, I think it would say something if I was out of tokens. So I don't think it's that. This is cool, by the way. The fact that you can have different projects here. So I've got this here and I can go and create another project if I wanted. If I wanted to create like, let's just do this for fun. Senior brains funding stuff. If I wanted to basically grab this, I'm going to grab this. We're going to basically create a deck. While we're waiting for the debugging, we're going to create a deck to raise venture capital.

21:12And we're going to see if it's able to do this. Hey, I want you to make a VC style deck that'll allow me to raise$2 million from Sequoia Capital. And let's see what it does there.

21:39People are saying it burns through tokens. So we'll just let that cook over here. Now we have two folders. We have our Senior Brains. Here's the product.

21:52Let's go back into here. Senior Brains Funding. so what's the product name senior brains how long is the pitch five minutes we've got we've got a prototype let's say we've got MVP no launch yet let's say MVP or just say seed there we go not launched who's on the team Greg Eisenberg

22:28building out the product and meta ads. Okay, deck is desestetic, sequoia style. Yes. Actually, warm and human. Color direction. This is cool that you can just pick a direction up here. I like short topic styles. Full scripts. That's cool. Variations. Commit to one deck And then let's do how clinical should it feel? Consumer feel, I would say, with credibility.

23:06Okay, so I'm going to click continue.

23:16All right, so this is going to go ahead and cook. I'm seeing some interesting comments. And so Dan says in Co-Work, you can navigate to the top left where it reads dispatch and click the arrow pointing down and clear the background task. And that works for me. So that could help with debugging. It's another reason why I like doing these lives, right? Because it's not just me learning, it's us learning together and we're all sort of sharing tips and tricks together.

23:51So we're going to let this do its thing. And let's go see if this is still... Hey, can you just do version... Or let's just do a simple ask. Can you do direction A? Or is it still just absolutely cooked?

24:16Absolutely cooked. like are you good are you good

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24:27are you good okay so you want should we try in co-work this this what dan says navigate here i'm gonna put this over here so people can see in co-work okay we're gonna do this together

24:46I'm going to pull my this is not easy to do live but I will try

24:54okay in co-work

25:00we top left where it reads dispatch yeah click the arrow pointing down click the arrow pointing down I don't see an arrow pointing down I don't see the hour pointing down. Could be hour pointing down and clear background tasks. I guess I don't have background tasks on Cowork. So not sure what you mean by that. At least on this account. Oh, he says I don't know if it works. Fair enough, fair enough. I appreciate you. All right, so let's go back to the deck stage. Sorry, the deck that we're creating. It seems like it's creating speakers notes, which is really cool, right? So if you're creating a business, you found an idea, maybe it's Idea Browser, maybe you just came up with an idea and you just want a first draft, it's cool that you can get a script.

26:08And is it good? We will see.

26:13And let's see. Uploads. Okay, so I think it's still doing its thing. Still doing its thing. Are you still working on this?

26:34Let's see. Yeah, it seems like it's still working on this. It is still working on this. Okay, while it's doing that, let's go see how the product's doing.

26:49Hey, can you turn direction A into hi-fi designs? So I have one more idea. If this doesn't work, what we'll have to do is we'll just export it and we'll create a new session. And then we'll just say go with A. but it seems like it's working. So let me do the research and then build. I'll look into Duolingo and BrainRide's design language to ground the hi-fi direction. So I guess the lesson here is it's going to break sometimes and you just got to keep going. It's going to break sometimes and you just got to keep going but I'm pretty excited about this idea. I don't know about you. I think someone should build it.

27:38But I could just see this working. I like how simple it is. I like the mission. I like the mission a lot.

27:52So I'm pretty impressed. Despite Claude Design breaking on me a few times, so far I'm impressed.

28:05So far I'm impressed. By the way, I see the comments. Greg Hanschen, go Greg, just dropping in to tell you you rock. Thank you. I appreciate that. A LinkedIn user, don't know who you are, what your name is. You're anonymous, but thanks for showing the process. I have to go, but later we'll check the YouTube video, cook stuff and keep it coming. All right. We'll do. Ronnie Parsons, how's it going? Nice one, Greg. Let's go. Someone could steal this idea and someone should steal this idea and make the lives of our seniors happier and healthier, which I think is a really, really big opportunity. So many people are creating apps for Gen Z, even millennials.

28:53But there's just so much opportunity for older adults. They're so underserved as an audience and I just think, hey, if we're lucky we have grandparents

29:05and why not create apps for them? So let's go while this is cooking. Let's see if our deck is done. Are you still working on this? It just doesn't respond.

29:25Let's just say, where's my deck? Where's my deck? I don't know if you can run two tasks at the same time, by the way. This is what we're trying. We're trying to run two tasks at the same time. And I don't think you can, right? Because it freezes up. So that's something I'm learning. You probably can't create two tasks at the same time. So I'd recommend just focusing, oh wow, yes. So that's what happened. That's really interesting. I pressed the task in the funding thing and this just stopped. And I'm going to say, so we don't want that. Hey, I'm just going to re-say it again. So another lesson here.

30:11They should say that, right? They should say focus on one task at a time. Because how are we supposed to know? How are we supposed to know? How are we supposed to know? It's impossible to know. It's impossible to know. So I'm going to see if I can just... There's no stop button, which is interesting. It just... Oh, well, it did the deck. Okay, so it did the deck. Keeping 58 million minds sharp for longer. Let's see if we like this. Wow. Hi, I'm Greg Eisenberg. Over the last decades, I've built and sold internet businesses. I've advised Reddit and TikTok, and I've spent a lot of time studying where demographics, tailwinds, meets software.

30:58The one I keep coming back to is this. There are 58 million Americans over 65.

31:08There are over 58 million Americans over 65, and almost none of the software they use was built for them. I'm here today to talk to you about Senior Brains, the first consumer brain health company built specifically for the aging brain. We're raising$2 million to launch and prove that seniors will pay and pay well and to keep their minds sharp. I'd love Sequoia to lead it. One in three Americans over 65 will develop content in decline. This is dope. Today, seniors choose between toys or a six-month wait at a memory clinic. Mic drop. That goes hard. Option A, you play brain games built for communities, not seniors, cluttered, thin clinical evidence.

31:50Option B, that's cool, by the way, that this deck is just kind of over here. option b is a memory clinic neurologist academic center six-month wait time 400 out of pocket diagnostics not a practice i mean come on this is really cool every uh what we're building 15 minutes every morning for the rest of your life more calm than clinic more noon than lumosity the daily practice america's aging population has been asking their doctor for and no one has built it. No one has built it. And here it is. Wow, it actually did like a mid-fi. It did a mid-fi. So the daily coach, the circle. And it gives the product features.

32:40The science just crossed the line. Three landmark trials turn cognitive training from wellness into standard of care. Wow, this is really good. So it actually did the research around scientific backing. Wow. The wealthiest generation in history is aging into the largest unmet health need of their lives. The adult child is the buyer. Mom is the user. This is really good. The daughter sees a meta ad, the gift that keeps mom sharp. They buy the annual gift. Wow. 228. Mom on boards with her coach. And then look at that. Your blended CAC$62, your year one LTV$228, and your payback is 3.3 months. LTV CAC$3.7.

33:28Start consumer and grow into medical advantage. Wow. And then you sell into senior living. That's unbelievable. We're pre-launch, not pre-product.

33:44This is me. I don't have the number one tech pod on Spotify. The Startup Ideas podcast is not the number one, but it's the number one in my heart. And maybe yours too. This is probably the best deck I have ever seen created by any LLM, period. Period. The idea browser to claw design flow for a deck is unbelievable. This is unbelievable. Let's go back to see if it's any good at visual design. Or is it just going to stall? But I think we figured it out, right? It did give us a couple bugs. Oh wow, it's already built it. I think we figured out that you can't do multiple at the same time too. So okay, where are my screens, my friend?

34:42Oh, here's my high fives. Are these my high fives? Probably. Nope. Okay, not there. Oh, here's my high fives. Okay. So direction A, let's see if we like this. senior brains the daily brain walk gamification with hep familiar enough to feel instantly legible streak xp level and mascot but warmer okay just show me show me the product like where is the product

35:25like why is it not just showing me the product right i don't is is this it is this is this it

35:35I don't see I don't see where it is someone in the chat let me know what where you think I should go here

35:51someone in the chat let me know where you think I've opened the hi-fi it should be visible now scroll horizontally

35:59scroll horizontally it says I don't see it I'm going to say I can't scroll horizontally show it to me vertically

36:15click present in the top right let's see full screen okay it's presented but there's nothing it's not doing anything so that didn't work thank you though interrupted by an error I think because I I can't see it in this format give me another format

36:44this is the stuff that people actually need to know If you want to get good at cloud design, you actually have to know these little things. And I know it's boring. I know it's boring. There we go. So here we go. Onboarding. So Bean introduces itself on step one. Here's the question. Big tap targets. One idea per screen. Cheerful illustrated chips. Bean is asking, what would you like to get a little sharper at? Remembering words or names. Focusing and paying attention. Quick thinking. A bit of everything. you've got your daily home I think this looks really good I think this looks really good from your family this social feature is just too good it's cool you can scroll down too you got your session results I think this is missing share this on Facebook for this audience I think that would be really cool TBD and then your progress current streak this week.

37:50I mean, this is beautiful. This is beautiful. This is really cool. This is, I don't know about you, but this exceeded my expectations. So now let's see how we could, okay, let's try to make this better. So let's try this drawing thing. So I'm going to say, or type anywhere to add a note. I'm going to say, I'm going to make this here. Actually, not over here. Basically, I want to add the share diagram. So I'm going to say,

38:35over here I want a button, right? I'm going to say, tap anywhere. I'm going to say, make a button somewhere somewhere in the bottom or wherever conversion would be highest that says share to Facebook. And now we're going to see how this works and if Claude Design is able to take that feedback. and there's similar features on other vibe coding type tools. I know Google Stitch has a similar feature and others.

39:25So this is something I like. This is something I like to do. Let's see if that worked. Pretty nice. I will say that's not the default Facebook icon but share this win on Facebook, the copy is really good. I didn't tell it to say share this win but I know as someone who's built social products that millions of people have used that if you say share this win versus share this on Facebook, share this win is going to convert a lot more. And what does that mean tactically? That means that you're going to get more customers. So I like this. I like this a lot. I'm impressed. So I can end this stream here.

40:11I can end this stream here doing slides and a wireframe and design. Or I can do a video too. I can do a video. Should we do a video? Let's do a video. So to do a video, let's see how we can do it.

40:37Do we do it as a prototype?

40:42There's no video section, right? But I think it's going to be a video over here. So we're going to go Senior Brains Video. We'll say ad. And then I'm going to say, what I should have done is actually, actually it'll be interesting to know if it can get context from my other projects. I want you to create a 30-second ad for my new app, Senior Brains. You can find the screenshots in the project called Senior Brains. If you have any questions, let me know. I want the creative direction to be cute, funny, warm, and interesting to watch. Your target is 45 to... Actually, I'm going to say 40 to 60...

41:5135 to 45-year-olds. Basically, the children of the buyer. Children of the older adult who's going to use the product. Can you do this? Hit send.

42:17This is just funny. This is just a funny thing to say. In before Senior Frog's copyright claim. You love to see it. That's just funny. I appreciate you Zeb. So quick questions. Link to the Senior Brains project. So I actually have to go to the project ID. Fine.

42:42So I have to go here. I'll have to go into here, into the Senior Brains. Now do I go share? Copy link. And let's see if that will work here. What? So this is always confusing. Here is the project. What I do find confusing is every time you leave a folder and go back in, it kind of like it loses context a little bit. See, I wanted to get back to the questionnaire. But when I went back here, there was nothing, right? But anyways, I gave it the... So that's a bit of a miss, I will say. Cloud design, that's a miss. I would have loved to... I would have loved to just... It'd been back, right? It doesn't feel like a seamless experience.

43:41And that doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good when that happens. So I have a feeling this is going to take long, by the way. I mean, well, not long. Maybe it's going to take five, ten minutes to create this. But who knows? We're going to find out together. I've got a solid read on the design system now. I'll stand by for your answers on the question forms. But where's the question forms, sir? It goes, Claude has some questions and your boy is clicking and it's not coming up. So let's see where it would be. I'm just going to ask it. I can't find the questionnaire. where is it? And it should be able to put it on screen.

44:32So when in doubt, if you don't know something, just ask design what to do.

44:44And that's generally a good rule of thumb. So stuff is happening. Stuff is happening. We love to see it. So the questions should have appeared in your preview pane on the right side of the screen. Okay. Should have, but it did not. If it's not, it may have been dismissed, which it was. Let me just make reasonable creative choices and get building. Wow. Wow. Okay. Okay, sir. I'll commit to a strong direction and expose variations. I don't know about you, but I would have loved to have seen the questionnaire come back. I would have loved to have known and actually answered it. Because I love doing the questionnaires.

45:32One of the things I love most about Claude Design, funny enough, as a first reaction, is doing the questionnaires. Because in doing the questionnaires, I, as the product manager, can get so much more clear as to what exactly I'm building. Of course, I grabbed an idea from Idea Browser or if I come up with an idea on a walk or something, it's just like a one-liner or a two-liner. What I love about products like this is it helps me refine my thinking. And if I let it do all the thinking and all the judgment, then I find myself creating projects and never finishing them. And we don't want to do that.

46:15We don't want to do that at all. So I don't like that. That's a miss, Claude Design.

46:27and yeah, that's all I can say about that. So we can see here the plan. So committing it out loud. We're getting a 30 second animated video. By the way, someone said, I wonder how many tokens it uses for the 30 second video. I wonder too. I also want to say that it has not asked me for more tokens yet. yet. I'm on a Claude Max plan. I believe on this account, I believe I'm on a Claude Max plan. It has not asked me what is the value I've gotten out of this. The value right now has been thousands of dollars. Period. The value has been thousands of dollars. Did you see that deck? That deck was crazy.

47:15The directions, the wireframe directions were on point. And the visual style was really good. It nailed 90 % of it. Realistically, with 30 minutes of back and forth and going through it, I could have gotten those app designs to be next level. Animations, interactions, that would have been really interesting to see. Could it have done actually interactions and animations? Not sure, but the actual designs were really, really good.

47:51Ken says here, I'm sure the usage limit is terrible. It was already bad when you create, edit artifacts. Maybe the Anthropic people are listening to this stream and are like, let's just give him some more tokens. We feel bad for him.

48:12I'm kidding, they're not. especially when I'm doing a couple jabs here at Anthropic. People are saying usage on Claude is terrible. Yeah. Yeah, that is a lot of people say that.

48:35So let's just go and see what's happening here.

48:43so 30 second video this the story is going to be a character driven slice of life we follow ruth who's the mom and sarah who's the adult daughter sarah gifts the app ruth uses it they connect through it funny warm tone with visual gags okay oh okay mom have you seen my glasses every Tuesday. Sarah Haddad, there has to be something. Gifting the app.

49:13Playing. This is interesting. It's not what I expected, to be honest. I expected a full-on commercial. This is cool. I could see this being an ad on X or something but I can see this being an add-on. I'll give that feedback. Cool. I can see this being an add on X or something, but this is for meta. Also, I'm curious, can you make this feel more like a real commercial? Something I'd watch on TV. This doesn't feel like that.

50:04So we got Danny who says, Hi Greg, just to let you know, I've run out of tokens in a couple hours and I cannot add more. Crazy. Crazy.

50:18So these are these tweaks that you can do on the right hand side.

50:26Okay, so there's, you know, it's cool that it has, I mean, this is pretty cool, but it's just, it's pretty cool I should say it's pretty cool I just want to see if it can make a cinematic version that's really what I want and I didn't do a good enough job in the prompt realistically saying that so

50:50Danny's impressed with Claude Design he says the amount of work it did in those two hours was fantastic Tim Park says it's cool, but it doesn't slap. I think he's referring to the video ad, and I agree. That is a good way to put it. Ida says, I love Claude's ability. It's Yusha's take. It's away 75%. Yeah,

51:27I think tokens tokens, it's interesting to see how, here's the way to think about tokens. How much value are you getting out of it? That's really what it comes down to. Right now, I'm getting a ton of value. What's this work to me? A lot.

51:54This is funny. Ada says, It's genius, but imagine the most beautiful house in the world, but you can live in it for one day. That's what Claude design is. That's interesting.

52:08This is hilarious. It's cool watching it work. I have no idea what caramelized onions are, but it keeps saying it when it builds.

52:20Wow, that's pretty good. I think what you're talking about is when it's writing or doing things. Sometimes it says, Claude will say schlepping or working or doing things.

52:37Sautéing, right? It loves to sauté. Claude Design and Claude in general love to sauté. We're going to take a quick break. I'm going to do a turmeric orange shot. I'm recovering from a cold. So I'm going to do a shot on screen and just sip this shot. Actually, I'm not even going to sip it. I'm just going to take it. It's got a really nice orange, turmeric vibe to it. Turmeric orange. Look at that. It's got a crust on the top. It's crazy. All right, here we go.

53:20I just failed to get this out. It's so thick that I can't even get it out.

53:28I'm only getting a bit out. A little bit.

53:36Inject the turmeric. I'm just trying to get better for you all so I can do more demos.

53:45oh

53:54all right all right whoa

54:03we did it we did it um turmeric and black pepper powerful yes we don't have time to be sick here we gotta I also have apple lemon ginger apple lemon ginger delicious

54:35absolutely delicious

54:40agreed agreed Agreed. Turmeric color branding with clod on point two. 100%. All right, we're going to give this a few more minutes.

54:53And I'm scared to go even touch anywhere else on this product because I'm scared it's going to stop working. I don't know about you. I feel like when I'm on clod design, I'm walking on eggshells.

55:09Here's an interesting alpha. Steve Katz, for the hyper-realistic version you want to with Opus 4.7 run the same prompt on eversince.ai. So I've never heard of eversince.ai.

55:27But this is cool. Wow, this is what I want. This is like the dream. This is, I'm guessing, using Cdense 2 or similar.

55:40So yeah, maybe Claude Design is not it for videos. Yeah, let's see what he uses. See, that's two. This is cool.

55:55Wow, launch today. That's interesting.

56:05yeah I feel like there's no way that this is going to be as good as that there's no way I would go and download the files

56:20here you know what we can do we can export this oh my god here we go

56:30Oh my God. Oh my God. Are you watching this ad right now?

56:49Wow. What do you think of that ad? I don't even know how to get back to it. It's still working on it. But what did you think of that? Did you see that? What is happening?

57:06Oh, new version. New version just dropped. Okay, watch it again. Mom, where are your glasses?

57:16I'm pretty sure you can create audio on design. Or actually, I don't know if you can create audio. That's a good question. Can you create audio on Cloud Design? you certainly can bring it to Suno and create the audio there and then just put it together it's better but it sucks it's better but it sucks claw design is not for video it's like okay it's okay I don't know my first rate I don't know it might just be we haven't spent time with it we didn't do a storyboard and stuff like this. But I don't know. It's not this. It's not ever since.ai. Look at this. This is what we're competing with. There you have it, folks.

58:14We played and we tried with Claude Design together. I'm going to stop sharing my screen.

58:24And there you have it. We did it in under an hour. Thank you everyone for tuning in. Hope this has been fun. Hope you learned a thing or two. My final impression of Claude design is that you should try it and get your hands dirty. I think that the wireframe capability on Claude design is incredible. I think that the ability to take an idea and put it into a deck is unbelievable. I think that the visual designs of Claude Design are really, really good. I think that it's really hard to do multiple prompts at the same time. So you have to be patient. I think the video capabilities of Claude Design is a five on 10 at best.

59:20So overall, is it worth trying? Absolutely. I think it's best in class. I don't know if it's the best, but it's... I'm going to be using it. I'm going to be using it. Like I said, it's the best wireframing I've seen to date. I'm going to be trying it versus some of the competition. I think it's really cool. And thank you all. Thank you all. Get your hands dirty. if you enjoyed this please let me know I can do more of this sort of stuff and I'll see you next time

From the publisher

I go live and get my hands dirty with Claude Design, Anthropic's new design tool in research preview. Across roughly an hour, I run a real workflow end-to-end: pulling a product idea from Idea Browser, generating wireframes, iterating into visual designs, building a pitch deck, and attempting a 30-second video ad. I share my first reactions in real time and take feedback from the chat. By the end, I land on a clear verdict — best-in-class for wireframes and visuals, weaker for video — and give you a practical sense of where this tool fits in your workflow.

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro

00:50 – Claude Design walkthrough

03:48 – Picking a product idea from Idea Browser: Senior Brains

05:54 – Wire-framing Senior Brains

13:54 – Reacting to the generated wireframe

20:44 – Building a pitch deck for Senior Brains

30:39 – Reacting to a pitch deck

34:58 – Reacting to Hi-Fi wireframe

40:40 – Creating a 30-second animated video ad

48:58 – Reacting to animated video ad

58:10 – Final verdict and recommendations

Key Points

Claude Design's wireframing is the strongest capability I've seen in a design tool to date, especially the questionnaire that extrapolates like a product manager.

The pitch deck generation nails roughly 90% of the output with minimal input, which saves hours.

Visual design mockups come through clean and usable, ready to iterate with 30 minutes of back-and-forth.

Video generation lands at about a 5/10 — workable as a social post, weaker as a real commercial.

Start with wireframes first to conserve tokens and sharpen feature decisions before committing to high fidelity.

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