# Claude Design 145 Hacker News commenters recommended Claude Design and 110 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Turns ideas into interactive UI prototypes quickly and hands them off to Claude Code, but it burns through tokens and usage limits fast, and its visuals can look generic. ## Why people recommend it - Fast interactive prototypes and mockups (6 comments): "I showed my mum what we could do with claude design. Claude whipped up a much better looking, working version of (part) of the website in about 5 minutes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433279)) "crunches through ungodly amount of tokens and is really slow on iteration but at least you can get some really nice prototypes extremely quickly there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432333)) "Claude Design does such a great job of making the UI mockups interactive and providing a great base that the agents can use." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854198)) - Smooth handoff to Claude Code (5 comments): "results have been excellent. I have explicit clean-up instructions in Claude Code, and the handoff skill in Claude Design is pretty solid." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128857)) "This is their first graphic design product, but it fits nicely because once you create a prototype, you can hand it over to Claude Code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811127)) "Claude Design is more than capable, which can then be fed directly into Claude Code to implement, test, iterate, and ship." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680322)) - Lets non-designers communicate visually (4 comments): "This is a great bridge between non-designers with taste and designers who can't fully technically implement their solutions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808294)) "it's that non-designers can now have a visual conversation instead of writing a 3 page spec that nobody reads" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814490)) "I'm not amazed by the colours, because they look LLMy, but it's much better than anything I could do by hand." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295439)) - Clean, thoughtful product experience (2 comments): "Claude Design was/is absolutely brilliant. The embedded skill in work and code is capable but the experience of Claude design was so much cleaner." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192461)) "It's also just a beautiful product. The interaction model, styling and integrations via exporting is all super thoughtful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811323)) ## What people warn about - Burns tokens, hits limits fast (5 comments): "the limits are awful. Even on the Max plan you're going to hit the weekly limit after about 10 mins of use." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820460)) "It produced great results for me, in 10 mins, and then my usage was blown and now I have to wait a week." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820480)) "crunches through ungodly amount of tokens and is really slow on iteration but at least you can get some really nice prototypes extremely quickly there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432333)) - Generic or poor visual output (6 comments): "much more easier using claude design rather than Figma yet it does not produce the same output quality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433710)) "Claude Design Studio generated this garbage UI, that I fixed manually, but it created great code j never could have that made it work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237343)) "the weird squished font makes everything look like its in the wrong aspect ratio and the site is a weird combination of too noisy/busy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841968)) - Lost data or credits after downgrading (2 comments): "I was previously subscribed to the max plan, claimed credits, then downgraded to the pro plan and noticed I lost my credits." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128924)) "it would have been more customer-friendly for Anthropic to warn you about your data disappearing after unsubscription" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129373)) - Just an HTML generator (2 comments): "This largely appears to be a HTML generator at its core, not necessarily what Figma does with layers/canvases etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807170)) "Which doesn't work for a native iOS app, so it's HTML rendering something that would then be rewritten in iOS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809407)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Google Stitch](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-stitch.md): 25 recommend - [Diffui](https://hackerapproved.com/p/diffui.md): 7 recommend - [Pomelli by Google](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pomelli.md): 6 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://claude.com/product/design) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Claude Design", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-design/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).