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When Anthropic released "claude design" people were telling that figma is dead now, but in fact claude design didn't move forward and stayed as a "fallback tool" when you quickly need to check / edit something. And for the serious work you still go to Figma and other designer tools. I have a feeling that Whiteboards, Sheets, Docs and so on will be the same - it's a nicer way to present artefacts, discuss them and maybe make notes, but for the proper editor experience you'll go to the tools which were designed for these things. And I'm not saying that Claude Something tools are bad, they're just overly simplified and limited, probably on purpose.

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For my latest app, I didn’t use any analytics software or package. Instead, I had the app save events as jsonl files on the server. I used Claude artifacts to create a custom report from that data. That was just a python file which now sits on a server next to those data files, giving me a live dashboard of very customized insights.

I don’t see myself ever using an off-the-shelf analytics package again.

You realize the hallucination rates are still circa 2-10%. So 1/10 times you're getting straight up incorrect reports..

The report is generated by a python script

Don't do that. You'll use too few tokens if your script is reusable.

Still? Or are you quoting 2023 stats? You mean Claude is incorrect once every ten times I ask it something?

Yes.

You're right but I do feel like this is more of a case of different paradigms being a slow burn rather than a failure.

I don't see people switching to Claude sheets overnight & the messaging from anthropic will likely become less effusive over time (short-/medium-term). But I'd be surprised if this doesn't make significant inroads in the long-term.

I agree, these new products (the same as claude design) is a base on which they'll be probably building new experiences and use cases, so long-term it will get much more integrated into daily live, especially for quick and easy tasks

Claude design was good and it only gets better at design. For solo projects, it’s much better. They’re moving it from standalone to being fully integrated.

Figma is the default for teams but is losing a lot of stickiness.

I agree on solo projects, I actually use claude design as a viewer to see what my agents built or for quick and dirty prototypes, the design work itself happens in claude code. So to me "claude design" as a product doesn't really click, although I agree it's useful for many many people. In my case I'm just not an experience designer to learn Figma from scratch so claude design covers that part, but I saw how cool UX designers were still choosing Figma

I'm really happy with what Claude can do with Reladraw. No longer are objects colliding on the drawing (see Mermaid, draw.io). The artifacts that Claude can create off of "lighter" tools will make me go there 80% of the time, Figma and other "heavies" can stay in the 20%. More like 90/10 actually.

> objects colliding on the drawing

I don't quite follow you. Are you talking about Mermaid's lack of decision when laying out diagrams?

I'm working on a tool that makes it easier for me to work with mermaid diagrams (mermaid is a great intermediary format for representing certain types of information, e.g. software architecure, but its syntax does not work well with my brain), so I'm interested in alternative concepts that make it easier to work with these types of things.

Mermaid is an automatic layout tool. Reladraw has language where instead of letting an algorithm completely randomize your layout, you declare where items go using relative terms, such as below, right of, level with, or gaps (relative placement). The natural language is good for the LLM.

I think its shortsighted tbh. The advances are crazy. One will just release another claude design later and before you know it, it'll just be super figma.

What these tools are generally missing is a way for the user to "fix stuff" that isnt just prompting. Once they add things like that, added to model improvements... it's just going to be a cost story: which one is cheaper.

I think Ant and OpenAI are doing the same thing that AWS does in that they launch stuff they've built for customers or internal use.

OpenAI did something similar with Sales Assistant last year. Haven't heard of anyone using it.

Once you understand how far you can push it, Claude Design is an incredible tool - my personal favorite ai-related thing of the year. Of course it's piggybacking off all the model advancements which has made it increasingly capable.

For the vast majority of users, Claude Design is game-changing. I used to pay designers tons of money to create brand style guides, which other humans then had to attempt to use to create on-brand anything (social media posts, printed documents, posters, websites, ads, whatever) for the business. They would almost always not know such a style guide existed, ignore it, or fail because they just didn't have the skills.

Claude Design almost completely solves that. One dedicated designer can make a Claude Design System and then everything it makes from there stays on brand with essentially zero effort. And it is super intuitive to get to a usable Design System. Every time I use it I think "This is how AI is supposed to feel."

> When Anthropic released "claude design" people were telling that figma is dead now, but in fact claude design didn't move forward and stayed as a "fallback tool" when you quickly need to check / edit something.

I don't think there is a reasonable expectation that these new tools will simply end Google Workspace. Google are going to be just fine to do whatever they want with their stuff, and they have the customers.

Anthropic can just do this for a new generation of people and businesses, and establish themselves here over time.

I wouldn't take any "X is dead" as more than just momentarily hype, we should get used to it now that it's been happening for years.

For me, this is simply a first-party UI for Claude. So they have better control over the presentation layer + some extra features on top.

It's not meant to be equivalent to Google Sheets or Excel.

Claude Design is a great idea but a terrible product. Claude Design may not kill figma but "something like claude design" probably will.

this is how Google docs, sheets and slides felt in comparison to MS Office when they first came out.

Initially they were adopted by customers with the simplest use cases and the products grew over time to what they are.

The next set of startups might just have a Claude sub when they are small and grow with the product

True, but still waiting for Figma stock recovery :(

I thought Figma would recover once they finally do something with Payload CMS since they acquired them long time ago. And only now I found that they did (https://www.figma.com/blog/websites-with-payload-in-figma/) and it doesn't look good :/ I was expecting much more

For us, Claude design has been "good enough" and we stay in the design phase much less long in general. There's no need to get a polished design, just get it into code once you've decided the major UI decisions and iterate there.

Figma is trading lower now than it did when Claude Design was released with a total stock drop of 56.38% from Nov 10, 2025 to Nov 10, 2026.

So yes, not dead and clearly good for people who want that additional layer of control, but also nowhere where it used to be.

> also nowhere where it used to be

is this about growth, the userbase or the product? userbase is growing and the product seems to work fine; as for growth I'm not sure that was what people talked about when they said Figma would *die* but even then 43% seems fine?

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