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.

I've been absolutely cruising with Claude canvas artifacts the past week. It's been absolutely amazing. Total AI euphoric psychosis what can I say?

I had Claude code writing design updates to claude.ai for a while, which was pretty cool but then it somehow started iterating faster and it turned out that it had vibe coded the claude AI canvas runtime locally and now I have designs in git that are actually independent of Claude design.

The quality and velocity of the experience are starting...

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'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.

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'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.

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

> 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 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.

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

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.

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.

True, but still waiting for Figma stock recovery :(

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.