The best Claude Design workflow you’ll ever see…
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I figured out a system that allows you
to design the most beautiful apps you
can possibly imagine using Claude design
and Chat GPT's new image gen model. The
system I'm about to show you, I haven't
seen anywhere else on YouTube. When you
combine these two tools, even if you
have zero design or artistic skills like
me, you can create the most beautiful
apps, branding designs you've ever made
in your life. In this video, I'll go
over both these tools, both Claude
design and the new Chat GPT image model.
I'll go over how they work and I'll go
through my new system that allows you to
combine the two to make the most
beautiful designs ever. If you stick
with me until the end of the video, you
will become a world-class designer. Now,
let's lock in and get into it. Now, for
those who don't know, over the last
week, both Anthropic and OpenAI released
two best-in-class tools. Anthropic
released Claude design, which we'll go
through fully, a really amazing design
tool. And then Chat GPT released their
new image gen model, their
second-generation image gen model, which
is by far the best image gen model out
there. It blows Nano Banana out of the
water. But, there are some challenges
with each though. There's some ways that
both have weaknesses, and when you
combine them together, their weaknesses
go away and they're amazing. The main
challenge is, and we'll go through
building some designs in a second with
design and the image gen model, Claude
design is amazing, but much like all the
other Anthropic products, it has really
low usage limits. A lot of people ran
into this where they tried to build a
couple designs, and by the end of the
second design they made, their limits
were gone and had to wait an entire
week. The issue with the image gen model
is there's no design tools out of the
box that it only creates images you ask
for. It's not great at building entire
design kits, but it's absolutely amazing
at generating images. It's also
incredibly inexpensive, and you can even
use it on the free tier. When combined,
it solves each other's weaknesses. The
issue with Claude design is because of
its low limits, if you've never designed
things before, if you're anything like
me, I've never designed anything in my
life, I'm very unartistic, I stink at
all of that. When I went into Claude
design, I had to experiment a ton. I had
to like ask questions, try things like
10 different times. I hit my limits
without creating anything amazing. When
I started combining it though with Chat
GPT's image gen model, amazing things
happened. Let me show you how this
works. So, with each tool, we're going
to go through four stages in this
system. By going through all these
stages, you'll not only have way better
results, incredible professional-level
designs, but you also save tons of money
because you're not going to keep hitting
your Claude limits over and over again.
So, let's start off on the Chat GPT
image side. We're going to start with
inspiration. By the end of these eight
stages, you'll have a fully working
design system prototype for an app
that's going to look incredible and
that's going to match exactly what you
want. So, stage one is inspiration.
We're going to start off on the Chat GPT
image side. Our goal of using this new
image gen model with Chat GPT is to come
up with a logo and design guidelines.
This is going to be the base of
everything we use in Claude design. This
is going to allow it so we don't have to
experiment a ton in Claude design. This
will be great cuz we can move all this
over after, and then Claude design can
spit us out an incredible design system
and prototype in one go. No
experimentation needed, so we don't have
to hit our limits. So, to come up with
our logo and design guidelines, the
first thing we need to do is find
inspiration and give it to Chat GPT so
we have a starting point. This doesn't
need to be perfect. Just find some
images out there that you enjoy, that
you like, that you want to use as
inspiration, and then we'll start doing
some exploration so we can make it our
own. My favorite way to find
inspiration, if you don't know where to
start, is I just like scrolling X. So, I
go down X and I just look for images and
logos I like. So, I'll go down, I'll
look at images and logos like, "Ooh, I
like this. I like this gradient right
here." So, what I'll do is I'll bookmark
this. And what I do is I add it to a
visual inspiration folder. So, I go
there, that's now in that folder. I keep
going down, and I just look for logos
and images that I would like to use
inside my design system. Ooh, I kind of
like this Orlando Magic logo. It's nice,
simple, clean. I like that. I'm just
actually going to save this image. Let's
copy this image first of all. Even
though I'm a Celtics fan, we'll take
that logo. I like the way it looks. So,
I So, I paste that in. I'm scrolling
down. Ooh, I kind of like these logos.
Look at I like the way those look. So,
let's do this. Let's screenshot this. If
you're on Mac, you can do command
control shift four. That allows you to
kind of copy, paste that over. And we
put in a few images that we want to use
as inspiration. I really like these
guys' logos. If I knew how to pronounce
their name, I'd say it. Is it News
Research? Is Nois Research? I don't
know. I like their logo. Let's copy that
as well. And now we have in a few pieces
of inspiration. You probably want to get
to four or five. That's going to be a
sweet spot. We're going to do just these
three for the sake of this demo here.
Now, what we're going to want to do is
we're going to take this inspiration and
we're going to start doing some
exploration. We're going to have it
generate us some logos, see what feels
good, take an element here, take an
element there, and start getting closer
and closer to a final design guideline.
So, you're going to want to do this, and
this works great if you want to do this
alongside with me. Once you put your
logos in, you're going to want to
describe what you're building at the
moment. So, I'm building an app called
Henry Intelligent Machines. I'm going to
describe what that is, and I'm going to
say I want to start figuring out a
design system and logo for this app. So,
go in, start describing what you're
building. So, here's what I said, "I'm
building an app called Henry Intelligent
Machines. It is an AI agent that
autonomously builds businesses for the
user and generates revenue. It can build
many businesses at once. Please use the
images attached as inspiration. Help me
generate a sheet of logos I could
potentially choose from. I like octopi
and owls. Make different versions with
those animals. Use your new image gen
model." This is important to add at the
end here. I found that as I experiment
with this image gen model inside Chat
GPT, it'll randomly just like not use
it. It'll It'll like create PDFs and
things, and it won't use the new image
gen model. So, if you wanted to use the
new image gen model, sometimes you have
to explicitly say it. So, I did that
here. So, you're describing what you're
building, and you're giving all
information on what you like, right? I
My two favorite animals are octopi and
owls. I'm giving it that. Let's even
come up with some logos for that. And
we're asking for an entire sheet of
logos. We're not looking for perfection
here. What we are looking for is just a
direction, right? We're in the middle of
the forest, it's foggy, we can't see
anything. We're just looking for a
direction to go in. And everything it
builds out is going to get us closer and
closer and closer to our end goal. So
again, the goal of this phase one using
the image gen model is to get to a
selection of a design
system and a logo. This will make
everything we do in Claude design next
so easy, so quick, so simple, so that we
don't have to do a bunch of
experimentation that will take up all
our limits. The beautiful thing about
OpenAI and Chat GPT is you really have
high limits even in the free tier. Even
in the free tier, you can do a ton of
stuff. When you are doing
experimentation,
you want to be doing it in Chat GPT, and
then you go to Claude for refinement.
So, let's check out what they got here.
Let's see the images here. All we're
looking to do is find one or two things
we like from this. One or two things we
can take and say, "All right, let's
expand on this." This is the second
phase of the Chat GPT side, which is
exploration. We're not going in any
direction, we're just trying to find
anything we like and enjoy. All right,
so two things stick out to me here. I
like these two logos right here. I feel
like they'd look really good as iPhone
logos on your screen. The issue is I
don't love the kind of depth to it. I
think there's a little bit too much
going on. So, what we're going to do is
we're going to screenshot the ones we
like, right? So, I do again, if you're
on Mac, command control shift four. That
allows me then just to go here and
paste. I'm going to do that again. What
that does is it takes the screenshot and
puts it onto your clipboard. So, I paste
these two in, and I'm going to say, "I
like these two, but they're a little too
complex.
Can we flatten and simplify them a bit?
More minim-
malistic. Give me many variations of
each. Use your image gen model." All
right, I'm going to hit I'm going to hit
enter on that, and it is going to now
refine this a little bit. Right now,
we're moving on to stage three, which is
the refinement phase. We've done some
exploration. We've now got a direction
we want to go in, and now we're refining
that direction. Now, this stage, the
refinement direction, this could be like
five or six levels, and I highly
recommend that. I highly recommend doing
this like five or six times. It's going
to keep making a bunch of variations.
It's going to make these big sheets with
tons of variations. Then you're going to
choose a couple and say, "Expand on that
more." Then you're going to choose a
couple and say, "Expand on that more."
And every time you do that refinement
where you choose a couple and expand on
it, you're getting closer and closer and
closer to your final design system,
which we will then take over to Claude
design, and I have a lot of cool things
I'm going to show you there, so stick
around for that. But, that will allow
you to go with a really focused system
when you get to Claude design so that
you're not hitting your limits
immediately. All right, so we have a new
sheet here. Let's Okay, I like where
we're going here. I like the simplicity
and minimalism of some of these. Let's
again, let's keep this going. Let's do
this. I like this first one a lot for
him. Let's take that. And then let's
check out the others here, see if any
other stick out. I like the flatness and
colors of this one. So, let's pop this
open.
Let's paste that in there. So, we got
those in there. And let's see if there's
any others we like here. I also like
this one as well. That one is clean with
this owl with the square around it. That
one's nice. And then let's take the
colors of this one. This one looks
pretty nice as well. And again, we're
going we're refining more. Every time we
refine, every time we make selections,
we're getting closer and closer. Now,
I'm going to add a twist here. Let's add
a twist. Now, we're going to say, "I
like the way these four look. Please
expand on them, but also include some
that are a little out of the box." I'm
going to hit enter on that. Right, so
we're refining, but we're also allowing
the model to get a little explorative.
We're allowing the model to experiment
and try new things to see if any ideas
come out of it. This is the playing
around phase, right? We're just playing
around, we're refining. Doing this
should be fun. Finding new directions,
exploring new ideas. That's all we're
doing here, trying to get closer and
closer to the destination. Every
refinement is one micro step in the
right direction. All right, so this is
cool. So, now it's getting a little bit
outside the box. Let's see what we got
here. All right, there's some I like
here. There's some I like here. I really
like this one. It doesn't have the
octopus or owl in it, but I like that
logo. Let's drop that in there. I like
this one with the gradient as well. I
like that image. That image is cool.
I've never seen anything like that.
Let's put that in. And then let's do one
more. I think I'm kind of settled on the
octopus. I think I like the octopus
more. So, let's do this. Let's grab this
one right here. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to say this, "I like these
four logos the most. Please refine the
gradient
and include them in the logos. Give me
different variations of the gradient."
All right. And for those who reply to
every video saying, "Hey, why don't you
just use the voice and talk in your
microphone to type?" I like typing.
Leave me alone. I enjoy typing. Deal
with my typing. All right. Let's hit
enter here. And what we did there is now
we're starting to refine the color
scheme a little bit. I like these
colors. Now, I want different variations
of the colors. We're getting a direction
for the logo. Now, we're starting to
refine the colors. And at the end of
this refinement stage, we're going to
have a really nice logo. We're going to
have really good colors and we'll be
able to take that to Claude design and
make it even better. All right, look at
this. Okay, so now we have some
variations in colors. This is something
you should be doing, picking out the
colors. I like this top row. I think I'm
a fan of this top row. I think this is
the one. It feels very kind of
futuristic and different. I don't know
many logos that have this kind of color
scheme in it. So, I like this. The
question becomes which one do we go
with? Which logo do we want? I think I'm
going to go with the octopus. I think
this app icon style is the one. I think
that's what we're going to go with. So,
I'm going to take that. I'm going to
copy it. I'm going to paste it in. And
we're going to do one more stage here
before we give it to Claude design. I'm
going to say, "I love this logo and
gradient. Let's go with this. Can you
use your image and model design a
branding guide for this?" We're just
going to add a little bit more fun here.
"Also design
some merch." And we're going to hit
enter on this. This is going to give us
a branding guide. So, it's going to have
a guide just telling like the colors,
the images. This is just going to be fun
to have. This is just a secondary asset
we'll keep on the side. So, what we're
going to do next is we're going to have
it give us a prompt we can put into
Claude design to actually use Claude
design for what it's best to have, which
is creating design systems and
prototypes. So, this has the base of
what we're working with. Then we're
going to take this and put it in Claude
design to make the actual systems. Let's
check out what it built here. How cool
is that? Let's check this out. All
right, so I pull this in here. Look at
this. This is cool. So, you have your
logo, the brand overview, the logo
variations, the typography. And if I
actually scroll down here, you can see
uh some of the merch. That looks really
cool. Some brand values. I like that. It
even has your little credit card in
there. I like that. So, we've made our
selection. We've selected our brand
direction. One last step before we go
into Claude design. Then I'll take you
all through Claude design, show you how
it works. We'll make some incredible
things over there. We're going to say
this, "Okay, excellent. Now, I want to
take this over to Claude design tool to
build a design system and prototype.
Please build me a prompt that describes
our brand and everything involved so I
can create a design system over there."
We're going to hit enter and ChatGPT
will give us the prompt for Claude
design. AI is the best tool in the world
for writing prompts. You don't want to
build prompts yourself. So, it's going
to do it for us. It's going to save us a
ton of time. And in a second, we'll go
over to the greatest design tool of all
time, Claude design. So, it made the
prompt. Look at this. Look at this
prompt it made. That's actually
incredible. Let's do this. Let's copy it
over. Let's go here. So, now we're going
to go into Claude design. We have a
four-step system we're now going to do
in Claude design. We're going to build a
design system, create some artifacts,
refine it, and then have the final
prototype ready. Here we go in Claude
design. This is Claude design. Um some
amazing things going on here. You can
build out high-fidelity prototypes,
whatever you want. But where we're going
to start is actually setting up a design
system. What a design system is is
repeatable
branding, colors, designs, typography,
everything involved with the design that
it will allow you to use it over and
over and over again for everything you
build moving forward, right? Once you
build a repeatable design system, it
makes it incredibly easy to design
everything else you want to do moving
forward. So, if we build a design system
here for the app we're building, we can
then take that design system and build
out slideshows, build out websites,
build out pictures, logos, whatever we
want. Building out the design system
first is going to make using Claude
design moving forward so much easier and
simpler. So, let's do this. Let's set up
a design system. Let's put in the
company name and blur. I'm going to say
him. I'm going to say YouTube video. So,
I remember this is the one I made during
the YouTube video. AI agent that builds
micro businesses for users. Then you can
go in. All of this is optional. Put a
link to your GitHub. So, if you have the
app already built out on GitHub, you can
put it in here so it can get a feel for
everything inside of it. If you have the
code on your computer, you can do that
as well. I'm going to do that. I'm going
to actually attach the code here. This
is going to allow it to go in, see all
the features and functionality,
understand what's in it. We can upload a
Figma files. If you use Figma at all and
you have a system in Figma, you can
upload that here. And then you can add
files here. So, what we're going to do
is we're going to save that final sheet
and put it in here. So, I'm going to go
up here. I'm going to save this. So,
let's save this image. Him design system
YouTube. Save. And I'm going to upload
that file here. Now, it has all our
assets that we built with ChatGPT. Any
other notes? Let's do this. Let's take
that prompt we got from ChatGPT and
paste that in here. And I'm going to
say, "The prompt below is from ChatGPT
who designed the logo." And then we're
going to say, "Continue to generation."
It's going to take about 5 minutes to
generate your design system. It's super
thorough. It's super in-depth. And
that's why it probably hits limits
really, really quickly. It's because
what Claude built here is absolutely
amazing. It is going to go through and
do everything. It's going to check out
your codes. It's going to set the
project title, the preview, design
system, UI kit, all the skills it needs.
Everything it needs to be a designer is
going to be built out here. That's why
you get like three of these a week
before your limits are hit. But that's
why this system I created is so amazing
because instead of experimenting here
and doing the kind of exploration we did
on ChatGPT, which would cause us to hit
our limits very quickly, we instead do
that on the high-limit tool, which is
actually still incredible, ChatGPT, and
then we do the refinement here, which
only takes one or two turns. So, we
don't hit our limits. All right, looks
like it's done generating. This is
amazing. Look at everything it built out
here. Every component, brand piece,
spacing, colors, type, everything. What
I love about it, too, and why I've just
always loved using Claude, the by far
the best part of the model
is the way it talks with you, the way it
asks you questions, the way it truly
cares about what you think and what you
have to say. So, what I need for you to
make this perfect, "Please review the
design system tab, which is this first
tab when you're in. Does the colors make
sense?" And then it tells me to review
all these different components. So,
let's review it and see what we got
here. So, we have the UI, which is the
cockpit. I'm liking the colors. I like
how it's like a very solid black
background and then the colors pop off
of it. And look here, you can even rate
it. So, I say this looks good.
Then we have the display, kind of the
header. I like that font. That feels
like a good font. The future of business
is built by intelligence. I like that.
Looks good. Type scale.
Those I like that font a lot. That looks
really clean. The pure black with the
pure white. Let's go down here. Let's
look at the brand. So, the logo lockups.
I That gradient slaps. I like that
gradient. That feels like a kind of a
futuristic gradient. I like that. Let's
just check out the last things here.
Let's see. Buttons. Buttons looking
good. I really like the font. I got to
figure out what font that is. And then
the final gradient. That's a beautiful
gradient.
I love that. All right. I'll say,
"Everything looks very good to me."
And then I'm just going to paste in the
logo one more time. It looks like it
just wants just the final logo there.
Logo attached. And I'm going to hit
send. And we should be good to go to
have our final design system in place.
What's even cool is you can watch them
actually test it all out on their own
laptop here, too. You click it, it opens
and closes. It's the little things like
that that make Claude very fun to use.
All right, looks like it's all done. We
have our design system in place. Now, we
can move on to the final stages and
actually build out the prototype we can
use to build out our app. So, we have
our design system here. Now, we're going
to go in and we're going to actually
build a new prototype. So, if you come
back to the home screen, you see here
new prototype. We're going to click high
fidelity. We're going to click create
here. We're going to say design system.
So, sometimes here's an issue with
Claude design. It doesn't have it like
published this design. So, what we're
going to do is we're going to download
this. We're going to download this
project as a zip just in case.
Sometimes it's a little finicky with the
design systems. We're going to create a
new design and new prototype in high
fidelity. So, I'm going to call this him
YouTube. I'm going to click create. This
will build us out our first prototype
using that design system. So, I dragged
it into the sketch site over here. Boom,
there's our design system that is all
attached there. You can't see it cuz
it's pushed down off my screen share
since there's so many assets in here,
but I'm going to say please build a
dashboard prototype using all these
assets. What you're going to want to do
here is describe your app so it can
build the dashboard out for it or
whatever you're building. If you're
looking to make a slideshow, you can
describe that. For me, I'm building an
app, so I'm going to describe my app
into the chat with all of these assets
in there and I'm going to hit enter and
sent and it's going to take that and it
is going to start building out that
prototype. There you go. Now, you can
see it. It's building it out and it is
going to get to work. So, just a recap
as it builds us where we're at so far.
We built out using chat GPT image gen,
all using all our inspiration, exactly
what logos we wanted, what design
direction we wanted so we didn't have to
experiment in Claude design. We took all
those findings after our exploration and
refinement, put it in the Claude design.
We made our design system. We had some
artifacts created. We refined it a
little bit and now we're building out
the prototype, the final stage. And
let's see what we're going to get out of
this. So, it's building it out right
now. We even got our merch design, our
app logos, all of that. And boom, just
like that, we have our dashboard built
out. Check that out. We have our
workspace. We have a really nice system
that shows all the opportunities, active
runs. If If you're not as familiar with
Henry Intelligent Machines, what I'm
building out, this might look a little
foreign to you, but this looks really
nice for what I'm building out and
matches it perfectly. You can now take
this design system, including all the
assets you built, all of that, hit
share, and then you can say hand this
off to Claude code. So, if you're
building your app now in Claude code,
you just hand this off to it and it now
has the full dashboard and can take all
of this and implement it into your app.
You now went from having AI slap to a
fully designed, professionally built out
design system exactly to your liking. If
you want to take it further and you want
to refine it from here, edit things, you
can do that. You can go into your chat,
say change this, make this better,
change this color, I like this, I don't
like this, and make it even better for
your taste. This is the system you need
to be using, combining chat GPT image
gen, which is best in class and has
basically no limits whatsoever, using
that for your exploration and
refinement, moving it over to Claude
design so you can one-shot build out
some incredible designs.
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The video outlines a professional design workflow by combining the strengths of ChatGPT's image generation model and Claude's design tool. By using ChatGPT for iterative inspiration, exploration, and refinement, users can avoid hitting restrictive usage limits in Claude while creating high-quality design systems and prototypes. The process involves defining the brand direction in ChatGPT to generate assets, then importing those assets into Claude to build out functional UI kits and high-fidelity prototypes efficiently.
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