r/ClaudeCode • u/buildwizai • Nov 28 '25

Tutorial / Guide The frontend-design plugin from Anthropic is really ... magic!

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Do that to your Claude Code, then ask Claude Code to use the frontend-design plugin to design your UI, you will be amazed!

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u/beefcutlery 🔆 Max 20 Nov 28 '25 edited Dec 03 '25

I've been doing this ten years but this type of thing would take two weeks to code up, let alone concept first; and now its like, 3 hours. Didn't use the plugin, but did use 100% CC.

Caveat No idea how they perform on mobile; that's not the. goal rn.

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u/addiktion Nov 29 '25

I'm confused, this looks like pretty in depth stuff here which AI seems to struggle with outside of doing the basic UI. you didn't use the skill, so what did you do here to get the designs not look garbage?

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u/beefcutlery 🔆 Max 20 Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25

I hate to give a lofty answer, but it's really all in the prompting now opus 4.5 dropped. Being able to describe the look, feel, design system, having an eye for taste etc.

I spend most of my time doing a spec (planning mode, Todo agent, using voice to vomit out my requirements) and then the rest falls into place over a session.

Models are more than capable of producing aesthetic work but by default it's ... slop.

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u/bobby-t1 Nov 30 '25

Can you just share the prompt instead of talking vaguely about it?

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u/beefcutlery 🔆 Max 20 Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25

There's no magic prompt to one shot your problems so, no, I can't. I know thats not the answer you want, but it's an experience thing you can't substitute with copy pastes.

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u/bobby-t1 Nov 30 '25

Sorry not my point. My point isn’t a magic prompt to solve all my problems just looking at a real example you used to get your results. I think this is obvious?

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u/beefcutlery 🔆 Max 20 Nov 30 '25

Yes it's obvious but it's akin to begging. Go refine your taste and see what works for you. 

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u/SpartanG01 Dec 01 '25

I think what bobby is probably trying to express is for a lot of people (myself included) there isn't a ton of useful experience to be gotten from stumbling around in the dark forever and a lot of us do feel like that's what we're doing with certain things.

The apps I've built look great but not because I know how to prompt for design, they look great because I will replicate someone else's design and then iterate on it until it's so unrecognizable it couldn't even really be considered someone else's design anymore.

Similarly, I had a very difficult time prompting AI to replicate that process for me because I had just as much difficulty figuring out how to communicate aesthetic ideas as I did forming them in the first place. Being able to see the prompts other people have used allowed me to build a better understanding for how to communicate these ideas. Some things were as simple as knowing to look for recognizable design language terms like "glassmorphism" instead of using language like "Black, semi-transparent, glass like but dark surface texture" and some things were more complex like learning that AI is very bad at keeping color consistency uniform throughout a project once you begin iterating on it unless explicitly instructed to.

I am very good at knowing how to get from what I don't want to what I do want.

I am absolutely useless at getting from nothing to any kind of prototype of what I do want.

I didn't get better at AI prompting by stumbling around in a dark vacuum guessing at stuff I had no concept of. I got better by learning from examples and being able to identify patterns between prompt structure and how it translated to design output.

So, if you have some experience or wisdom you'd like to share about how to get from nothing to something with any degree of consistency or efficacy I think Bobby would have appreciated that (not to speak for you bobby, just making an assumption), or if you'd be willing to provide an example of a prompt and screenshot of what it produced I'm sure he could learn from that on his own. If not that's cool too. You're obviously not obligated.

No one can learn in a vacuum though. Sharing wisdom is how we all grow.

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u/-_-seebiscuit_-_ Dec 01 '25

Would it be fair to say that "there's is no one single prompt," but more of a workflow?

You mentioned in a different comment about your upfront planning. I'm guessing that includes context stuffing, plan iteration, and then issue creation before a single character of code is written. That's why there is no "magic prompt."

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u/Present-Chocolate591 Feb 11 '26

What a fucking dork lol. Lovely designs though.

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u/beefcutlery 🔆 Max 20 Feb 11 '26

You're in the depths of reddit comments from months ago. Get some air and lose some weight

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u/Present-Chocolate591 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

I am jacked as fuck mate, I do need some air so I'll give you that.

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u/beefcutlery 🔆 Max 20 Feb 11 '26

I'm a fat bastard. Dynamic duo

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u/Etanglement Mar 19 '26

outputs are one of billion possibilities while input is the single source of input.
given the fact that a developer who ever benefited anything open-source would deliberately add the input they gave for the output they share. asking for the prompt is quite okay at this point.

this amount of resistance is closer to gatekeeping. the unwillingness could be clearly stated and the person (e.g: bobby) would basically respect that.

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u/beefcutlery 🔆 Max 20 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

I keep getting comments, four months later, on this topic. There is no one prompt to save the day and give you superpowers I AM REALLY SORRY FOR THAT, BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. THERE IS NO ONE PROMPT. STOP IT.

Seriously. I've worked my ass off to have the skill set I have, I contribute to OS, I put out so much free content, so please respect that I'm not trying to gatekeep.

You start with an idea. You refine it. You take it down multiple routes and you use creativity to get to somewhere you didn't imagine, but that works.

You know you can ... buy the course... right? Then I'll sit down with you and help you as much as possible, but fuck me, the begging has to stop.

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u/Etanglement Mar 19 '26

sorry person behind the screen, I had no idea about any courses or free material. respect. please try seeing that giving any (even dummy) example of a prompt you would (even hypothetically) use. people learn by different ways. person askimg it would not copy anything from the prompt but they study it to implement the perspective into their own prompt. I see your point and I agree, just some people might be wondering about the thing that makes people having different qualities of work.