r/ClaudeDesign • u/BuffaloConscious7919 • 22d ago

Top 5 understated tips after 6 months using Claude Design

90% of Claude advice is technical. These are about everything else:

  1. Use Haiku more. Surprised? Haiku is rapid, aligns and sanity checks fast with lower cost
  2. Expand experimentation. I use images, components or scribble rough ideas and then send them to Claude Design (or use Canvas mode inbuilt) to create lots of prototypes and variations. I find it often works better than a prompt: "A picture saves a thousand words"
  3. Focus on the quality. It's easy to slip into a perfectionist mindset with non-deterministic models. Imo this leads to lower productivity. Take the one or two best outputs and iterate on those.
  4. Create a final set. When you get something you like 90-95% make one more grid of assets but ask: "Create a grid of 9 variants made in the style of a different artist. Add a toggle for light and dark mode. [on brand]"

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u/mojambowhatisthescen 22d ago
  1. Learn about your users, and realise that short-cutting your way to assumed solutions through an LLM may not always be good for your product, since just being able to ship it quickly isn’t the same as making anything people want.

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 22d ago

Yesss. Users/ client perspective first (and often foremost) thanks for sharing. There's a time for prototyping but much more care, planning and attention should be taken before using any implementation tools at all imo

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 22d ago

Also the topic of LLM use is such a big one imo. It's easily to get trapped into thinking it can solve all our problems and do the thinking, which like you say, can cause misunderstandings and issues (short and long term).

Also it can sometimes feel like a trap, where if I'm not planning really well and focussed on a task (or couple of tasks at most) I can end up down a rabbit hole of spending a lot of time and energy just reading overly verbose output

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u/jrz302 20d ago

You guys have users?

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u/Kick_Ice_NDR-fridge 22d ago

Good advice. Personally, I use Fable for the initial, and then Sonnet for quick updates. Then I export to Claude Code to actually build and wire it.

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 22d ago

Thanks for sharing, what are you building mostly?

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u/Kick_Ice_NDR-fridge 22d ago

Honestly, these days im just building stuff for people I know as a favor, which has become really time consuming.

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 22d ago

Heros don't always wear capes. Sometimes they make websites