Alex

Design systems @ Anthropic

[Meaghan @meaghaneschoi]

ICYMI the Claude Desktop app just got a facelift. With a new set of icons, a simplified type system and a ton more details that create a UI more focused on your work with Claude.

@aaandeverything @khalilcader @daniel__designs +jmr for sweating the details

[Ben Blumenrose @benblumenrose]

“Is this worth my time? Does this bring me productivity, joy, or calm? I think these are the questions design has always helped answer.”

Thank you to @joellewenstein and the @AnthropicAI design team for opening up about how you work, the challenges you face, and how you see the role of design evolving on product teams.

Our latest AI in Design case study with Anthropic below!

00:00 Design at AI speed

01:43 The precursor to Claude Design

03:28 From user researcher to builder

05:09 Treating code as clay

08:09 A new rhythm for collaboration

09:22 What’s worth building

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family.

It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.

[Kevin Ngo @kevin_t_ngo]

Claude Opus 5.5 drew every frame of this animation in JavaScript.

Everyone in town sends Claude their requests, but one girl sends a question instead: "What do you love?"

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@pranathiperii Watching you work on this was a joy. So many small details that make this product come together!

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@mitchellh @bcherny Final update here to say the sidebar button is back where it should be.

[Pran @pranathiperii]

my first biiiiiig launch at anthropic is finally here!! 🫶

projects are a huge labor of love from the claude code team - it's the only way i've been working with claude for the last several months (including using projects...to build projects!!)

spam the coordinator with any and all tasks you have on the fly, and watch claude smartly delegate your work to threads and report back to you with only the things that need your attention. enjoy <33

[Marius Schulz @mariusschulz]

A great overview of everything that goes into creating a digital font. Also, what a beautiful website!

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@mitchellh @bcherny I’d have it replace the Claude logo on hover but it creates too much movement and we’re trying to make the UI as stable and predictable as possible. That said I have some ideas for how we could get around this in future iterations for the sidebar stay tuned!

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@bcherny @mitchellh Yes cmd + . Dusan that’s right. Mitchell agree with you and on desktop we’ve managed to keep it in one place but on web it’s a little harder with “Claude” taking the top left spot. Given you can hover to peek though, what’s the use case for opening and closing straight away?

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@mitchellh This should be fixed for you now. The right edge of the sidebar is also clickable if you want to collapse faster (or cmd + .)

[Alex @aaandeverything]

So happy to be finally bringing Cowork’s power to a single unified chat experience with a beautiful cleaned up UI.

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@mitchellh Can’t blame Claude, this one’s mine! Fix incoming!

[Anthony Morris ツ @amorriscode]

Today we're launching a rebuilt version of Claude Code on desktop.

The app has been redesigned for the ground up to make it easier than ever to parallelize work with Claude.

I haven't opened an IDE or terminal in weeks. Excited for you all to give it a shot!

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@neversitdull This will be fixed soon!

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude can now build interactive charts and diagrams, directly in the chat.

Available today in beta on all plans, including free.

Try it out: https://t.co/tHPAZRgQkn

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@__bhavishya @AnthropicAI It's in the plus menu!

[Alex @aaandeverything]

@elias_ochako @jennywen @AnthropicAI Are you using the desktop app?

[Alex @aaandeverything]

Loved working on this with some of the most thoughtful people I've worked with. Also thanks Claude... Claude helped a lot 🙃

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We've done some spring cleaning.

The Claude interface is now more refined, thanks to your feedback.