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Nate Parrott

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Designer at Anthropic who started Claude Design; earlier a founding designer at The Browser Company.

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  1. Our readingModels are very good at busy work but not at the actual ideas and design thinking, so good ideas are the currency these days.

    design

    Their wordsthe models are really really good at doing the sort of busy work of moving things around and piecing things together and turning ideas into different formats, but they're not so good at the actual ideas and the design thinking. And so what I can do as a designer is I found that I spend a lot more of my time just like going on long walks and like recording voice notes and like thinking to myself because the good ideas are the currency these days.

    ↗Nate Parrott - How a Side Project Became Claude Designyoutube.com 11th of 19 in this recording

  3. Our readingDon't ask Claude for a design without context: give it as much context as you can, be prescriptive, and don't trust it to be an amazing designer on its own.

    Anthropicdesign

    Their wordsdon't just ask Claude to like make you a design without giving it any context. Give it as much context as you can. And ideally be pretty prescriptive about what you want to get out and let Claude do the hard work of mocking it up and coding it. But like don't trust Claude to be an amazing designer and do all the work for you.

    ↗Nate Parrott - How a Side Project Became Claude Designyoutube.com 15th of 19 in this recording

  5. Our readingWhere Claude is weak, as with animation timing, ask it to build you a tool so you can dial it in yourself.

    Anthropic

    Their wordsAsk for tweaks, especially in areas where you see Claude is not very good at figuring it out right off the bat. So, for example, if you're trying to make animations or you're trying to make really dialed in visual interactions, Claude is not very great at doing things like timing or figuring out things like spring parameters or animations because it can't see video. It can only see screenshots. So, instead, if you're finding that Claude is having a lot of trouble at that, say, "Hey, Claude, make me a tool so that I can dial this in myself.

    ↗Nate Parrott - How a Side Project Became Claude Designyoutube.com 16th of 19 in this recording

  7. Our readingVoice is the best way to give Claude much more context faster, and it gives better results.

    Anthropic

    Their wordsUse voice. I'm a huge voice fan. Uh, this sort of goes along with the rule that you get out what you put in. If you give yourself the self the tools to give Claude much more context faster and voice is the best way to do that. I found you will get much better results and you'll just have a better time.

    ↗Nate Parrott - How a Side Project Became Claude Designyoutube.com 17th of 19 in this recording