Claude Design is small. A SKILL.md plus a handful of references that Claude loads when the ask sounds like design — a deck, a landing page, a prototype, a poster.
Once loaded, it rewires the defaults. Fact-verification before assumption. Real brand assets before colours and fonts. Three directions offered before commitment. That's it. No magic, just discipline.
printed in 2 colours on recycled defaults. the crooked lines are on purpose. the emoji are not missing — they were never invited.
When a product is named, WebSearch comes before design. 10 seconds beats 1–2 hours of rework. Hard rule. No exceptions, no hedging.
Ask → search → download → verify → freeze. Logo, product shots, UI screenshots first. Colours and fonts second. Skip the first three and every brand looks the same.
When the brief is too vague, pick three from ten philosophies across five schools. Build a tiny preview. Wait for the user. Then go all-in.