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how a side project turned into Claude Design

Ridd
August 04, 2026

Did you know Claude Design started off as a side project from one person 🤯

That's what this week's episode with Nate Parrott is all about… (you might remember him from our interview back when he was the founding designer at the Browser Company).

In this week’s episode he shares the origin story along with a ton of examples of how he's using Claude Design in his own workflow (spoiler: it got be tinkering with it again and it’s pretty impressive).

Some highlights:

Nate’s tips for getting the most out of Claude Design
Storytelling and communication tactics for designers
How Nate views the landscape for design tooling today
How “weatherman mode” turned into a killer voice mode
How Claude Design went from side project to launch in ~3 months
Examples of how Anthropic designers build artifacts across mediums

Watch on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇

👥 FEATURED RESOURCE

Backyard Designers

So Tommy challenged me to build a game for last week’s Dive Radio.

After exploring some lame paths I had an idea… what if Design Twitter mashed up with Backyard Baseball (my favorite game as a kid)?

So I built a V1 and demo’d it on our live show aaaand then it started going viral 🤣

so I kept building all weekend with Tommy and honestly it was one of the most creatively energizing projects of my life.

Software is content now. And we plan on exploring all the ways you can build community experiences in code :)

There are a ton of new updates in the yard (including a complete redesign) so I think you’ll enjoy clicking around 👇

https://backyarddesigners.club/

P.S. tune in on Thursday for Dive Radio—we’ll be showing the full behind-the-scenes of how we built the backyard :)

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCES

Component playground

I’m a big fan of Micka’s work so when he released this component playground I jumped all over it. Definitely worth a scroll/bookmark. Also you can totally build this for your own system in a few prompts!

The tower keeps rising

What is the longterm impact of loss of understanding as agents write (and interpret) all of our code? This is a quick read but fascinating thought exercise.

🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE

3 things I saved this week

1️⃣ Zine branding concept

I really enjoy this composition and for the sake of growing my own taste I should probably figure out why 😇

Check it out →

2️⃣ Magnet lover

I’m a big fan of the narrow max-width trend on a lot of websites today (ex: Open Code). But often they are technical and “clean” if you catch my drift. That’s why I love this Magnet Lover website. It’s everything I like about the narrow trend but incredibly playful.