Claude Design is Insanely Easy (even for beginners)

Most cloud design tutorials tell you to jump right in. Pick a template, give it a name, and just start prompting, which is not how cloud design is designed to work, pun intended, because you end up

with something incredibly generic and you waste even more time in tokens trying to save those unusable slides.

So, in this video, I'll show you how preparing three simple files ahead of time helps you go from disasters like this to polished visuals that look like this. And the best part is every

this. And the best part is every improvement you make carries over to all future designs. Let's get started. To

future designs. Let's get started. To

prove I'm not bullshitting you, this is the actual deck I recently used to run a paid workshop. And this is a

paid workshop. And this is a presentation I'm working on right now, which arguably looks even better. And

we're going to learn how to recreate this from scratch in [music] the next 10 to 15 minutes. And to do this, we're going to follow three simple steps.

First, we're going to create something called a design.md file in less than a minute from free and publicly available resources. Then, we'll use that

resources. Then, we'll use that design.mmd file to build something

design.mmd file to build something called a design system within claw design. And finally, we'll use that

design. And finally, we'll use that design system to create a reusable presentation template, one that matches your style and gets better every time you give it feedback. And even though

we're focusing on slides today, this workflow applies to any design. For

example, here are some carousel slides I made for social media. And here I have some onbrand visuals that I use in my newsletter and work email campaigns.

Kicking things off with input number one. Let's quickly go over what a

one. Let's quickly go over what a design.md file actually is. In plain

design.md file actually is. In plain

English, it's just a text file that serves as a rulebook for how a design should look and feel. The exact colors, the fonts, the spacing, and how things like buttons and cards get styled. This

file works in any AI tool. So Claw

Design is able to transform it into a design system that's native to Claw Design specifically. Sort of like taking

Design specifically. Sort of like taking a piece of software and optimizing it to run on a Mac instead of a Windows PC.

Now, we don't even need to write one from scratch because luckily for us, there's a public GitHub repository with the Design.mmd files from a bunch of

the Design.mmd files from a bunch of major brands. And don't worry, I'll drop

major brands. And don't worry, I'll drop a link to this down below. For today's

walkthrough, I'm just going to download Stripe's design.mmd file by clicking the

Stripe's design.mmd file by clicking the download button right here. And then

we're just going to head on over to chatgbt or any AI chatbot for that matter. Upload that design.mmd file. And

matter. Upload that design.mmd file. And

then we're going to use this prompt, which I'll also link down below. Uh

remove the proprietary content from this design file and replace them using your own judgment. Uh keep everything else

own judgment. Uh keep everything else exactly as is. And then we're just going to rename it to the subtle gradient design system. And we're just going to

design system. And we're just going to send this off. And while Chacht is processing, the reason we clean this file is because claw design won't directly copy a real brand's brand

guidelines, right? Obviously, so we

guidelines, right? Obviously, so we still need a file that's very detailed, but yet safe to use. Okay, trapt is done and it's given us a clean markdown copy

renamed to the subtle gradient design system. And we'll just click here to

system. And we'll just click here to download it for the next step. Moving on

to input number two, let's first quickly cover what a design system actually is.

Put simply, a design system is a style guide optimized for claw design where our raw design.mmd file is transformed into something clawed design can actually use. The colors, fonts, and

actually use. The colors, fonts, and logos all stay the same. It's now just formatted in a claw design friendly way.

So once the design system is built, anything we ask Claude Design to make from slides to carousels to one-off graphics comes out consistent and on brand without us ever having to

reexplain our look and feel. To kick

this off, we start a new chat in Claw Design. I'll first pick the latest Opus

Design. I'll first pick the latest Opus model that already does a great job without the token consumption of Fable.

Set the effort to max and go down here and click create design system. In the

first field, I write something simple like gradient design system, subtle, beautiful, and minimalistic as an example. [music] Now, don't be

example. [music] Now, don't be intimidated by all these other options.

We can just scroll straight to the bottom and upload the design file we made a minute ago. And that's it for now. This is going to take around 10 to

now. This is going to take around 10 to 20 minutes. But before I fast forward,

20 minutes. But before I fast forward, let me quickly explain what Claw Design is actually doing. Basically, it's

reading through the design. MD file we just uploaded and turning that into a real working rule book with mockups for us to review. It's pulling out every color, font, and spacing rule,

generating actual sample slides, and components so we can see the style in action and give feedback. All right,

cloud design is done, and that took around 15 minutes. First, we can ignore this checkbox up here since we're not working with a team. And if we just

scroll down a bit, we can see claw design has generated a bunch of mockups for us to review. And the reason why these already look pretty good is

because we started with a design.md

file. If there's something I want to change, I can just click the feedback button and describe it in plain English.

for example, replace the dark 900 color with this hex code from my own brand palette. Right? [music]

palette. Right? [music]

And we're going to fast forward this to about after a minute. We can see that Claw Design has swapped the original color for my preferred shade. This next

part is completely optional, but I'm just going to upload a few more things to customize our design system even further. For example, I can upload a

further. For example, I can upload a voice principles file. So any

copywriting down the road actually sounds like me. And I'll upload my actual business logo plus a few more icons I know I'll be using in my slide

decks again and again. And after all this is uploaded, I'll just tell Cloud Design, hey, I've uploaded a voice principles file so the copyrightiting will sound like me, my business logo,

and some commonly used icons. And I'm

just going to send this part off and we'll fast forward. All right, claw design has finished working and first we can see that my voice principles have

been baked in. No M dashes, no corporate jargon right for the ear. Okay. And

scrolling down a bit, we can see our logo and tool icons are now built into the design system as well. So every

future design can use all of these without me having ever to upload them again. Once we're happy with the design

again. Once we're happy with the design system, we'll say, "Go ahead and build a slide deck template for workshops and trainings. You pick the number of slides

trainings. You pick the number of slides and claw design will start building our slide deck [music] template." Which

brings us neatly to input number three.

And we'll start off by explaining what a template actually is. In plain English, it's a pre-built slide deck in your style that every new presentation starts from. Your title slide, your section

from. Your title slide, your section dividers, a two column layout, etc. All designed and ready to use. So to be clear, the design system is responsible

for how everything looks, your colors, fonts, and logos. The template, which is built from the design system, is responsible for how a deck is actually

laid out, which slides you have, and how they're arranged. And when you use them

they're arranged. And when you use them together, every new deck starts on brand and pre-structured instead of from a blank canvas. All right, back in Claude

blank canvas. All right, back in Claude Design, we can see that Claude has created the slide template for us. and

scrolling through this.

Although this already looks pretty good in my opinion, there's still definitely room for improvement since every single future slide presentation will reference this template. I'm not going to read

this template. I'm not going to read this word for word, but here's what I'm going to tell Claude. Edit based on my feedback. Add the gradient mesh to every

feedback. Add the gradient mesh to every single slide with a white background.

So, not just like the cover slides.

Don't use orange backgrounds for slides.

That was actually kind of ugly. scale up

the text to fill up the empty space. And

then let's add my logo to the bottom left footer. While Cloud Design is

left footer. While Cloud Design is processing all that, let's quickly walk through the navigation since it's not very intuitive. You can click the design

very intuitive. You can click the design system button to go back to the homepage. And if you want to see all the

homepage. And if you want to see all the files in this design system, we can actually click the drop-down all project files. And here we can see all the quote

files. And here we can see all the quote unquote like folders in this system. And

we can doubleclick templates and double click the workshop deck. And opening up the HTML file brings us back to the slide templates. And now I'm just going

slide templates. And now I'm just going to fast forward. All right, Claud's done. So let's review the template one

done. So let's review the template one more time. And yes, we can see all the

more time. And yes, we can see all the changes have been implemented. The

orange ugly slide has been removed, for example. And all right, looks good.

example. And all right, looks good.

We're finally ready to generate our first slide deck. Back on our quad design homepage, I'll first select the design system we just created. Then

select the corresponding slides template and I'll attach my uh talking points for an upcoming workshop. And this is just in simple markdown format. And we'll

send all this off by saying uh turn the attached talking points into a workshop deck and ask me anything you need before you build. Now, after just a few

you build. Now, after just a few seconds, Claw Design is going to pause and ask us a few questions first. And

it's very important you take the time to answer these carefully because a few extra minutes here saves you hours down the road. Believe me. And if you're

the road. Believe me. And if you're genuinely unsure of how to answer a question, you can always just pick the decide for me option. And once we've answered all the questions, we'll just

hit continue. and claw design will go

hit continue. and claw design will go ahead and generate the first version of the slide deck. Awesome. Now that our slides have been generated, I just want to reiterate the reason why this first

version already looks pretty good in my opinion is because of all the prep work we did. But we're not done because there

we did. But we're not done because there are two types of feedback we can give cloud design to make this even better.

The first kind of feedback applies to this current deck and every future deck we create in this cloud design project.

Oh, which reminds me, let's rename this project to something more descriptive, like active gradient slides project. And

now for the actual feedback. I feel like uh the eyebrow labels on the content slides aren't prominent enough, and the icons will look much better with

transparent backgrounds. So, here's what

transparent backgrounds. So, here's what I'm going to say. Review my feedback below, and in addition to making the edits, create a clawed MD file you'll read for all future slide decks. As for

the feedback, make the eyebrow labels more prominent. Wrap them in a

more prominent. Wrap them in a rectangular container maybe. And the

icons should all have transparent backgrounds. So, what did I just do? In

backgrounds. So, what did I just do? In

plain English, a claw.md is a plain text file where claw design stores all your standing instructions for a project and it reads that file before every new design. Meaning, every time I give it

design. Meaning, every time I give it feedback, claw design saves that feedback and applies it to all future decks. And that's how our corrections

decks. And that's how our corrections compound over time. By the way, if you like this idea of learnings that carry forward, my free co-work applies the exact same philosophy to Claude co-work.

It includes all the templates you need to build a co-workspace in just one week. Link down below. All right, the

week. Link down below. All right, the first round of feedback has been implemented and we can see that all our changes have been applied. The labels

have more contrast and the icons look much better. And if we go back to the

much better. And if we go back to the root page of this project, we can also see that claw design created the claw.md

file. And if we click in, we can see all the feedback has been captured. The

implication for you is instead of creating an entirely new project for your next presentation, we can just stay in the existing gradient slides project and start a new chat because this new

chat has access to everything in the cloud.MD file. So all your learnings

cloud.MD file. So all your learnings carry forward. Moving on, the second

carry forward. Moving on, the second kind of feedback is surgical slide level changes. And this is a perfect

changes. And this is a perfect opportunity to show off these features up here. First, I can make changes

up here. First, I can make changes myself by clicking the edit button, selecting an element like this agenda box, and then I can increase the font

size, change the color. Eh, that doesn't look very good. Let's change that back.

And make the text bold, for example.

Second, on this slide, I can click annotate and literally draw a circle around these two elements. Then type

something like add more visual contrast to differentiate what beginners versus power users will walk away with. And

we're just going to hit send and see what happens. And after a few seconds,

what happens. And after a few seconds, it made the change. This looks pretty great. Right now, moving on to the

great. Right now, moving on to the tweaks feature. And it's much easier to

tweaks feature. And it's much easier to show you instead of tell you what it does. I'm just going to say, give me two

does. I'm just going to say, give me two toggles. one to toggle my logo and one

toggles. one to toggle my logo and one to show slide numbers in the bottom right. And we're just going to fast

right. And we're just going to fast forward this next part here. Now, at

first you might be confused because nothing seemed to have happened. But if

we click the tweaks icon again, we can see our two toggles have appeared. So if

I toggle off show logo, the logo disappears from every slide at once. And

if I turn on show slide numbers, they appear across every slide. And I can even save this as a default. As a quick recap, a tweak is just a switch for a decision that shows up all over your

deck, like whether your logo appears on every slide. So, use edit and annotate

every slide. So, use edit and annotate to fix one thing in one place. And use

tweaks when a single decision touches every slide at once and you want to flip between options before committing. Now

that our slide deck is finalized, we can click the share button in the top right.

And in addition to PowerPoint and PDF, we can click more formats and apps. And

personally, I like to export to a standalone HTML file because of how versatile it is. To show you what I mean, once you download the standalone

HTML file, you can double click to open that in any browser and it'll work like so. And anyone you send this file to can

so. And anyone you send this file to can open up in their browser as well.

Exporting to HTML also gives you some advanced options. I'm not going to spend

advanced options. I'm not going to spend too much time on this today, but to give you an idea, this is the real deck I used in a paid workshop recently. And

you'll notice I asked Claw Design to add a presenter view button that I can click and it'll open up a speaker notes for me that I can interact with, which is

pretty freaking awesome. If you found this tutorial helpful, I recommend checking out my Claude co-work playlist next. See you on the next video. In the

next. See you on the next video. In the

meantime, have a great one.