Claude Design Is Not a Design Systems Tool. That's Okay.

A design systems practitioner's honest read on what it is, what it isn't, and where Figma actually sits in this picture.

Claude Design has been out for a few days, and I spent the better part of three or four hours testing it against the kind of work I actually do. Not generic landing pages. Not pitch decks. Design systems work.

I uploaded two design systems. The first was Altitude, our internal system with a comprehensive Figma file and a coded component library on GitHub…