Creating a presentation from scratch typically involves wrestling with slide templates, formatting, and layout decisions. Claude Design handles all of this instantly. You describe what you need in plain language, and Claude generates a complete deck ready to present—no design skills required.
If your organization has set up a design system in Claude Design, your slides automatically apply your brand's colors, typography, and visual style. This ensures consistent branding across all presentations without manual tweaking, and eliminates the "this looks different from our other materials" problem.
Claude Design presentations are generated as interactive HTML rendered in the canvas, offering capabilities beyond static slide software. You can iterate, refine, and customize slides in real-time within the conversation, seeing changes instantly.
Teams at Anthropic are using Claude Design presentations for:
To create a presentation, simply describe what you need in your prompt. Be specific about your audience, key messages, and any organizational context that should influence the design.
Here are some prompts that work well:
Once Claude generates your initial presentation, you can edit it to match your exact needs.
You can request changes to specific slides by referencing them clearly in your message. For example: "On slide 3, change the headline to 'Market Opportunity' and rewrite the bullet points to focus on TAM."
Need more slides? Just ask. You can request entirely new slides with specific content, or ask Claude to expand a section into multiple slides for better pacing.
Claude Design can incorporate data visualizations directly into your slides. Describe the data you want to visualize and Claude will generate appropriate charts.
A benefit of presenting in HTML (vs. PPT) is that Claude Design can also create animations to storytell across your slides.
You can ask Claude to include images, logos, and other visual elements in your slides. If you're using a design system with approved imagery, Claude will pull from those assets automatically.
You can share your presentation with colleagues through the standard Claude sharing mechanism. The options are:
When multiple users have access, they can both chat with the agent together in a group chat-style interface.
Slides are exportable in the following ways:
Have questions about Claude Design presentations? Reach out to your Design Team or try building a deck yourself – most people find the workflow intuitive once they create their first one.