New module just dropped in Implementation Playbooks. Claude Design: Folder Structure as a Design System Anthropic released Claude Design. It builds brand design systems, slide decks, prototypes, and animated content from your existing assets. Underneath the interface it is Claude Code, skills, and a folder structure. If that sounds familiar, it should. It is a refined version of what we have been building in this community. This module covers three things: 1. How Claude Design actually works, what it does well, and where it burns tokens fast. 2. How to export the design system it builds and run it locally in Claude Code or VS Code. 3. *Lightly Touches* on how to swap in open source models like Qwen 3 Coder Next, Code Gemma, Devstral, or DeepSeek Coder V2 when you hit usage limits or want to cut costs. Claude Design is not a replacement for the workflow you have been learning. It is proof the workflow is correct. The people who built Claude Design are solving the same problem with the same tools as you are here. The difference is you now have a head start, because you already understand folder structure, skills, and routing. If you are new here, start with Foundation Lesson 2 for the history, Lesson 4 for the install, and Implementation Playbook Module 1 for the animation builds that predate all of this. Watch the video. Build your own system this week. Post your folder structure in the community. Claude Design: Folder Structure as a Design System - Implementation Playbooks · Clief Notes

Second Monday. Second winner. Let's keep it going. @Alex Nartey topped the 7-day leaderboard with +191 points and earned himself free lifetime Premium access. 71 total contributions to this community. Not lurking. Not watching from the sideline. Showing up in the comments on Jake's posts, Matt's posts, other members' posts. Adding to the conversation. Engaging with the work. That's what the leaderboard actually measures. Participation that helps other people learn. Alex wasn't farming points. He was in the threads doing the thing that makes this community worth being in. 🎉 @Alex Nartey congratulations. You earned it. The leaderboard resets now. New week. New race. Whoever is on top next Monday morning gets the same deal. Free lifetime Premium. Already a paying VIP member? We'll upgrade you to free lifetime VIP. See you next Monday!!

This post was inspired by @Samuel Albert - Earlier today, I was watching series of AI related videos on YouTube trying to understand a particular concept. So much was coming at me at the same time and it was so overwhelming that my head began to hurt. Literally. I had this surge of intense feeling I was missing out. I had to cut it off, quick!. I closed all tabs and reminded myself to take it easy. Samuel’s response to one of my posts reminded me of that incident and I feel I should share more on this. My advice to everyone here is to protect your mind and don’t get overwhelmed. 1) If you aren’t used to the tech terms and the AI ecosystem -> When you see a new word or term or service, you can quickly google it for definitions only. For the ones that really resonates, you can go a bit further by watching a short video. Just take it one step at a time. Trust me you are not missing out and in a few weeks you’d catch up. There’s also nothing wrong with asking the writer for clarity. The people in this community are always looking to help. 2) If you are familiar -> The things you know already can do a lot for you. Pace yourself with learning. Find a balance with doing what you already know and learning new stuff. Thanks to @Jake Van Clief we have a structure that makes work more efficient. Don’t get overwhelmed. Try to make what you already know produce results for you, while you structure your learning. 3) If you post content here -> A soft reminder to always make your content easy to understand as much as possible . (I’m taking notes too) All the best!

Hey guys, I’ve not personally tried Claude Design yet, but I’ve seen what it can do through other people’s presentations on YouTube. Quite interesting. It runs purely on code and that’s smart because code is cheap right now. It also works with your design system to create tailored experiences. This part is an opportunity for designers to actually sell their services. Creating a custom design system that businesses can use in Claude design will be a valuable service. Of course, Claude can create a design system for you but you’ll quickly realize that you are better off in the long run creating yours and there are businesses that prefer a human touch. I started my career in brand design so I did a lot of brand guidelines, design systems and other corporate identity / UX related work. So this is my forte and there’s a lot to exploit here as I can see. Have you used Claude Design? What are your thoughts? Feel free to share your work if applicable. Cheers!

I’ll be honest: I joined this community looking for a library of magic prompts to copy and paste. But after looking through the lessons, I realized I’ve been approaching AI entirely wrong. My biggest takeaway before even starting Lesson 1: Most "AI influencers" teach you how to talk to a chatbot. This community is teaching us how to build a Compute System. Why I’m hitting the "Reset" button: - Systems over Hacks: I realized a "perfect prompt" is useless if the folder architecture underneath it is a mess. - Logic over Vibes: I’m stopping the "random chatting" and committing to the Computing Fundamentals first. - The Long Game: I want to build methods that "last a decade," not just until the next model update. Question for @Jake Van Clief (or the veterans): For someone starting from zero with the folder logic, should I focus on cleaning up my existing messy projects first, or is it better to start a brand new project from scratch? To the other new members: Let’s stop chasing the "shiny" tools and actually learn the plumbing.