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I want to share a demo of a prototype I built in Codex without a coding background.
It’s a real working React prototype — with logic, states, forms, responsiveness.
The video is just a simple screen recording showing how it behaves.
Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring a new workflow: Figma → design system → Codex / Cursor → real coded prototype.
Honestly, it changes everything.
Curious to hear your thoughts
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Could Claude Design replace your first design sprint?
I tested Claude Design to build a Personal Financial dashboard interactive prototype — starting with nothing but plain language and rough Figma screenshots. Here's my honest take:
✨ What wowed me
The depth of product logic genuinely surprised me. It didn't just lay out components — it thought like a product designer. It generated an insight like "If you increase your monthly contributions by £100, you'd end up with £112K" in the relevant section. Something I hadn't even thought to include.
🟡 The icons and layout felt warm and considered from the very first generation.
🟡 It even brought a lightweight design system: edit/set your fonts and background, and it updates across the entire prototype.
🟡 And before building anything, Claude Design asks thoughtful questions about your colour choices, fonts, and intent, which genuinely helps you spend your tokens wisely.
🚧 What it can't replace yet
The interaction layer. Some interactions worked, some were just layout — and for a mid-fidelity prototype, I get it. But crucial interactions need to function. That said, I think Claude Code will eventually sort this out.
The verdict? Claude Design isn't replacing Figma or a senior product designer anytime soon — but the thoughtfulness it brings to the first draft is genuinely impressive.
Have you tried building a prototype with AI yet? What was your experience? 👇
♥️ Btw, if anyone's interested in the product, I'm actually close to the final version! Follow @clearday.financial.dashboard for updates, stay tuned! 👀
good job
5 months ago, a client came to me with a problem.
Not just "we need a B2B ordering portal."
More like – "we had a team build it. It didn't work. Can you start over?"
That's a different kind of brief.
I said yes, opened Figma, and started from scratch.
50+ unique screens for OXGroup, a full B2B dealer ordering platform. Every flow, every state, every edge case was designed properly before a single line of code was written.
Then the previous dev team was out. My team was in.
Backend devs. Frontend devs. Me, somehow, as the PM now.
That last part still feels new. I've spent years living in Figma. Coordinating a full dev team, keeping scope tight, making calls under pressure, different muscle entirely.
Turns out I don't hate it.
1 week of AI development later, we have a live, working demo. Built from my Figma file using Claude Code as the foundation.
4 weeks, we will have a live, fully functional platform we can give access to our customers.
We're not done. Automation testing is next, to catch everything before the client does. Then PostHog goes in, so we have real analytics from launch, not assumptions.
The lesson I keep coming back to:
Good design doesn't save a bad process. But a good process makes design unbreakable.
Got a product that didn't survive its first dev team?
💌 DM me. That's kind of our thing now.
ooh! can you share your link with us so we can try it out?
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