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Okay, that did take about 10 minutes but we have got Lenny Doc, the chat PRD competitor by my friend and partner Lenny. And you can see here it really did match some of his general branding from the Lenny's newsletter. So colors look right, logo looks right. I will tell you the number one Claude design slop tell is it loves an italicized serif font. It loves this in a landing page. But it's pretty good. And I would say, you know, if, if Lenny was going to make something, it would look much more like this versus what the chat PRD brand looks like. So I don't think this is too far off and it's done some great stuff here. It's been a prototype of a starter component, it's pulled in some value propositions, it's shown what the chat looks like. It even put in some content marketing here. So I gotta be really careful pulling Lenny's content. And then we have to call out the ability to do tweaks and versions in Claude design. So because I asked for three versions, it's going to have these tweaks that it can do. Do you want an operator headline? Do you want blunt headline? Do you want a question headline? Oh, I love what would Lenny do? Hero layout. I asked for centered so I want centered. Although that looks too much like his newsletter. So I'm going to go with sidemark background. Do we want this nice cream or white? I like white. What's the primary cta? We're growth people here. We do try it free. We love plgmotion. And then do you want on or off the product pass bundle? Do you want a pricing section? I think this is so fun and imagine just being able to iterate so quickly with this design. I really like it. A couple other things that you might miss in cloud design that I think are nice, you can comment on specific components. Let's say I think this CTA is pretty bad. I can say improve the CTA text, send that to Claude. Claude's gonna improve that. I can draw, do circles on things, add notes, call out things. So it is a really natural way to interact with a design. It's kind of the best of a prototype invision when we used to have that of commenting A figjam, a figma comments, all that kind of stuff. But here with AI that can actually make those changes for you. And I think the design went pretty well. Now this is an example of something pretty straightforward. Again, I think it's better at marketing style design. These kind of components that you see here that are more like landing cage components than the UX design. I found that it doesn't quite reason with design systems and user experience components and app components as well as. But I think this did a pretty good job. Another use case that I think is really interesting is Claud Design can make slides. So I chose that landing page Lenny's newsletter design system and I actually dropped my OpenClaw article that I wrote for the newsletter in as a PDF and I said let's build a deck teaching people how to set up OpenClaw based on this article. And this is where I think it really shines. It looked at the design system, looked at the content and built a really nice presentation for me to present OpenClaw and how to set it up. And you can see here it just looks really nice. And so if you're someone that has to put together decks for customers, you have to put together instructional material and you really want that to match your branding. I think product marketers, you really need to pay attention for things like training, enablement and customer decks. I really think this does a very nice and elegant job of designing a deck and even look at this. I had a command in the terminal as part of my article and it actually put in a really cute fake terminal here with a little blinker. And this is the fun parts of the Claude design. Slides is they're actually just code behind the scenes. I think this might be where we're going with slides overall is slides just end up being code like everything else. And so you can get these cute little design elements that I think are really delightful and fun in the app. So if you're looking for a really practical use case where I think it does quite well, take straight content and turn it into a beautiful deck matching your brand. And then my final very important cloud design use case, it gets very fun to imagine crazy versions of your web experience or website when you give Claude design no design system, it does the best. So I asked Claude to make a 90s Geocities style version of the Lenny's newsletter homepage. It did that. It is called Lenny's Product Zone and it is pretty incredible. And even the tweaks component that we had that was so nice in the polished landing Page version is now real ugly. I'm going with bricks, I'm going with Comic Sans of course, and I want all the things. So I'm gonna leave all these tweaks here and look at this beauty. Your okrs are cringe and seven ways to fix them before Q3 and this is a secret power of Claude design. It writes exceptional copy. So if you let it run on copy, which is such an underappreciated part of building a great prototype or design, it's going to do a really, really good job. And so I highly recommend finding a reference style. Jamie Gannon makes a really good point on this in her episode of How AI Is. If you understand reference styles, you can reference and explain what you want. But let it go pretty wild without a design system and then you will get very, very cool designs. So I'm going to, as soon as Lenny gives me access to his GitHub, kind of push this right up. I think it's going to convert, convert like crazy. So let's ask him to ship it right in the comments if you think this is what Lenny should redesign his website to. So those are my three cloud design use cases. Import your design system and create a new more marketing style landing page. Use content plus your design system to create really really beautiful slides and then go ham on an ugly redesign of your website or ugly or beautiful depending on what you think. And fax us at 1-800-product which is exactly what this landing page says is the way to get in touch with my friend Lenny if you think he should shoot ship Lenny's product zone okay, I just want to show you two more things really quickly before we go. And those things are how I think you can use the new GPT image model 2 to get some brand work and also some fun image work done. Okay, so just today ChatGPT OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 model which is new era of image generation. It is the first model that can do thinking and they've really focused on text and the ability to render text and objects accurately. And I just wanted to show you two use cases that I think are pretty interesting and how well I think the new image model from OpenAI performs. The first one is kind of back to what we were talking about before which is brand and I saw this prompt on X and I I copied it for chat PRD to see what we would get and it's basically the idea of creating one of those multi page brand kits for your company. So I asked it to create it for My company, Chat prd. I just gave some general kind of brand design guidance off this. I had Chat GPT write this for me and asked it to generate it. And what I will say is it did a really lovely job in terms of text. It doesn't have that classic like GPT image text look to it. So typography has gotten a little bit better. I think the. It's kind of amazing. It can do this 9 grid layout of different parts of the brand kit. And I don't think it's bad, it's just not me. And so I loaded up some images from midjourney here that I think we use more in our brand kit. And I say that's not really us. Here are some reference images. Update the brand kit and let's see what it does with that. I'm going to make it create an image, hopefully. I'm hoping it should read these images, which are much brighter, much pinker, have this like, sort of pixelated feel to them, and create a brand kit that looks more like what I would want to use. And I think this is just such a neat workflow. I've heard a lot from people that they're really dissatisfied with the current image models for marketing purposes because it requires so much bringing together of images and text and typography and voice. And while I think something like a claw design obviously can do that well at the web asset level, sometimes you want it at the brand or image asset level. And I think it's really interesting to see If GPT image 2 can do this. So let's see what it generates. It's finishing up right now. Let's see how pink it is. And if we love it. Oh my gosh, I actually really love it. It makes me so happy. As you can see, it took in this like, sort of pixelated landscape images that we've been using for Chat prd. It is certainly more pink and it has given me kind of a new idea of what we could do with this brand kit. Now we got an amazing brand kit done by designers. I think it's probably scientifically five to 50 times better than this. But if you were looking for somewhere to start, I think that GPT image 2 is quite good at this. And this doesn't have that very obvious AI image text tell on the typography. And I think something like this is a really great starting point for folks that are trying to get images done. And then finally, one last fun use case, it just finishes, finished over here, which is taking my image and doing my Color analysis for. For the boys in the room. This is something that the ladies often do to figure out what colors look best on what they're wearing. And so I uploaded a photo and asked GPT image 1, image 2 to make me a color analysis. And it gave me warm neutral. My best colors are these earthy, warm colors. And even put me in those colors here, down here. Now, my face got real weird towards the bottom. My teeth are looking kind of funk over here. But overall, I would say this is pretty impressive. This is something that people spend a lot of time putting together for folks. Now, what I would say, GPT2 is I am actually a dark winter. So I might come in here and say, no, I'm a dark winter. You are just confused by my old highlights. My hair looks much blonder in the picture than it naturally is. It's actually very dark. And so let's see if it reminds us to my exact color palette. But again, think about the combination of text, color, image analysis, layout. Quite lovely. And I haven't seen a model do this kind of layout work effectively. You know, I think Nano Banana had gotten close with infographics and things like this, but we might actually switch some of our infographics and graphic Generation over to GBT Image 2 because I think it just looks a little bit more expensive and a little nicer. All right, here we go. This actually looks really great. This is the correct color analysis for me. My natural hair color is actually the one in the middle. Don't tell anybody. And these are the colors. Now, again, my face gets really weird down here and I would never wear these clothes. I am not a business lady. I am a hacker podcaster. But in terms of the colors, in terms of the layout, in terms of the photography, the typography, this is pretty impressive. And I would pay a lot of money for somebody to do this for me. So if you're looking for a fun Mother's Day gift out there, take a photo of your lady, one where she's looking good and throw it in here and ask for her color analysis and then buy that person some jewelry. All right, so this is the Design focused Spring 2026 drop. We looked at quad design and how good it is at importing design systems, creating marketing style, landing pages and slide decks, and then translating your current website into something a little bit more fun. We looked at the New GPT Model, GPT Image 2. Two things I think it's really, really good at layout and typography. It has really nailed those things and has also just up leveled the quality design because this is the first image model that really does some thinking. I think it's great. And we talked about Google's Design MD standard, which they're trying to make the standard way for agents to understand your design system and brand. It's been a really exciting week. The end of the day, I don't think any of these tools are dead yet. They all have their benefits, they're all slow and they're all making me top up my tokens. I'll see you soon where we'll look at all the new AI tools. And until next time, hope you have fun building.

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