# "It Was Like a Drug Trip": A Designer's First Day with Claude Code Channel: Clipboard Dev Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3Rd_mS_oc Duration: 5 min Language: English Words: 923 Transcript page: https://viewrankai.com/tools/youtube-transcript/IU3Rd_mS_oc --- [0:00] Yeah, sure. So, I started using Claude in I think I think near the end of January. Um Okay. I think I was kind of putting it off a little bit. I was just kind of being caught my ways. I'm like I'm like I was still using Figma and I didn't want to deviate from that. And I don't know why I just did the one day like Adam was trying to convince me to get in on it like cuz he was using Claude for code and um but he just set me up with an environment like I I talk about this in the video like I the [0:34] terminal is very new to me. Um, like I know how to change directories now and I know how to navigate around it a little bit, but it still feels very foreign to me and I I do have to give those guys a call on Tupal quite a bit saying uh like I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am. Can you help me navigate this? And yeah, uh but he set me up with this like this [0:56] V project and install the dependencies. He like he walked me in through all that stuff and then um and then I just started prompting and I'm like this is like I was just talking to it like it was a human and saying like it's like I was I'm standing behind a developer telling it to nudge pixels this way or that way except it's not getting annoyed [1:15] with me. And [laughter] and uh dude it was it was like a drug trip that day. Like the first time I ever did that, I'm like, "Wow, this is in wild." Yeah. How it's how quick I can work right now. And um and I mean, if you've watched the video, it that's that's just my workflow. It's um I I'm just it I always get it to I always like get it to generate a sort of a a base sort of layout. I mean, a lot of the stuff I'm doing right now, it's like they're just they're not real projects. They're like fake UI. So, what I the first thing I did is I'll get like [2:02] chat GPT to make me like an initial prompt of like I'll just describe I need an app for and I'll just make up a thing for this type of product and uh can you generate a prompt and then I'll plop that into Claude and and it'll give me my first draft and then I'll just go and I'll just use it [2:21] like I use Figma. I'll just like move. But the the the thing I find so efficient is like it generates all the placeholder content and stuff. Like if I were to make something like that in Figma, it's like I just getting the the base design in without tinkering with the the the cosmetic stuff would take a long period of time. Like just making a a table and uh I'm not sure if you use Figma a lot, but like [2:49] not a lot. I'm familiar with it though. Yeah. But if like you're like if you want to make a table and you want to like inject auto layout into it and like that's just like it's kind of a headache and with with quad I can just yeah say make a table and then now I can start tinkering to say hey like make the the padding between rows a bit wider or you know I'll just kind of goldilocks it a bit make it a bit bigger make it a bit smaller okay you know and um I just work at it bit by bit until I'm happy with it but then as I'm [3:20] working too. It's like it's it's learning from all the changes I make. So, if I'm working on a a marketing page Yeah. and I work I usually work from like top down. So, I'll start on the navbar and I'll make the hero and then I'll do like a feature section. That feature section will have the way the it's titled there. The way like the the title section work and then it'll just it'll kind of learn from that as it goes. So, as I make new changes, it'll just refer to what I did. So it gets to a point it gets easier and easier as I [3:49] am building out a page. Yeah. I found um that's this is fascinating to me because in the programming community one of the kind of conversations we're having is do you feel like the thing you loved doing is no longer yours to do because AI is doing it for you. And for a lot of folks that you know what they're missing is typing syntax right typing code in. And I'm already seeing a difference here where you're like, what I loved doing was not setting up auto layout in Figma and putting placeholder content in Figma, right? What you loved doing was and still love is creating the idea what the design looks like, not [4:22] clicking buttons to to actually represent that design of the page, right? So, you're still getting to envision and communicate a design. It's just you have a different set of tools that has some conveniences. So, you're doing less manual crap in doing that. Am I hearing that right? Yes. I feel like it's only --- About this transcript Read from YouTube's own caption track and laid out by ViewRank AI (https://viewrankai.com). ViewRank AI finds the videos already beating a creator's own average on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, transcribes them from the audio itself in more than 60 languages, and turns what worked into new ideas and scripts. Free transcript tools, no account needed: https://viewrankai.com/tools How to read any video this way: https://viewrankai.com/llms.txt