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A bit of meta: Claude Design -> Claude Code or Codex.
IMO Claude Code almost feels like a hack for getting web-ish products off the ground. It does such a great job of making the UI mockups interactive and providing a great "base" that the agents can use. Once you get that "base" the way you want in Claude Design, export it, then literally just tell your agent "Hey, the exported design project is /at/this/path - read it and implement it". No it's seriously been that simple - either agent can handle it. From there, you can A/B test to see which agent you prefer. The better agent is going to depend on your project and your prompting.
Good luck :)
by ra0x3
You could also try Figma Make. Pretty good at making app concepts that are well designed, and you can try it out on a free plan.
by scrappy_guy
If you're non-technical and just wanting to play around with UI, I highly suggest you explore Claude Design. It's programming under the hood to make prototypes, but the coding is 100% hidden away from you. It can help you explore design ideas pretty quickly.
by leros
None that should matter to you. Maybe you should start with something cheaper instead of SOTA e.g. Deepseek, Mistral, etc. They're not as good but not as bad as some say either. These cheaper LLMs will allow you to experiment much more until you get some sort of workflow on using LLMs and the switch to the expensive ones.
by atmosx
For someone with a non-technical background who wants to have fun and ship MVPs quickly:
Codex if your priority is fast iteration, building from scratch, and staying in a conversational workflow.
Claude Code if you expect to spend a lot of time improving, extending, or maintaining larger projects.
If you eventually build products with thousands of lines of code, you'll likely find value in using both depending on the task.
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- A bit of meta: Claude Design -> Claude Code or Codex.
IMO Claude Code almost feels like a hack for getting web-ish products off the ground. It does such a great job of making the UI mockups interactive and providing a great "base" that the agents can use. Once you get that "base" the way you want in Claude Design, export it, then literally just tell your agent "Hey, the exported design project is /at/this/path - read it and implement it". No it's seriously been that simple - either agent can handle it. From there, you can A/B test to see which agent you prefer. The better agent is going to depend on your project and your prompting.
Good luck :)
by ra0x3 - You could also try Figma Make. Pretty good at making app concepts that are well designed, and you can try it out on a free plan.by scrappy_guy
- If you're non-technical and just wanting to play around with UI, I highly suggest you explore Claude Design. It's programming under the hood to make prototypes, but the coding is 100% hidden away from you. It can help you explore design ideas pretty quickly.by leros
- None that should matter to you. Maybe you should start with something cheaper instead of SOTA e.g. Deepseek, Mistral, etc. They're not as good but not as bad as some say either. These cheaper LLMs will allow you to experiment much more until you get some sort of workflow on using LLMs and the switch to the expensive ones.by atmosx
- For someone with a non-technical background who wants to have fun and ship MVPs quickly:
Codex if your priority is fast iteration, building from scratch, and staying in a conversational workflow.
Claude Code if you expect to spend a lot of time improving, extending, or maintaining larger projects.
If you eventually build products with thousands of lines of code, you'll likely find value in using both depending on the task.