TL;DR: Anthropic will close the standalone Claude Design site (claude.ai/design) on December 14, 2026, because Claude Design now works inside the regular Claude app. Design systems can be migrated today. Projects stay in the old site for now, with no bulk export. Chats, comments and public project links don’t carry over and stop working or get deleted after the closing date. If anyone on your team made mockups, decks or one-pagers there, plan the move now.

What happened

Anthropic’s help center now says “Claude Design now lives in Claude.” New designs, design systems and slide decks are created as artifacts inside the Claude app, and Anthropic’s product page says Claude Design works in any conversation, including in Claude Code and the Artifacts tab. The standalone site at claude.ai/design stays open until December 14, 2026. After that, the address sends you to Claude.

The date isn’t brand new; Anthropic’s migration guide has carried it for over a week. What’s new is the reminder: a recent Claude Code release (version 2.1.302) added a notice to its /design-sync and /design-login commands saying the standalone site “closes by December 14, 2026.”

Claude Design is available on the Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, so this affects solo users too, not only companies.

Why it matters

Anthropic’s guide splits your work into three groups.

Design systems can move now. One migration brings over every design system in your organization, including other people’s, and anyone who can use Claude Design can start it. Empty design systems aren’t migrated, and neither are ones made from a built-in starter theme, even if you edited them. A migrated design system can’t be edited directly on its page yet; you ask Claude to make changes.

Projects stay where they are, for now. Projects keep working in the standalone site until it closes, and the Artifacts page in Claude lists up to 60 of them. Anthropic says more details about moving projects “are coming soon.” There’s no project migration today.

Some things don’t carry over at all. Your chats with Claude and comments on projects and design systems stay in the standalone site and are deleted after it closes. Public links to standalone projects stop working. Your originals are deleted after December 14 too.

Two details can catch a small team out. If a design system is published and not private, migrating shares it with everyone in your organization. And organizations on zero data retention can’t turn on artifacts, so they can’t migrate at all and have to download their projects instead.

What to do

  1. List what you use. Open claude.ai/design and note every project and design system you still need, plus any public links you’ve sent to clients or put on a website.
  2. Migrate design systems. In Claude, open the Artifacts page and click “Migrate team design systems” in the “Claude Design lives here now” banner (or pick it from the Claude Design menu at the top right). On individual plans it starts right away. Anything under “Couldn’t be migrated” has a “Fix in Claude Design Standalone” button that runs a check and lists the files in the way. Anthropic notes the uploads folder often holds duplicate files, so it’s an easy place to trim.
  3. Export the projects you’d hate to lose. There’s no bulk download. For each project, open it in the standalone site, click “Share,” choose “Project HTML” (for slide decks it’s under “More formats and apps”), keep “Project archive” selected and click “Export.” You get a .zip with every file. Anthropic says this is free and doesn’t count toward your usage limits.
  4. Copy out chats and comments. They won’t follow you. Save any client feedback, decisions or prompts worth keeping.
  5. Replace public links. Anything shared from the standalone site breaks after December 14. Swap in an exported file or a new link.
  6. Team and Enterprise owners, check settings first. Under Organization settings > Artifacts, artifacts must be on. The Design systems, Design and Slides templates are on by default for Team plans but off by default for Enterprise. While Design systems is off, the migration button is grayed out for everyone except owners.
  7. Set a reminder. Our suggestion, not Anthropic’s: put a date in early December to confirm nothing is left behind.

If you mainly used Claude Design for slide decks, ChatGPT has a similar feature now; see our note on ChatGPT Slides. And if you’re also moving off models that are going away, Google’s Antigravity model removals on November 2 are a nearer deadline.

Sources & method

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Method. Last checked October 19, 2026. Every fact comes from Anthropic’s help center, product page or Claude Code changelog. We haven’t run a migration ourselves. The reminder date in step 7 is our advice. No affiliate links on this page. How we work.

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