You open Canva to build something on-brand and just... stare at the blank page. Not because you can't design - because you don't have a designer, and nobody ever taught you how to bridge that gap. There's a tool sitting inside your Claude subscription built to close exactly that gap.

In this episode:

• Why Claude Design isn't a Canva replacement - it's a design system compliance tool, and that distinction changes how you use it
• The one setup step everyone rushes past that decides whether your outputs look on-brand or just generic
• Why Claude defaults to rounded corners and pill buttons on everything you ask for - and exactly what you need to tell it to stop
• The token cost nobody warns you about, and the one setting to flip once your design system is built
• How to take a Claude Design mock up and actually finish it in Canva, PowerPoint or your website builder

Action step:

Pull every brand asset out of Canva this week - your colours, your actual font files, your logos, a couple of designs you love. Upload them into a Claude Design design system as PNGs or JPEGs, skip the PDFs, and go through every mock up telling it exactly what to strip out.

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