Creating with Artifacts
What are Artifacts?
Artifacts are the outputs you create with Claude: a document, a deck, a design, a dashboard, a prototype.
- You can directly see the real thing take shape in a dedicated window alongside your conversation, ready to use and refine.
Claude creates an artifact when you ask for something that stands on its own — something you’ll want to edit, reuse, or share rather than just read once. If you want to ensure Claude creates an artifact, just say so: “Create this as an artifact.”
Designs, Decks, and Living Documents
Claude has a dedicated way to make each of the most common work deliverables:
Claude Design
creates visual work — landing pages, one-pagers, product mockups, interface prototypes.
- You can bring in your design system so drafts come back in your brand, and edit directly on the canvas: drag, resize, and align anything.
Claude Slides
creates presentations.
- Share the notes, report, or conversation you already have, and Claude outlines, writes, and lays out every slide.
- You can edit any slide directly, add your own images, and present without leaving Claude — or export to PowerPoint or PDF when you’re ready.
Claude Docs
creates living documents — rich-text pages you and Claude write together.
- Claude drafts in front of you, asks clarifying questions, and explains its choices in comments.
- You and your colleagues can edit the same doc at the same time, and changes save as you go.
- Claude can also pull data from your connected tools into charts and diagrams right in the page — a snapshot, not a live feed; ask Claude to refresh it when you need the latest.
- Export to Google Docs or as a .docx file anytime.
These work together in one conversation, and you can ask for one from another: “turn this doc into a deck,” or “make a one-pager from this deck.”
Creating Artifact
Creating an artifact is as simple as having a conversation. Describe what you want in any conversation with Claude (the composer’s Output menu lets you pick a design, slides, or a doc), or start from the Artifacts tab, where you can pick a design, a deck, or a doc and describe what you need.
Creating an artifact is as simple as having a conversation. Describe what you want in any conversation with Claude (the composer’s Output menu lets you pick a design, slides, or a doc), or start from the Artifacts tab, where you can pick a design, a deck, or a doc and describe what you need.
Working on An Artifact
Once an artifact exists, you have three ways to change it — and you can mix them freely
Edit it directly.
Comment for Claude.
Leave a comment on the exact element, slide, or passage you want changed, and Claude makes the change there.
In a doc, @-mention Claude in a comment and it replies explaining what it changed and why.