Artboard Workflow

Artboard Workflow refers to a working style where AI sketches out a screen design draft on a virtual artboard and refines it step by step. Just as a designer draws a screen layout on a large sheet of paper and then adjusts button positions or colors until it's finished, AI takes a user's request, places a draft screen on that artboard, and keeps revising it from there.

This working style originally belonged to standalone design programs, but it has recently made its way into AI tools that handle code through a command-line interface. Now developers can sketch and refine a design draft inside the same tool they use to write code, without having to switch to a separate design program. It's a bit like a carpenter who can now plane wood without putting down the saw.

In the article, it appears in a sentence like: "It was an update that brought Claude Design's artboard workflow directly into the CLI and desktop app." Here, "brought" doesn't mean an entirely new feature was created — it means an existing design workflow was carried over so it could be used the same way inside other tools (the command line and the desktop app).

After installing Claude Code, type /design in your project folder and describe the screen you want. For example, ask it to "draw a draft of a login screen," and the AI will sketch out a layout on the artboard. Then you can request changes like "move the button to the center," and refine the draft just as you would in an actual design tool.