On Friday, Anthropic Labs released a preview of Claude Design, an entirely new way to interact with Claude to create visual work like "designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more."

The video blew me away. It's so cool!

Then I tried it. The actual product, used to redo a few slides, was… underwhelming.

Nevertheless, Claude Design exposes a path for a company like Anthropic to truly disrupt the academic system as we know it.

Let's imagine another product entirely, but with the academic researcher in mind. I'll call it Manuscript.