Claude Design Standalone Closing 14 December: How to Move Your Work

What exactly happens when claude.ai/design closes on 14 December?

Anthropic's migration article says you can keep using the standalone site until 14 December 2026. After that it is read-only and no new projects can be started, except that the owner of an unmoved project can still change its files so it can be fixed and moved. Originals are deleted "some time later", with no date given. No page we read states a time of day or time zone for the closure. Aim to finish by Monday 30 November, and treat Friday 11 December as your last safe working day.

Where does Claude Design live now?

Claude Design is now a template you start an artifact from, so artifacts must be switched on for your organisation. Pick the surface by the job. The design-to-code handoff is covered in /blog/claude-design-to-claude-code-handoff-workflow, written before the plan changes described here.

• •In a conversation: ask for a design, or choose Output then Design. This suits founders and marketers working from a brief.
• •In the Artifacts tab: pick a Design template when starting from nothing.
• •In Claude Code: /design creates, edits and syncs designs, and /design-sync pulls in your design system. Use these when your components live in a repository.
• •In the iOS and Android apps: request, view and edit designs. Sharing settings can only be changed on web or desktop, so treat the phone as a review tool.

Is Claude Design free now, and what is the catch?

Since 8 October 2026 Claude Design has been out of beta on every plan, including Free. Enterprise organisations got it on by default from 15 October, except HIPAA-enabled ones. The catch is the meter. Anthropic says "there's no separate Claude Design allowance to track": the old weekly design allowance has gone, and design work now draws from the same pool as Claude Code.

• •If one account does both design and coding, keep heavy design rounds away from big coding runs. /blog/claude-pro-max-ultra-usage-limits-november-2026-india explains the windows.
• •At your limit, Claude Design is unavailable until it resets, unless you have enabled usage credits.
• •Design systems are a separate question. Anthropic lists them in beta on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise (off on Enterprise until an owner enables them). Free is not on that list, so a Free account should not plan around a saved brand system.

How do you move your design systems to Claude?

One move brings over every design system in your organisation, including other people's, and anyone who can use Claude Design can start it. Agree who presses the button first. Move design systems before projects, because they do not depend on the project rollout.

How do you check a moved design system still looks like your brand?

Anthropic warns that "Design system import is only as good as its source". Run the same test before and after the move and compare. The first three prompts are Anthropic's own validation suggestions. The final instruction is our addition, and it is the one that exposes drift.

What can go wrong during the move?

Anthropic's own article documents each of these traps.

How do you protect work when there is no version history?

Anthropic is direct: "Claude Design doesn't have version history yet." Asking Claude to "Save what we have and try a completely different approach" helps inside a project but is no backup. To download from the standalone site, open the project, click Share, choose Project HTML (for a slide deck it sits under More formats and apps), keep Project archive selected and click Export. You get a .zip with every file, free of usage limits. A bulk download of all your projects is rolling out with Move to Claude and appears on the standalone home page once you have it. Neither includes chats or comments. After the move, keep exporting a .zip at each approved milestone and commit it to git.

What should each person do before 14 December?

Some steps belong to a specific person. Only a project's owner can move that project, and only an Owner or Primary Owner, not an Admin, can start Move everything.

What is Claude Motion, and is it worth it for a small team?

Claude Motion entered beta on 8 October 2026. Anthropic says "Claude builds an animation from your prompt, and it plays like a short video", using code that animates text, charts, shapes and images. It "doesn't use a video generation model, so there's no generated footage and no AI-generated people." Use it for an animated board-deck chart, an all-hands explainer or a product walkthrough, and skip it for anything needing real footage. Because each animation is code, you can change one word, number or timing and the rest stays as it was. That editability is the reason to use it. Export is MP4. It is available only on Team, on by default, and Enterprise, off until an owner enables it. Free, Pro, Max and Ultra accounts do not get it.

• •Cost of access: Team needs at least two seats. At list price that is 2 x $20 = $40 a month billed annually, or 2 x $25 = $50 billed monthly, about Rs 3,754 or Rs 4,693 at the RBI reference rate of Rs 93.8579 per USD on 9 November 2026.
• •India pricing may differ. TechCrunch reported on 13 July 2026 that Team starts at Rs 2,399 per seat a month including local taxes, so two seats cost Rs 4,798. It put Pro at Rs 2,000 a month billed annually, so moving from one Pro seat to a two-seat Team adds about Rs 2,798 a month. Confirm at checkout.
• •Our recommendation: upgrade if a second person will use the seat and you refresh explainers regularly, since repeated edits are where Motion pays back. For one launch video, compare that monthly figure with a freelancer's quote.
• •Motion counts toward your plan's usage limits, and longer animations use more than a typical message.
• •The help article publishes no maximum length or resolution and does not cover audio. Test your format before promising a delivery specification.

Can you send Claude Motion to Canva?

Partly, and the wording matters. Anthropic's 8 October post lists Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Higgsfield, invideo, Luma AI and Runway as destinations, "with Canva and Captions coming soon". Canva's Claude connector now includes a Claude Motion import tool; neither company has published a launch post we could find. We read that tool's description on 11 November: it takes a short-lived MP4 download URL and imports it into Canva as a video, so expect no editable layers. We have not tested whether a Send to Canva button is live inside Claude Motion. The route that needs no integration is to export the MP4 and upload it yourself. Descript describes the same limit for its hand-off: the animation arrives as a flat clip. Finish every word and number in Claude first, then use the other tool only for what wraps around the clip, such as voiceover or captions.

Should Figma or Framer change your plan?

Not for this deadline, but they affect where you build next. Figma says code layers are in open beta, and since 3 November its agent reads prototype connections when building a code layer from frames. Framer's Harness 2 post, bylined 2 November, says external agents including Claude Code can submit a single program through Framer MCP that runs directly in Framer. Figma appears on neither of Anthropic's Send to lists for Claude Design, although Claude can build a design system from Figma files. Our recommendation: if Figma is your source of truth, keep it there and use Claude Design for exploration. If code is, use /design-sync and let the repository lead. If your marketing site runs on Framer, try the MCP route before moving anything.

How can Tech Arion help with this move?

Tech Arion builds websites and landing pages with Claude Code and advises teams on design-to-code workflows. If you want help moving a design system or connecting it to your codebase, start at /services/landing-pages.

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