Andres GonzalezFlowglad · Designer by day, Batman by night

Claude Design, meet Aqua Chat (anyone else obsessed with Aqua UI 👀) #claude #design @claude #ad

30 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Designer Andres Gonzalez uses Claude Design to create Aqua UI variants for a chat app, then feeds the polished designs into Claude Code to automatically generate the working interface. The workflow shows how iterating visually in Claude Design beats repeated prompting, turning finished designs into functional code in one step.

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As a designer, I've always wondered what a chat app might look like with this Aqua UI aesthetic. So I decided to shoot some tokens at it with Claude Design and made this. This is Aqua Chat. It's a fully functional multi-model chat app in Aqua UI. I use Claude Design to explore different variants and styles on a canvas right inside of my desktop app so I can zoom into the details and actually polish the designs myself instead of prompting over and over again. I can even prototype that thing until it feels right. Then I could feed these designs to Claude Code to actually build the real interface, which is awesome because