Eight Newer Claude Features, Tried on Real Work · Lesson 3 of 8

Make the flyer, not just the words

20 minutes. Works on: all plans for Design, Slides and Docs. The optional Motion step needs a Team or Enterprise plan.

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A year ago, asking AI for a flyer got you the words for a flyer. Then you opened another program, fought with text boxes, and gave up at 9 PM.

Now Claude makes the flyer. You can see it, move things around, ask for changes and download a PDF for the printer. This lesson walks you through one real flyer, start to finish, with the checks that keep a pretty mistake from going out the door.

• April 17, 2026: Anthropic launched Claude Design for visual work like designs, one-pagers and slides.
• September 16, 2026: you can ask for a design, deck or document in any conversation.
• October 8, 2026: Docs, Slides and Design came out of beta. Anthropic says they're available on every plan, including the free one.

They all need one setting on: Cloud code execution and file creation, under Settings > Capabilities (on Team plans, your owner controls it). It's usually on already.

• Design: anything visual on one page. A flyer, a door hanger, a "what's included" sheet, a sign for the front counter.
• Slides: a deck you can edit slide by slide, present from inside Claude, and export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides. Good for the Monday meeting or a training refresher.
• Docs: a living document you write with Claude. Good for a new procedure or a policy draft. ([Claude for Your Team](/courses/claude-for-your-team), Lesson 5, covers Docs and the sharing rules for all three.)

You can start any of them three ways: just ask in a chat, choose Output in the message box and pick one, or start from the Artifacts tab.

Anthropic's own designer shared how they use Design. Five of their points matter most for a small business:

• Bring your own logo. Design doesn't have an image model, so it isn't built to draw logos or photos. Attach your logo file and your own photos.
• Say your colors and fonts. Left on its own, Anthropic says Claude picks one of its favorite looks. Tell it yours.
• Ask for options, then remix. Their designers ask for ten options. For a flyer, three is plenty. Then: "the headline from option 2, the layout from option 3."
• Move things yourself. Dragging, resizing and changing colors directly doesn't use any of your usage. Save your requests for the bigger changes.
• It counts toward your usage. There's no separate Design allowance. A long back-and-forth on one flyer uses the same limit as everything else.

Two limits to know: Anthropic says Design doesn't have version history yet, so download a copy of any version you like before you change it. And the old standalone page at claude.ai/design closes on December 14, 2026; Design now lives in your regular conversations.

A beautiful flyer with the wrong phone number is worse than no flyer. Before anything prints:

• Every fact is checked by a second person: phone number, website, towns, dates, prices.
• Every promise is approved by whoever sets the policy. "Free estimates" and "same-day service" are commitments.
• Nothing is made up. If Claude added a slogan or a statistic you didn't give it, take it out or confirm it.

Marcus wanted a flyer for the fall furnace tune-up. Tina gathered the real details first: the price Marcus approved, the dates, the four towns, the phone number and the logo file. She attached the logo and typed:

> Make a one-page flyer for our fall furnace tune-up, for door hangers and the front counter. Use the attached logo. Colors: dark blue and orange. Details: [offer, dates, towns, phone, website]. Use only these details; don't add any others. Give me three different layouts.

She took the layout from option 1 and the headline from option 3, made the phone number bigger by dragging it herself, and downloaded a PDF. Marcus caught one mistake: the flyer said "all brands" and they don't service one brand of boiler. Fixed in one request.

Claude Motion turns a prompt into a short animated explainer you download as an MP4 video. Anthropic says it's in beta on Team and Enterprise plans and "built for explaining your own work": it animates your text, charts and shapes, with no generated footage and no AI-generated people. In the message box, type /motion to start one.

A good first one: "how to book a service call," in five steps, for your website or the screen in the waiting area. Check every word and number in it like you checked the flyer.

• Pick one real piece: a flyer, a door hanger or a one-page "what's included" sheet.
• Gather the real details first, and your logo file.
• Ask for three layouts, using only your details. Remix the best parts.
• Make one change yourself by moving or resizing something.
• Download a PDF. Have a second person check every fact and promise before it prints.
• Optional: turn your notes from last week's meeting into a five-slide deck and export it to PowerPoint.

Check it worked

• You have a PDF you'd actually hand to a customer.
• A second person checked the phone number, dates, towns and any price.
• Nothing on it came from Claude's imagination.

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Next: a mini app. Turn a sticky note of steps into a small tool your whole office uses the same way.

→ Lesson 4: Build a mini app for your office

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