How to Build a Multi‑Page Animated Website with Claude Design in 10 Minutes

Claude Design is suddenly everywhere—and for good reason. With the right workflow, you can go from a blank canvas to a fully branded, multi-page, animated website in about 10 minutes, even if you’re not a developer.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to combine Claude Design, Claude Code, a free brand kit, and a few modern web tools to ship a production-ready site fast.

Step 1: Build a Reusable Design System in Claude Design

The secret to fast, consistent websites is a design system. In Claude Design, a design system defines your colors, typography, buttons, icons, and UI components so every page looks like it belongs to the same brand.

Claude can generate this automatically, but you can get even better results by feeding it a professional brand kit.

Use a Free Brand Kit from getdesign.md

Head to getdesign.md. This site offers ready-made brand kits for dozens of major brands—Airbnb, Apple, BMW, Binance, and more. Each kit includes:

• Color palettes
• Font families and type scales
• Headline and body text styles
• Light and dark mode variants

There’s even a Claude-themed brand kit you can use as a starting point.

Copy the text content from the brand kit (colors, typography, usage notes, etc.). Then go to Claude Design, open the Design Systems tab, and create a new design system. Paste everything into the “Additional notes” section, optionally add your project or business name, and generate.

After a few minutes, Claude Design will output a full design system with:

• Icon sets
• Button styles
• Marketing UI components
• Typography scales
• Light/dark mode support

This system is reusable across websites, presentations, and motion graphics, so the upfront setup pays off quickly. If you want a deeper dive into systems, check out this guide to mastering Claude Design systems.

Step 2: Generate a Multi‑Page Website Prototype

With your design system ready, it’s time to generate the actual website layout.

In Claude Design, go to Home → Prototype and create a new prototype. Give your project a name (for example, “Automatable”), select the design system you just created, and choose High fidelity so Claude produces a polished visual design instead of a bare wireframe.

Borrow Structure from a Template Library

Design and structure are different things. You already have design handled via the design system. For structure—how sections are laid out on the page—you can borrow from an existing template.

One option is Durable, which offers pre-designed page layouts. For example, you can pick a “marketing agency” website template, take a screenshot of the layout, and use that purely as structural inspiration:

• Hero with headline and central graphic
• Services or features section
• Case studies or portfolio
• Testimonials
• Call-to-action sections

Save the screenshot and attach it to your Claude Design prototype as a reference image.

Prompt Claude Design to Build All Your Pages

Now you can describe the site you want in plain language. For example:

“Please build a beautiful agency website for my company Automatable with five pages: Home, Services, Contact, About, and Case Studies. Use the Claude design system for branding and the attached screenshot for page structure.”

Claude Design will generate all five pages in one go, applying your brand system while following the structural layout from the screenshot. You’ll get a consistent, multi-page design with matching styles across:

• Homepage
• Services page
• Case studies page
• About page
• Contact page

Step 3: Quickly Edit and Refine the Design

Once the pages are generated, you’ll likely see placeholder content—generic names, stock avatars, and filler text. Claude Design makes it easy to swap these out without manual design work.

Use Comments to Target Specific Elements

Click the Comment tool and then click any element on the page (an image, text block, button, etc.). Claude now knows exactly which element you’re referring to.

You can then write instructions like:

• “Replace this placeholder image with the attached team photo.”
• “Change this name and title to our real founder’s details.”

Claude will update just that element while preserving the rest of the design.

Fine‑Tune Styles with Edit and Draw

If you want more control, use the Edit option to adjust:

• Colors
• Font sizes
• Font families
• Spacing and alignment

For very specific tweaks, use the Draw tool to circle an area and then describe what you want changed, for example: “Make this heading text red” or “Increase the padding around this card.”

This back-and-forth loop lets you refine the design visually without touching any design software like Figma or Adobe XD.

Step 4: Export to Claude Code and Build the Site

Designs are great, but you still need a real website that runs in the browser. That’s where Claude Code comes in.

Export from Claude Design to Claude Code

In Claude Design, click Export and choose Handoff to Claude Code. This generates a command or configuration that Claude Code can use to recreate the design as code.

Copy that export snippet—it’s what you’ll paste into your coding environment next.

Set Up Claude Code in VS Code or Cursor

You don’t need to be a developer to use Claude Code, but you do need a code editor. Two popular options are:

• VS Code (Visual Studio Code)
• Google’s “anti-gravity” style code workspace (or similar modern editors)

Install your editor of choice, then:

1. Open the Extensions panel.
2. Search for Claude Code.
3. Install the extension and sign in to your Claude account.
4. Create or open an empty folder for your project (for example, a folder called design).

With the folder open, start a new Claude Code session and paste in the export command from Claude Design.

Add a claude.md Blueprint for Better Results

Before running the main prompt, add a file called claude.md in your project folder. This file acts like an instruction manual for Claude Code, telling it how to structure the project and what conventions to follow.

You can use a pre-written claude.md blueprint (for example, from a shared community resource). Paste the contents into claude.md so Claude Code can read it.

Then send a prompt along these lines:

“Please build this Claude Design website using Next.js, and use the GSAP library to add animations wherever appropriate. Add as many beautiful, smooth animations as possible without making it look cheesy. Read the claude.md file and build everything in one go.”

Claude Code will then generate a full Next.js project based on your design and instructions.

Step 5: Add Stunning Animations with GSAP

One of the most impressive parts of this workflow is how easily you can get high-end animations without hand-coding them.

Because you asked Claude Code to use GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), it wires in animations as it builds the site. When you open the site locally (usually via a localhost link in your editor), you’ll see:

• Text and buttons animating into view on load
• Sections fading or sliding in as you scroll
• Logos or brand partner carousels moving smoothly
• Numbers counting up for stats or metrics

All of this is powered by GSAP under the hood. If you want to push the animations further, you can browse examples at demos.greensock.com and then ask Claude Code to implement specific effects from those demos into your site.

If you’re interested in more project ideas you can build with Claude Design, take a look at these five real Claude Design projects.

Step 6: Deploy with GitHub and Vercel (Free)

Right now, your site only runs on your machine via localhost. To share it with the world, you’ll deploy it using GitHub and Vercel—both free for this kind of project.

Upload Your Code to GitHub

GitHub is like cloud storage for code. To use it:

1. Create a free GitHub account if you don’t already have one.
2. Create a new repository (for example, design) and set it to private if you don’t want others to see your code.
3. GitHub will show you a set of commands to push an existing project.

Back in Claude Code, you can simply say:

“Please upload all the code in this project to GitHub and deploy it to the new repository in one go.”

Claude Code will run the necessary Git commands. Refresh your GitHub repo page and you should see all your project files there.

Deploy to Vercel in a Few Clicks

Vercel is a hosting platform that works especially well with Next.js.

1. Create a free Vercel account.
2. Connect Vercel to your GitHub account.
3. Click New Project and import the repository you just pushed.
4. In the project settings, set the framework preset to Next.js.
5. Click Deploy.

Within seconds, Vercel will give you a live URL (something like your-project-name.vercel.app) where anyone can access your site.

To make it look professional, go to the Domains section in Vercel and add a custom domain. You can:

• Import a domain from providers like GoDaddy or Namecheap
• Or buy a new domain directly through Vercel

Once connected, your Next.js + Claude + GSAP site will be live on a clean, branded URL.

Bonus: Motion Graphics and Animated Assets in Claude Design

Beyond static pages, Claude Design can also generate motion graphics and animated visuals that match your brand.

In the same Claude Design workspace, you can prompt it with something like: “Create an animated motion graphic for my homepage hero that fits the Automatable brand.”

For best results, first ask Claude (chat) to turn your idea into a detailed “mega prompt” with multiple sentences describing:

• The style and mood
• Colors and shapes
• Motion behavior (fade, slide, rotate, etc.)
• Where it will be used on the site

Then paste that mega prompt into Claude Design’s chat and let it generate the animation. You can iterate until it feels right, then export and integrate it into your Next.js site with Claude Code’s help.

From Idea to Live Site in Minutes

Putting it all together, here’s the full workflow:

1. Use getdesign.md + Claude Design to create a robust design system.
2. Generate a multi-page prototype (Home, Services, About, Contact, Case Studies) using your design system and a structural screenshot.
3. Refine content and visuals using comments, edit, and draw tools.
4. Export to Claude Code and generate a Next.js project with GSAP animations.
5. Push the code to GitHub with Claude Code’s help.
6. Deploy the site on Vercel and connect a custom domain.

This stack lets you ship polished, animated, multi-page websites incredibly fast—without traditional design tools or deep coding skills. As AI design and coding tools continue to improve, workflows like this are likely to become the default for modern web creation.