I wanted a 60s motion graphics launch video for my app, and I only knew how to use Claude Design

... The first few claude design versions had way too much text. It was basically a slideshow you had to read. I gave notes over and over, and each version got a bit better but still looked average. Two things changed it: 1. Anthropic put out their own promo made with claude design, and it looked so much cleaner than mine. I had Claude break down why: fewer words, more visuals, more breathing room, and one idea per scene. 2. I found a thread on X about how people get the best motion work out of claude design. I had claude turn it, plus everything we'd learned, into a reusable process doc. Then I connected claude Design to my repo with the animation skill, and the next run came out way better. After that I moved the video code into my repo so claude code could keep editing it directly, and rendered 4K versions in portrait and landscape. Claude design left placeholders for real footage. I made short 4-second AI clips for those, generating the first and last frames as images…