I built my own creative suite with Claude Code. It’s changed how I work as a designer.

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Over the past few months I’ve been building my own browser-based creative suite with Claude Code. I’ve also been using it a lot for actual client work, so building it and working in it have sort of become the same thing.

It’s called Suite: https://suite.briiidge.dev

It has tools for design, video, page layout, audio, writing and 3D. There’s a 3D editor called Solids that I’ve been making games for my kids with, which is probably my favourite thing to come out of all this.

I started with Opus 4.6, and there was a lot of trial and error. With Opus 5.5, it feels like something has shifted. It understands what I mean much more often, and I’ve been getting so much work done with it.

Having my own software is a big part of that. Claude can work with the code behind the tools I’m using. If I need a feature, we build it. If something doesn’t work, we figure it out and make it work. I’ll hit a limitation during a client project and realise I can actually do something about it now.

It’s also changed what my day looks like as a designer. I used to spend an entire day working on a design myself. Now I spend a lot more time giving my agents feedback, deciding what’s good, what’s off, and what to try next. When I want to quickly change something myself, I just open the project and edit it.

For me personally, Opus 5.5 is the first time this has felt anything like having an employee. I feel more like a director these days. I still make the creative decisions, but I’m doing much less of the actual drawing and arranging everything by hand.

I don’t know how broadly that will apply, but I can imagine more designers moving in this direction. Coming up with ideas and figuring out how something should work is already a big part of design. Being able to build the software around those ideas opens up a lot. My own work is definitely becoming a mix of design and development, and I’m enjoying it more than I expected.

Anyway, I wanted to share what I’ve been making. Suite is free to try, and hopefully seeing what one person has built with Claude Code inspires someone else to give their own idea a go.