AI UX DAILY
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Two new courses · 30 minutes end to end
Claude Docs and Claude Slides shipped as artifact types, next to Design on the Artifacts page. Both are new enough that the feature list is still the only thing written about them. So today is two courses instead of four stories.
Today
Two courses on the new Claude artifacts
New course · 5 lessons · 14 minutes
Claude Docs: a document you brief by commenting on it
A chat gives you text you then have to place. A doc is already the place. You point at a line, ask there, and the reply arrives on that same line with the edit already made.
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| 01 | What a doc is, and why it is not a chat | 3 min |
| 02 | The anchored comment: brief it by pointing | 4 min |
| 03 | Watching it work | 2 min |
| 04 | Tabs, sharing, and the two names problem | 2 min |
| 05 | When a doc is the wrong ask | 3 min |
New course · 5 lessons · 16 minutes
Claude Slides: it asks for a design system before you have a slide
Slides opens with a question Docs never asks, and the design system picker it shows you will probably be empty. That looks broken. It is not, and the fix is not where you would look for it.
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| 01 | The question Slides asks first | 3 min |
| 02 | The empty picker, and the legacy trap | 4 min |
| 03 | Skipping the system, and what you get | 3 min |
| 04 | Editing by comment, on a canvas | 3 min |
| 05 | The export, inspected | 3 min |
If you only do one
Start with Docs, then read Slides lessons 2 and 5
The anchored comment is the same interaction in both products, and Docs teaches it in four minutes on something forgiving. Once it is second nature, the rest of Slides is mostly the two traps: lesson 2 is the empty picker and the way out of it, lesson 5 is what the export quietly drops.
Both courses, free, no signup
Thirty minutes, and you stop guessing at three tiles
Written from real sessions, including the parts that did not go smoothly.
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