Claude's Artifacts feature lets you create rendered, interactive outputs — HTML pages, data visualizations, formatted documents, and working code — that appear in a live preview panel. It's the closest AI comes to a real-time collaborative development environment.
Ask Claude to "create an artifact" for any visual or interactive output. Specify the type: HTML page, chart, formatted document, or interactive tool.
The artifact is generated and immediately rendered in the right-side preview panel — you see the output as code is produced.
Make changes by description: "move the chart to the top", "add a toggle for dark mode", "make the font larger and change the color to teal."
Download the artifact as an HTML file or copy the code for deployment in your own project.
Building an interactive analytics view
Create an HTML artifact: an analytics dashboard with a line chart for monthly revenue, a bar chart for user signups by channel, and a KPI summary row. Use JavaScript with Chart.js.
ROI calculator for a sales tool
Build an artifact: an interactive ROI calculator for our SaaS product. Inputs: current manual hours, hourly rate, and team size. Output: annual savings, payback period, and 3-year ROI percentage.
A printable structured document
Create an artifact: a professionally formatted HTML project proposal with a cover page, executive summary, scope of work, timeline table, and budget breakdown. Use clean, print-ready styling.
Start with a basic layout and add features incrementally. "Add a dropdown filter to the chart" works better than specifying the entire complex UI in one prompt.
"Use Tailwind CSS styling" or "match the visual style of Stripe's dashboard" gives Claude a clear aesthetic target and produces more polished artifacts.
Always include "make it fully mobile responsive" — artifacts default to desktop styling unless told otherwise.
Artifacts are perfect for validating ideas with stakeholders before investing in real development. A 5-minute artifact often beats a 3-day Figma mockup for quick decisions.