From an earlier video
This is material from an earlier video — Claude’s interface and features may have changed since. The idea and the approach still hold.
Claude Artifacts: building games, apps and documents without coding
Claude Artifacts is a game-changing feature that turns an ordinary AI chat into a powerful tool for creating interactive content.
Unlike Canvas in ChatGPT, Claude’s artifacts work far more precisely and give you more room for creativity.
What are artifacts in Claude?
Artifacts are standalone documents, apps or games that Claude creates and displays in a dedicated panel to the right of the chat. They’re saved automatically and available in the “My Artifacts” section.
The main types of artifacts:
- Text documents — articles, reports, scripts
- Interactive games — quizzes, puzzles, learning games
- Web apps — calculators, trackers, dashboards
- Documents — receipts, forms
- Presentations — slideshows with animation
- Charts and diagrams — data visualisation
Claude vs ChatGPT: why artifacts beat Canvas
🎯 Counting accuracy
ChatGPT Canvas’s problem:
- Inaccurately counts words and characters
- Ask it to cut to 3000 words → you get 700–900
- Often trims content without regard for context
Claude Artifacts’ advantage:
- Accurate character and word counting
- Keeps the structure when editing
- Follows technical requirements precisely
💾 Storage system
In Claude:
- Every artifact is saved in the “My Artifacts” section
- You can return to any project
- Easy to share a link or download as Markdown
In ChatGPT:
- Canvas is tied to a specific chat
- Hard to find old projects
- Limited export options
Building interactive games
Example: a learning game from a book
Task: create an interactive game based on a book about self-esteem.
Prompt for Claude:
Create an interactive learning game based on the attached book about self-esteem.
Requirements:
- A quiz with questions per chapter
- Progressive learning (simple to complex)
- A points and achievements system
- Practical exercises after each section
- The ability to save progress
Build it as a web app with a beautiful design.
Result: Claude builds a full game with:
- An interactive interface
- A progress system
- Practical exercises
- Instant feedback
💡 Tip: If the file exceeds the allowed size, upload it to Google Drive and share the link in the chat with Claude.
Examples of learning games:
🧠 Programming quiz:
- Questions of varying difficulty
- Explanations of the correct answers
- Tracking of your weak spots
📚 Literary game:
- Guess the author from a quote
- Chronological puzzles
- Character analysis
🌍 Geography quest:
- An interactive map
- Capital-city challenges
- Cultural details of countries
Creating documents and forms
📋 Official documents
Claude excels at creating realistic documents:
Available formats:
- Receipts (samples only)
- Contracts and agreements
- Résumés and portfolios
- Technical specifications
- Reports and presentations
⚖️ Important: Claude creates documents only as samples, honouring the principle of staying within the law.
🌐 Translations that keep the structure
A unique feature: Claude can translate documents into other languages while fully preserving:
- The original layout
- The heading structure
- Table formatting
- The placement of elements
Prompt for translation:
Translate this document from English into Russian,
keeping all the structure, layout and style.
Adapt the content to Russian realities where necessary.
Presentations and data visualisation
🎨 Minimalist presentations
Claude builds modern presentations with:
- A clean design
- Smooth animations
- Interactive elements
- A responsive layout
📊 Data analysis with charts
What it can do:
- Upload CSV files
- Build charts automatically
- Interactive dashboards
- Conclusions and recommendations
Example of a financial analysis:
Analyse my spending for the year and create:
1. An interactive chart of spending by category
2. Month-by-month trends
3. Recommendations for optimising the budget
4. A planning calculator
Web apps without coding
🧮 Useful calculators
Example apps:
- Compound-interest calculator
- Habit tracker
- Workout planner
- Currency converter
- BMI calculator
🎯 Interactive tools
- Password generator with adjustable complexity
- Task planner with drag-and-drop
- Time tracker with activity categories
- Event calendar with reminders
Working with artifacts: practical tips
📁 Organising artifacts
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Use descriptive names
- Bad: “Game 1”, “Document”
- Good: “Python quiz for beginners”, “Q1 marketing report”
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Build themed collections
- Educational games
- Business documents
- Personal tools
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Update the content regularly
- Ask Claude to improve old artifacts
- Add new features
- Fix any bugs you find
🔄 Export and sharing
Ways to save:
- Markdown file — for text documents
- HTML file — for interactive apps
- Public link — for quick sharing
- PDF — for printing documents
🎯 Iterative improvement
The optimisation process:
- Create a basic version
- Test the functionality
- Ask Claude to add features
- Improve the design and UX
- Final polish
Ready-made prompts for creating artifacts
🎨 Prompts for presentations
Business presentation:
Create an interactive presentation on "[topic]" with these requirements:
- 8–12 slides with a minimalist design
- Smooth animations between slides
- Interactive navigation (next/back buttons)
- Corporate colours: [specify colours]
- Include slides: title, problem, solution, results, conclusion
- Add a progress bar showing the current slide
Educational presentation:
Build a learning presentation on "[subject]" for [audience]:
- Interactive elements for engagement
- Mini-quizzes after each section
- Visual schemes and diagrams
- A "show/hide" system for extra information
- Dark mode for comfortable viewing
- A "Notes" button for saving key ideas
📊 Prompts for charts and diagrams
Financial analytics:
Create an interactive dashboard for personal finance analysis:
- A pie chart of spending by category
- A line chart of income/expenses by month
- Interactive filters by period
- A savings and investment calculator
- KPI indicators (savings, debts, investments)
- The ability to upload CSV data
- Export reports to PDF
Business metrics:
Build a dashboard for tracking an online store's KPIs:
- A sales funnel with conversions at each stage
- A heatmap of user activity by day of the week
- An LTV and CAC chart with trends
- Top-10 products by sales (an interactive table)
- Goal-achievement indicators (green/red)
- A sales forecast for next month
🎮 Prompts for interactive games
Learning quiz:
Create an adaptive quiz on [topic] with these features:
- A bank of 50+ questions of varying difficulty
- An algorithm that picks questions for the player's level
- A points system with speed multipliers
- Detailed explanations of the correct answers
- Stats on progress and weak spots
- "Exam" and "Practice" modes
- A leaderboard with the option to save your score
Skills trainer:
Build an interactive trainer for learning [skill]:
- A progressive level system (beginner → expert)
- Practical tasks with checking
- An achievements and badges system
- Daily challenges
- Tracking of study time
- Personal recommendations for improvement
- The ability to compete with friends
🧮 Prompts for calculators and tools
All-in-one calculator:
Create a multifunctional calculator with tabs:
- A regular calculator with operation history
- A percentage and discount calculator
- A currency converter with live rates
- A compound-interest calculator for investments
- A BMI calculator with recommendations
- A time calculator (adding/subtracting dates)
- A beautiful design with button animations
Task planner:
Build an advanced task planner:
- Drag & drop for changing priorities
- Colour-coded categories
- Subtasks with progress tracking
- A calendar view and a task list
- Filters by date, priority, category
- A tag system for grouping
- Export the task list in various formats
- Dark/light theme
📋 Prompts for documents and forms
Résumé builder:
Create an interactive résumé builder:
- A choice of 5 professional templates
- A step-by-step data-entry wizard
- Automatic improvement suggestions
- A real-time preview
- A grammar and style check
- Export to PDF with formatting preserved
- Tips for each résumé section
Contract generator:
Build a builder for simple contracts:
- Templates: rental, services, sale-and-purchase
- An interactive data-entry form
- Automatic calculation of amounts and dates
- A document preview
- Validation of required fields
- Saving drafts
- Export to Word/PDF formats
- Legal hints for each clause
🎯 Prompts for specialised tools
Text analyser:
Create a tool for analysing text with these features:
- Counting words, characters, sentences, paragraphs
- Readability analysis (the Flesch–Kincaid index)
- Finding repeated words and phrases
- Text-sentiment analysis
- Highlighting key words and phrases
- Stats on sentence length
- Recommendations for improving the style
- Export an analytical report
Content generator:
Build an idea generator for content:
- A bank of 500+ templates for different niches
- Filters by platform (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok)
- A headline generator with A/B testing
- A content-plan calendar with drag&drop
- Tracking of idea performance
- A bank of trending topics by category
- Brainstorming tools
- Export the content plan to Excel
Tips for working with artifacts
💡 Tips for writing prompts
The structure of an effective prompt:
- Artifact type — clearly state what to create
- Core functionality — the key features
- Design requirements — style, colours, layout
- Interactivity — which elements should be clickable
- Extra features — export, saving, sharing
Example of a quality prompt:
Create a [TYPE] for [GOAL] with these features:
- [FEATURE 1] with a description of the behaviour
- [FEATURE 2] with technical requirements
- Design: [style, colours, layout]
- Interactivity: [what should be clickable]
- Export: [to which formats]
🔧 Troubleshooting
If the artifact won’t load:
- Refresh the page
- Ask Claude to rebuild it
- Simplify the functionality
- Split it into several parts
If you need improvements:
Improve this artifact:
- Add [a specific feature]
- Fix [description of the problem]
- Make the design more [requirement]
Integration with your workflow
📚 For education
- Creating interactive notes
- Subject-based learning games
- Self-assessment systems
- Adaptive learning materials
💼 For business
- Interactive presentations for clients
- ROI and KPI calculators
- Reporting systems
- Planning tools
🎨 For creativity
- Idea and concept generators
- Interactive portfolios
- Learning materials on creativity
- Content-planning tools
Conclusion
Claude Artifacts open up incredible possibilities for creating interactive content without knowing how to code.
Use artifacts to create educational content, business tools and entertaining apps — the possibilities are practically endless!
📺 Watch the demo: Building games in Claude AI on YouTube
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