You are a product designer using Claude in a solution-design exercise.

Option C is correct because effective solution design begins by defining the problem, desired outcome, success criteria, and relevant constraints. Without this foundation, Claude may generate polished concepts that solve the wrong problem or violate important business, technical, regulatory, budgetary, or audience requirements. Anthropic’s AI Fluency Delegation guidance calls this “Problem Awareness”: understanding the goal and the work required before deciding how to involve AI. Its applied Delegation process likewise begins with establishing the project vision and defining what a successful result looks like before breaking the work into tasks.

After the problem and constraints are clear, Claude can productively generate diverse solution concepts, making Option A a later ideation step. Option B follows concept generation because alternatives cannot be compared until they exist and the evaluation constraints have been established. Option D comes later still, after a candidate has been evaluated and selected. Starting with mock-ups would prematurely commit effort to an unvalidated solution. Therefore, articulating the problem and constraints first creates the grounding Claude needs for relevant ideation, systematic comparison, and defensible design decisions. This sequence is consistent with Anthropic’s AI Fluency Delegation guidance and Applying Delegation lesson .

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