Episode

The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)

Jenny Wen, head of design at Claude Co-work at Anthropic and former director of design at Figma, describes how AI coding tools have collapsed the traditional design process, shifting her time from mocking prototypes to pairing directly with engineers and polishing shipped code. She discusses the archetypes she looks for when hiring designers, why she stepped back into individual-contributor work after managing a team, and frameworks like the "legibility" model for spotting promising internal prototypes before they become products.