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Jenny Wen

Head of Design, Claude @ Anthropic

Head of Design for Claude at Anthropic. Former Director of Design at Figma (FigJam, Slides).

β€œIt's not just designers who are feeling like, "Oh yeah, we have to keep up with engineers." I think even engineers are like, "How do we keep up with ourselves?", covering product design, AI product work, and engineering tradeoffs.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
AnthropicHead of Design, Claude~2023-present
FigmaDirector of Design (FigJam, Slides)~2019-2023
DropboxDesigner (Dropbox Paper)~2016-2019
SquareDesigner~2014-2016

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β€œAnd so that's the big shift that I'm seeing. And I think I have opinions about it now, but ask me in three months and it might actually change even more.”
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8:35
β€œYeah. Yeah. And I think part of it is just curiosity. It feels like I have this front row seat to so much that's happening in the industry. And so a lot of it is like, yeah, our Slack is a goldmine. I...”
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Jenny Wen

15:08
β€œYeah, yeah. I think that is the best AI news is probably internally, if you're ever at one of these companies in the Slack.”
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Jenny Wen

15:33
β€œAnd yeah, I think we're a fully Claude house here. So yes, that's basically my stack.”
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Jenny Wen

19:56
β€œYeah. It's really annoying to be like, "Can you change this to this class?" When you can just go in and change it to a different class.”
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Jenny Wen

22:12
β€œYeah. And it's like chatting and talking to someone is still ... We as humans are doing it, and it's a way for us to interact in a really rich way. And now we just have this other medium to interact w...”
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Jenny Wen

33:55
β€œAt the max, I probably had, I think, 12, 15 designers or so, and I had a few managers as well.”
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Jenny Wen

38:13
β€œYeah. Yeah. And basically, I don't know, if you almost had their skillset, it would look like a block instead of a T.”
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Jenny Wen

50:24
β€œI mean, it's gotten a lot better in the last year or so, even. So yeah.”
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Jenny Wen

54:38
β€œYeah. And I think it's what makes your style of leadership stand out, or feel special to a certain person.”
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Jenny Wen

57:47
β€œSo an example of this is, with my last team, I feel like they would make fun of things that I would say at crits sometimes, certain phrases I would say.”
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Jenny Wen

59:14
β€œYeah. Yeah. That, but also if there is some energy around it, but I don't quite always understand what the energy is, it's to dive deeper and try to understand what that is.”
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1:06:41