This week’s episode is with Joel Lewenstein who is the Head of Product Design at Anthropic where he works on cutting edge AI products like Claude. After 80+ episodes, I can honestly say this one’s “juice per minute” score is off the charts.

Some of my favorite highlights:

How the team prototyped Claude Artifacts
New mental models for designing AI products
The way designers shape strategy at Anthropic
How to master the dark art of prompting as a designer
The future of language as the dominant interface for AI
Designing for infinite degrees of freedom vs. user journeys
How Joel designed his interview process at Airtable/Anthropic
a lot more…

The CEO of Anthropic (Dario Amodei)’s essay: Machines of Loving Grace
A new 3 minute video showing how the team built Claude Artifacts
Chad Thornton was the Head of Design at Airtable
Everett Katigbak is the Brand Creative Director at Anthropic
Kim Bost is the design leader Joel collaborates with a lot
Joel mentioned Jason Yuan’s interview about designing AI products with soul

Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas

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