Jenny Wen: preference

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…Okay. So a lot of your time you spend working with engineers, giving feedback, nudging them in the right direction. There's a sense, I feel, of just your advice is let go. Don't feel like you need to be this gatekeeper, but there's this piece of, okay, help them move in a direction that is cohesive and is creating products we're proud of. A lot of designers I think are in this boat right now, just like, "Oh my God, I can't keep up with all these engineers shipping stuff all day." What's something you learned about just either how to help your engineers get better at design so that it just ends up being better, or just keeping on top of this and not going crazy? Whenever I do work with engineers on projects, and it's more on a consulting basis, I do just try to explain why I'm thinking a way that I'm thinking, to help them extract principles. As opposed to me just being like, "No, I don't think this should go here." It's like, "No, I think we should have a button here because not everybody realizes you can prompt this. " And here's an example where it comes from research and whatnot. So I also just try to point engineers to our design system and stuff like that in code, because right now Claude is writing a lot of the code and it's not always picking up stuff in the design system and whatnot. So as much as I can equip them with stuff that they can use in the future without me, if that's helpful. And then on your point of trying not to go crazy, I think it's hard. I think it's really hard right now. And I see this a lot from actually both engineers and designers, where it's like now that we're sort of capable of doing so much, we want to do more. And so I think it'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 right now?" So that's something I'm hearing a lot. So true. Oh man, how to keep up with all our agents, our seven agents we're constantly running?…

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