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Published · transcript-backedJenny Wen: belief
1 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)
“I think for some reason that became the viral thing that got taken away from all of the cowork announcements, is that it only took 10 days, but I think there have just been so many different explorations, and people that have worked on different pieces of cowork, that it was not just 10 days, and there was a lot of different people involved.”
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- 1 Mar 2026
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…I love that you shared that it wasn't just 10 days to do this thing. There's these numbers that people throw out there, "We built it in 10 days." And your point is there was time spent thinking about what direction it should go, and prototyping, mocking, trying stuff. And then it's like, okay, now we know what we want it to be. Let's build it and ship it. Yeah. I think for some reason that became the viral thing that got taken away from all of the cowork announcements, is that it only took 10 days, but I think there have just been so many different explorations, and people that have worked on different pieces of cowork, that it was not just 10 days, and there was a lot of different people involved. It's one of those things where it's like the idea kept coming back, and it's never the right moment or there's different variations of it, and then all of a sudden it's the right moment and it feels like, oh, so obvious all along, but there was a long, long journey to get there. And by the way, for people that don't know much about cowork, the way I think about it, it's like Claude with hands, or to do stuff on your computer. How would you describe it, just in a sentence or two?…
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