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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 one of my favorite, any sort of use case that I really like out of cowork, is just giving it a folder of my stuff, and it doesn't really matter what's in that folder, but I'm able to extract something good out of it.”
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…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? That's a good description. I actually haven't heard that, but I like that. I might use it more often as Claude with hands. I also think about it as it's like Claude, but Claude is really good at taking all your garbage and then turning it into something nice. I think one of my favorite, any sort of use case that I really like out of cowork, is just giving it a folder of my stuff, and it doesn't really matter what's in that folder, but I'm able to extract something good out of it. I've done that many times. Okay. Coming back to managing and being a manager and the role of a designer, I'm going to talk about hiring for a little bit. So seeing how much is changing in the role of a designer, what do you look for that's maybe new? What do you now look for when you're hiring designers, that you think is really important for them to be successful in this new world?…
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