Intro

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