Descriptions:
Peter Yang sits down with Jenny Wen, design lead at Anthropic, for a 40-minute look at how she uses Claude Co-work and Claude Code in her day-to-day product work. Wen describes a significant shift in how design happens at Anthropic: detailed Figma specs and milestone documents have largely given way to iterating directly on working prototypes alongside engineers, with Co-work serving as the connective layer across multiple concurrent projects.
Wen demonstrates Co-work’s folder-based memory approach—explaining how maintaining personal notes and project files in Co-work folders effectively gives the AI persistent context about her work, reducing her reliance on dedicated memory tools or custom skills. She shows how to generate presentations, configure scheduled Monday morning product briefs, and pipe outputs to Slack via MCP integration. She also discusses when custom skills add value versus when folder context alone suffices, and touches on internal Anthropic-branded skill templates used for docs and slides.
For product designers, AI builders, and anyone tracking how frontier AI teams actually incorporate their own tools into professional workflows, this conversation offers rare first-party perspective. Wen’s comments on how specs, Figma files, and cross-functional collaboration have evolved at Anthropic—as well as what she considers unresolved in Co-work’s UX—make this substantially more than a standard product tutorial.
📺 Source: Peter Yang · Published March 29, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
