Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas

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