Jenny Wen (Anthropic) — Craft is Counter-Intuitive | DLS 2025

DLS 2026: Design’s Unfinished Business · Nov 17–19, Toronto · Tickets: https://designleadership.io/ 👉 Jenny Wen, Design Leader at Anthropic and former Director of Product Design at Figma, shares insights on fostering great craft in an era increasingly influenced by AI. Leading design for FigJam, Slides, and other top-secret projects, she challenges conventional design processes—advocating for high-fidelity starts, intuition-driven decisions, deep detail focus, and last-minute iterations. She offers a fresh perspective on how embracing discomfort leads to breakthrough design excellence. This talk was presented at Design Leadership Summit 2025 (https://designleadership.io/), a two-day summit and one full-day workshop packed with incredible, relevant, and thought-provoking content for those practicing leadership at any level. _________ DesignX is Toronto's leading digital design community, focusing on topics on the intersection of design, business and technology. Find out more on: https://designx.community/