March 2026
Dispatch — We also shipped Dispatch for Cowork and Claude Code. A new way to get Claude to do stuff when you're AFK.
Jenny Wen
Most recently, I was design lead for our friend, Claude and our general purpose agent, Cowork at Anthropic. Before that, I was Director of Design at Figma, where I led the products and teams at the frontier of our business (FigJam, Slides, Figma Buzz, Sites CMS, Community, and Growth). As a designer, I brought FigJam to market, poured myself into so many little details, and grew it into a tool people love using.
In lots of parts of my life, I'm a generalist. I'm good at helping teams be more ambitious together. To imagine novel solutions, to ship higher quality products, and most importantly—to have fun through it all.
March 2026
The design process is dead — I got to chat with Lenny about how design work is changing in the AI era. We talked about what still matters most: craft, judgment, and shipping.
January 2026
Claude Cowork — After a ton of experimentation and internal prototyping, we launched Cowork. I set the vision for the product earlier in 2025 and also had a ton of fun executing on it, pushing PRs, and helping it grow quickly after launch.
September 2025
Don't trust the process — I shared a bit about how I've started to see teams working, especially given all the changes in AI-first tooling. Surprisingly, it really resonated with one group of people and was very controversial with another.
March 2025
Claude.ai visual refresh — As my first project at Anthropic, I led a visual redesign of Claude.ai — refreshing the look and feel, unshipping stuff, tightening a lot of small details, and making the product feel more coherent as it kept growing.
November 2024
Navigating a design career — The Figma at Waterloo crew had me over to chat about career stuff. I came with a few lessons I learned from my career, and I left with hope and optimism about the design community in Waterloo.
June 2024
Figma Slides — I had the honor of supporting Keeyen Yeo, Khalil Cader, and Jakub Swiadek through the year in which they launched Figma's third product.
June 2024
Why we build what we build — A short panel for the Leadership Collective at Config 2024 around the things we build at Figma. In collab with Katie Szeto, Marcel Weekes, and Sho Kuwamato
March 2024
Dive Club — Got to chat with Ridd about designing for delight and how we made FigJam.
November 2023
FigJam AI — We launched a bundle of AI features — summarization, clustering, board generation, and Jambot. I'm very proud to have supported the team that made this happen: Natasha Tenggoro, Rocky Chen, Aosheng Ran, Matt Chan, and many other cross-functional folks.
June 2023
Putting joy on the roadmap — A battle cry to make software less boring and more joyful. I did this talk twice—at CanUX in October 2022, and at Config in June 2023 with Mihika Kapoor and Keeyen Yeo. And I also got to host Config again— this time on the big stage, in front of 8,000 people.
May 2023
First Round Angel Track — I had the privilege of joining First Round's Spring 2023 cohort to kick off my investing journey. Investing always felt like a black box process, with lots going on behind closed doors. But Angel Track peeled back the curtain and made me a more intentional investor.
April 2023
Building a product people love — A Q&A I did with Designer Fund. I got to talk shop about FigJam, raising the craft bar, designing with business objectives in mind, and running workshops.
December 2022
Design hiring fireside chat — For Figma's Early Career Week, I got to be on a panel with some stellar industry leaders. We chatted about how to stand out and get hired as an early career designer.
August 2022
FigJam onboarding — An experiment we ran that had new users pick between four simple templates. Such a fun one to jam with Andrew Schmidt on.
February 2022
Quality of life updates — Our first quality-of-life drop of the year! I worked on adding resizing to sticky notes, custom colors, and a wider set of font sizes. Still keeping a simple, opinionated set of defaults, but also allowing more powerful customization for those who need it.
November 2021
This or that widget — For the launch of widgets in FigJam, I fiddled around with the new widget API and made a little poll with just two choices. Perfect for this or that, yes or no, would you rather, and other divisive questions.
November 2021
Word magnets — Turn any text in your FigJam or design file into a set of fridge magnets. Great for writers' block or a team poetry writing jam.
November 2021
FigJam templates — No need to start from scratch anymore. I designed the end-to-end experience of templates — bringing our Community's best templates directly into the product.
May 2021
Layout: Designing FigJam — Keeyen and I got to share a bit about the behind the scenes of FigJam with Kevin and Rafa.
April 2021
Introducing FigJam — I spent most of 2020 driving the direction, leading the design and executing on the details for the launch of FigJam.
I designed the core experience for FigJam's launch — its shapes, sticky notes, text, and all of their core interactions. I also designed cursor chat, emotes, and reactions.
April 2021
Short stories from the making of FigJam — Config 2021 was honestly a really big moment for me! I hosted the first day of our annual user conference. I also did a talk with Emily Lin and Priya Kotak on how we made FigJam.
June 2020
Designing your design career — A talk for UW/UX (a club near and dear to my heart) on navigating early career opportunities and internships. I also shared my favourite goal setting framework, which you can try out, too.
February 2020
A beautiful mess — A Q&A talk I did with Lizhi Fan on the messiness of how design and engineering work together at Figma.
November 2019
Word count — In the spirit of Figma's plugins launch, I dipped my toes into our plugin API. It was surprisingly easy to use and I ended up making this popular plugin. Really proud of myself for remembering how to do recursion, without looking it up.
October 2019
Community and collaboration — My first launch at Figma! I worked closely with Rasmus Andersson on the first version of our Community, alongside a refresh of our file browser.
January 2019
Interface Lovers — A little feature I got to to do, where I shared some of my experiences working on Dropbox Paper and revealed to everyone that I used an Android.
