Kyle Turman - Designing Claude and collaborating with AI
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Kyle Turman - Designing Claude and collaborating with AI

Anthropic has quickly become a category-defining company and in this episode Kyle Turman (their first full-time designer) shares a behind-the-scenes of what it was like designing Claude.

If you’re interested in startups, AI products, or the art of prompting then this conversation will be right up your alley.

Some highlights:

  • Kyle’s story of wearing every hat for Claude
  • What it’s like designing conversational UX flows
  • How Kyle uses Claude in his personal design process
  • Why Kyle only half-finished his Claude designs in Figma
  • How Kyle thinks about designing for emotion and feeling
  • How Kyle thinks about the future of design as a discipline
  • Kyle’s thoughts on whether chat should the dominant pattern for AI
  • a lot me

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