Designing with AI
In early 2026 I completely pivoted my design process from using Figma, Figjam, Google Docs, Confluence pages, and more to one that starts and ends with Cursor, Claude, and Glean. I not only used AI for my own design projects but I also started building tools for my team to use. Here are some examples.
Fully-integrated Cursor process
In the last week I was one of the heaviest power users of Cursor across my whole company. I've been creating end-to-end prototypes to communicate concepts, test ideas with customers, and demo designs to stakeholders.
Cursor skill
Say "sandbox this" and my Cursor skill maps a cursor design to our design-system components. It produces a translation report showing valid mappings vs. custom elements. The say "generate" to sandbox components with Storybook all using design system imports and tokens instead of hardcoded values.
Design tools