Grok Bot has been going viral the last two weeks so this week's episode is a behind-the-scenes of the design journey with John Bai (who was the first NYC design hire at Cursor).
He screen-shares a ton of agent interaction pattern ideas as well as his unused concepts for the Grok Bot onboarding flow.
Some highlights:
- The prototype that led to the Grok Bot mascot
- Why John realized chat was still the right UX for AI
- How John uses agents to streamline his Figma work
- Comparing John's onboarding concepts for Grok Bot
- Why John still starts his design explorations in Figma
- What it took to turn AI agents into a consumer product
- Why no two designers at Cursor have the same tools/process
- + a lot more
Ridd mentioned Colin Dunn’s episode ("informed simplicity")