John Bai - The Grok Bot design journey

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")