Full Tutorial: Design to Code in 45 Min with Cursor's Head of Design | Ryo Lu

As the head of design at Cursor, Ryo is at the cutting edge of
designers who ship code instead of mocks. He showed me how he
built a retro OS with AI and did a live demo of adding a new
feature using Cursor’s new agent mode. We also covered how to
avoid AI design slop and how the Cursor team reached $29B
valuation without full-time PMs.





Ryo and I talked about:


(00:00) Why designers should go directly to code


(02:06) Building a retro calculator app in one shot with plan
mode


(08:04) How Ryo manages multiple AI agents at once in Cursor


(15:18) How Cursor builds without PMs and who does the PM work
instead


(16:43) How to avoid creating purple AI design slop (it’s not
prompting)


(20:01) Inside RyOS: A beautiful retro operating system built
with AI


(30:22) How to turn vague ideas into detailed specs with Cursor


(37:47) The fastest way for PMs and designers to learn Cursor





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Get the takeaways:
https://creatoreconomy.so/p/design-to-code-with-cursor-head-of-design-ryo-luWhere
to find Rio:


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Website: https://ryo.lu/





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