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")