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A designer's guide to Cursor: How to build interactive prototypes with sound, explore visual styles, and transform data visualizations | Elizabeth Lin

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A designer's guide to Cursor: How to build interactive prototypes with sound, explore visual styles, and transform data visualizations | Elizabeth Lin

How I AI

2025/06/16
How I AI

How I AI

2025/06/16
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Elizabeth Lin is an independent design educator who has crafted learning experiences for Khan Academy, Primer, and Lambda School. She currently runs design is a party, an alternative online design school where she teaches courses like The Art of Visual Des...

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Elizabeth Lin, an independent design educator and Cursor power user, discusses how designers can harness AI tools to enhance creativity and streamline workflows. Through her experience teaching at platforms like Khan Academy and Primer, Elizabeth demonstrates practical applications of Cursor for interactive prototyping, aesthetic exploration, and transforming basic designs into polished interfaces.
05:08
Prompt Cursor for design styles like Vaporwave and cyberpunk
11:01
Reprompting Cursor transforms a basic site into different styles.
15:19
A functional piano prototype was created with cute sounds.
16:30
Having a baseline understanding shows what's possible without needing all details
18:28
AI makes sound design and interactivity more accessible for designers.
21:00
Teach AI tools like Cursor better design taste by refining prompts.
27:34
Using prompts teaches AI good taste in design
29:23
Cursor can be used to integrate with Notion databases for prototyping apps.
31:13
To handle uncooperative AI, repeat prompts or restart.

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Introduction to Elizabeth
00:00
Demo: Exploring different visual styles with Cursor
02:20
Comparing different design iterations from the same prompt
08:20
Building a working piano prototype with one prompt
12:35
Understanding what’s happening behind the scenes
16:30
Practical design team scenarios using Cursor
18:28
Step-by-step walkthrough of transforming an ugly finance dashboard
21:00
Using targeted prompts to improve layout and visual design
27:29
Building data-driven prototypes powered by Notion databases
29:22
Lightning round and final thoughts
31:12

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Elizabeth Lin: Working with Cursor has really taught me that tools like Cursor can actually be extremely creative. Claire Vo: How do you teach an LLM to have good taste? Elizabeth Lin: The biggest key is to broaden your sources of inspiration and help th...