Ryo Lu: The Way

What is the future of design in a post-AI world?

Ryo Lu pioneered new patterns for collaboration as founding designer at Notion. He now leads design at Cursor, shaping how software gets built through a fusion of design and engineering.

In this conversation with Soleio, he explains Cursor's approach to design and how the product will evolve to empower designers who build.

00:00 – Intro: The future of design

01:49 – What is design at Cursor?

02:50 – How the team actually works

04:46 – Generalists, Self-Starters, Ex-Founders

07:34 – Building Cursor inside Cursor

10:45 – The next level: Agents & Abstraction

13:48 – Pattern language

18:24 – A lingua franca for builders

20:34 – Baby Cursor