Cursor Blueprint
- Role
- Senior Product Designer
- Timeline
- Q1 '26
- Team
- 4 cross-functional members
Cursor Blueprint is a designer enablement program I initiated at Zendesk to expand what our team could build and prototype. After discovering Cursor as a tool, I proposed its adoption to the VP of Design as a way to unlock advanced prototyping workflows — particularly for edge cases where Figma fell short.
Cursor guide
Over two months, I designed a comprehensive onboarding guide for Product Designers to get started with Cursor from scratch. Alongside the written guide, I ran a hands-on workshop for the design team, showcasing real examples I had built in Cursor during live Zendesk projects.
Sandbox Project
To lower the barrier to entry, I partnered with a small group of engineers to create a Sandbox project — a pre-configured, static version of Zendesk built on our internal design system, Garden. This gave designers a safe, familiar environment to experiment in without needing to set up tooling from scratch.
Results
The guide and Sandbox project together gave our design team the confidence and infrastructure to incorporate AI-assisted tooling across the full product development lifecycle — from early-stage exploration all the way through to high-fidelity prototypes used in customer interviews and engineering handoffs.