How does a Design Engineer ship features 2 weeks faster?

👋 Welcome to Sneak Peek with Jay, a series where you will see how top design teams use AI. In this interview you will see how Karl Koch (Design Engineer) uses Cursor to design in code at DuckDuckGo!

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🧠 Companion videos
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kejk/
• X: https://x.com/_kejk

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✂️ Video edited by Rishabh Tripathi
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabh-tripathi01/

00:00 Trailer
02:17 Guest intro
02:37 AI feature demo
04:28 Initial design explorations in Figma
07:30 Should you worry about pixel perfection?
10:40 Importing Figma designs into Cursor
12:54 Design system source of truth
15:03 Benefits of using Cursor vs Figma
18:49 Downside of one shotting stuff
26:49 Testing changes Cursor made
29:34 Shipping a PR live
29:53 Time savings by designing in Cursor vs Figma
34:54 Why design engineers prefer Cursor as their IDE

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