In mid 2026, my company adopted Cursor as its primary AI tool, rolling it out across all departments to accelerate workflows and improve productivity.
As part of this event, UX teams across the organization participated in a Cursor training session in July 2026 to explore how AI could:
Streamline research tasks and design process
Improve design handoff and collaboration.
The diagram below summarizes my key takeaways from the training and how I see AI reshaping the UX design process
I then started wondering… as a designer, why are we using AI to speed up thinking activities like creating personas, writing user stories, and synthesizing user interviews? Those are tasks that usually benefit from slow thinking, and discussion.
Instead, we seem to spend that effort creating skills, rules, and agents to generate prototypes faster.
Why? 🙄 I feel like AI is taking on more of the thinking, while we focus on designing workflows and systems to produce results. Am I the only one feeling this shift?