What started as an experiment eventually became a complete shift in how I think about building. In the beginning, I was just curious, translating Figma components into Cursor one by one to see if a visual system could actually function as code. Those early tests quickly turned into a much larger, structured effort to operationalize the entire design system from the ground up.

I spent a lot of time at the atomic level, carefully defining buttons, inputs, and spacing tokens as individual building blocks rather than finished screens. It was a phase that required a lot of patience and repetition, but it was the only way to lay a foundation that could actually scale. When I started applying this to company work, the process became even more intentional. It was a cycle of uploading, structuring, and validating, over and over again, until the environment finally "learned" exactly how the product was built.

Once the full library lived inside Cursor, the daily grind of design fundamentally changed. Since the visual decisions were already baked into the system, I stopped designing pages from scratch. Instead, the work became about orchestration. I would define the layout intent, the hierarchy, the templates, and the structural rules, and communicate that through prompts.

Suddenly, screens weren't being drawn anymore; they were being assembled. Interfaces started emerging from instructions rather than manual duplication. It was a total shift from manual composition to system-driven generation. I was no longer just a designer of screens, but a director of a system that already spoke the product's language, allowing me to explore edge cases and iterate in real time at a scale that traditional prototyping just can’t touch.