{"id":313849,"date":"2025-12-13T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313849\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:35:21","slug":"cursor-launches-an-ai-coding-tool-for-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313849\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup<\/a>, is launching a new feature that lets people design the look and feel of web applications with AI. The tool, Visual Editor, is essentially a vibe-coding product for designers, giving them access to the same fine-grained controls they\u2019d expect from professional design software. But in addition to making changes manually, the tool lets them request edits from Cursor\u2019s AI agent using natural language.<\/p>\n

Cursor is best known for its AI coding platform, but with Visual Editor, the startup wants to capture other parts of the software creation process. \u201cThe core that we care about, professional developers, never changes,\u201d Cursor\u2019s head of design, Ryo Lu, tells WIRED. \u201cBut in reality, developers are not by themselves. They work with a lot of people, and anyone making software should be able to find something useful out of Cursor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cursor is one of the fastest growing AI startups of all time. Since its 2023 debut, the company says it has surpassed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue and counts tens of thousands of companies, including Nvidia, Salesforce, and PwC, as customers. In November, the startup closed a $2.3 billion funding round that brought its valuation to nearly $30 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cursor was an early leader in the AI coding market, but it\u2019s now facing more pressure than ever from larger competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The startup has historically licensed AI models from these companies, but now its rivals are investing heavily in AI coding products of their own. Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code, for example, grew even faster than Cursor, reaching $1 billion in annual recurring revenue<\/a> just six months after launch. In response, Cursor has started developing and deploying its own AI models.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, building software applications has required many different teams working together across a wide range of products and tools. By integrating design capabilities directly into its coding environment, Cursor wants to show that it can bring these functions together into a single platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, designers used to live in their own world of pixels and frames, and they don’t really translate to code. So teams had to build processes to hand off tasks back and forth between developers and designers, but there was a lot of friction,\u201d says Lu. \u201cWe kind of melded the design world and the coding world together into one interface with one AI agent.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI-Powered Web Design<\/p>\n

In a demo at WIRED\u2019s San Francisco headquarters, Cursor\u2019s product engineering lead Jason Ginsberg showcased how Visual Editor could modify the aesthetics of a webpage.<\/p>\n

A traditional design panel on the right lets users adjust fonts, add buttons, create menus, or change backgrounds. On the left, a chat interface accepts natural-language requests, such as \u201cmake this button\u2019s background color red.\u201d Cursor\u2019s agent then applies those changes directly into the code base.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Cursor released its own web browser that works directly within its coding environment. The company argues the browser creates a better feedback loop when developing products, allowing engineers and designers to view requests from real users and access Chrome-style developer tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature that lets people design the look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,7295,9218,1120,86,56,54,55,124737],"class_list":["post-313849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chatbots","tag-coding","tag-design","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-ux-ui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}