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20 AI prompts for Design
Art direction, image prompts, design systems and critique.
Written and tested for The AI University. Each carries its variables, a usage guide and the cases where it will let you down. Free with an account.
20 prompts
- Designimage
Art-Directed Image Prompt
Turns a rough visual idea into a fully art-directed image prompt — subject, lens, light, palette and composition — plus the negative constraints.
MidjourneyFluxNano Banana+1000Open → - Design
Design Critique Against the Job
Critiques a design against what it is supposed to accomplish rather than against taste, and separates the two clearly where they conflict.
ClaudeChatGPTGemini000Open → - Design
Design System Token Audit
Finds where a design system has drifted — one-off values, near-duplicate tokens, and the components that stopped using it.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Design
UX Copy Pass
Rewrites interface copy so it says what will happen, in the user's words, at the moment they need it.
ClaudeChatGPTGemini000Open → - Design
Accessibility Audit Brief
Audits a design or page against WCAG in priority order, separating what blocks people from what is merely non-conformant.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Designimage
Product Photography Prompt
Specifies the lighting setup and the surface, which is what separates a product photograph from a render.
MidjourneyFluxNano Banana+1000Open → - Designimage
Consistent Character Prompt
Locks the describable invariants, since models drift on everything left unspecified between generations.
MidjourneyFluxNano Banana000Open → - Designimage
UI Concept Prompt
Describes hierarchy and density, since models default to a generic dashboard when those are unspecified.
MidjourneyFluxNano Banana+1000Open → - Designimage
Illustration System Brief
Defines the rules that make twenty illustrations look like one set rather than twenty individual pictures.
ClaudeChatGPTMidjourney000Open → - Design
Logo Exploration Brief
Briefs on what the mark must survive rather than on style, since the constraints are what determine the design.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Designimage
Hero Section Concept
Makes the image support the headline's claim rather than decorate around it.
MidjourneyFluxNano Banana+1000Open → - Design
Infographic Brief
Holds to one takeaway per graphic, since an infographic with six findings communicates none of them.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Design
Design Handoff Spec
Specifies behaviour and states rather than appearance, because developers need the rules and can read the pixels themselves.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Design
Responsive Behaviour Spec
Defines what reflows and what is hidden per component, rather than per page, so the rules compose.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Design
Motion Specification
Specifies duration and easing, since unspecified motion becomes a default that feels cheap.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Design
Dark Mode Adaptation
Treats dark mode as a re-design of elevation and depth rather than an inversion of colours.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Designimage
Icon Set Brief
Prioritises consistent optical weight over grid adherence, which is what actually makes a set look like one.
ClaudeChatGPTMidjourney000Open → - Design
Presentation Deck Design Pass
Puts one idea per slide with the title stating the idea, rather than naming the topic.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Design
Email Template Design
Designs for the clients that break, since the constraint set is the brief in email.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open → - Design
Form Design Review
Makes every field justify itself against the drop-off it causes, since each one costs completions.
ClaudeChatGPT000Open →