Tag · 10 guides

Prompting

Every guide tagged prompting, sorted by most recent.

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Teach AI Who You Are

Create a portable personal profile file so AI understands your role, taste, tools, voice, boundaries, and the kind of design help you actually want.

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What to Do When AI Gives You Junk

A practical troubleshooting guide for designers: diagnose bad AI output, recover with better context, and know when to restart instead of polishing.

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The Taste Stack: Project Rules, Local Markdown, and Skills

Why AI-generated websites look the same, and how to fix it with a three-layer system that teaches your AI tool your visual standards, motion language, and copy tone.

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How to Describe Design Styles to AI

Turn vague style words like retro, premium, or playful into precise art direction that AI can actually use.

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The Design Style Phrasebook

20 style directions with exact phrase blocks you can copy into Claude, Nano Banana, Kling, or any AI tool. Stop saying 'make it premium' and start giving real direction.

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Prompting Basics for Designers

Write better prompts for AI tools. Practical patterns for design work: component generation, token audits, documentation, and more.

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How to Prompt Claude to Audit a Figma Design

A 5-version walkthrough showing how a bare prompt becomes a production-ready design audit. Built on the same iterative method Anthropic teaches internally.

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How to Write Better AI Prompts for Landing Pages

A formula-based approach to prompting AI for landing pages that convert, not just landing pages that look nice.

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How to Use AI to Explore Multiple Visual Directions Fast

A practical workflow for using AI to generate multiple distinct visual directions before committing to one, so you choose between strong alternatives instead of polishing a single idea too early.

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Screenshot to UX Critique

Turn any interface screenshot into actionable UX and UI feedback using a structured critique prompt and a six-lens evaluation framework.

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