Experience Design Prompt Engineering

What is Prompt Engineering?

Prompt engineering is the art of crafting precise and strategic instructions to guide AI systems in generating accurate, relevant, and creative outputs. It involves structuring inputs with clarity, context, and examples to maximize the effectiveness of AI responses, much like a dialogue between a skilled communicator and a responsive partner. By tailoring prompts to specific tasks or goals, prompt engineering transforms AI into a versatile tool for solving problems, sparking creativity, and enhancing productivity across diverse fields, from UX design to content creation and beyond.

Prompting is writing clear instructions

Even OpenAI says the first step in getting better ChatGPT results is to write clear instructions. What does that mean when working with an "Augmenting Intelligence" tool? It means:

• Include details in your query to get more relevant answers

• Ask the model to adopt a persona

• Use delimiters to clearly indicate distinct parts of the input

• Specify the steps required to complete a task

• Provide examples

• Specify the desired length of the output

uxGPT: Mastering AI Assistants for User Experience Designers and Product Managers

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An essential read with practical strategies to harness AI Assistants to plan and brainstorm user experience and product management activities. By mastering these prompts within the design thinking process, you'll unlock new ways to streamline workflows and generate innovative solutions.

Effective Prompts for UX and Experience Design Tasks

Here are some of the top prompt engineering techniques and frameworks for practical application in UX, experience and product design tasks.

CAREful prompts from NN/g

Kanika B K

CARE: Context, Ask, Rules, Examples

CAREful prompts from NN/g:

• Context: Describe the situation

• Ask: Request specific action

• Rules: Provide constraints

• Examples: Demonstrate what you want

Diamond Prompting

Diamond Prompting in UX Work from Jakob Nielsen:

Dual prompting approach between exploratory and detail-refining phases - alternating approaches to optimize.

RTF - Role, Task, Format

"Act like a [insert the role you want AI to take]. Give me a [insert task] in [insert format] format."

Example: Act like a Design Manager with 30 years of experience in mentoring. Give me a plan to improve my design craft in table format.

Chain of Thought

"[insert your prompt instructions]... Let's think through it step-by-step."

Example: "How do I improve my design hand-offs to engineering? I've had numerous developers message me several questions and I am not sure how to best meet their needs. Let's think through it step-by-step."

Diamond Prompting from Nielsen

RISEN - Role, Instructions, Steps, End goal, Narrowing

Role: [insert the role you want AI to take.]
Main Task: [Insert the task you want AI to complete.]
Steps to complete task: [Insert numbered list of steps to follow.]
End Goal: [Insert goal of the output]
Constraints: [Enter constraints]

CO-STAR

#Context#
#Objective#
#Style#
#Tone#
#Audience#
#Response#

9 Frameworks to Master ChatGPT Prompt Engineering

Medium Article from Kanika B K

About XD Prompts

Unlock AI's potential for assisting creative problem-solving and design with the art and science of prompt engineering.

From zero-shot strategies to multi-shot refinement, XD Prompts helps enables designers to focus on what they do best: crafting exceptional experiences.

XD Prompts is a collection of prompt engineering techniques, frameworks and examples for practical application in UX, experience and product design tasks.

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