A hands-on prompting workshop for designers

Design
Prompting
Techniques

Say what you feelsee.

How to get the picture in your head out of the model.

too vague!

name it,
measure it,
or point at it.

Vadivel

Director of Product Design

20+ years in design.
I run on one idea: simplicity.

Round 1 · T starts

07:00

Round 1 · results

How close did you get?

Is this what you pictured?

What stopped you?

It was not the model.

Ravi at his front gate with a coffee mug, looking at his overgrown garden. A white garden robot steps out of a delivery box, giving a thumbs up.

A short story

Meet Ravi. He bought a garden robot.

Smart. Fast. Eager to help.

One habit: it does exactly what Ravi says.

Eight days later

Was the robot wrong even once?

Every single day, it did exactly what Ravi said.

The gap was never in the robot.

It was in the instruction.

So why did mine work?

Not a better model.
A better brief.

same model
as yours.

different words.

Round 1 next to Round 2

Same model. Same you.

What changed in your words?

Hold your screen up next to mine.

Name one difference. In precise words.

A good first output is not the end

Change one thing. Then stop.

Change only the vase size to 170px.
Touch nothing else.

“make it better” is Ravi's Day 4.

The better the design, the fewer the changes.

Three things to take home

01
The model is never wrong about what you said.The gap is in the instruction. Be Ravi on day nine.
02
Replace every feeling word.With a name, a number, or a rule.
03
Words carry shape and meaning. Sizes need numbers.Describe the whole first, then one part at a time.

Say what you see.

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Thank you.

Now go and say what you feelsee.

questions?

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Vadivel

Thank you.

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