You don't need a hundred design prompts. You need five you trust and actually reuse.
Generate options, not answers
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
Make the output reviewable
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.