AI Powered Portfolio Cheat Sheet
Portfolio Prompt Design Cheat-Sheet
Prompt engineering creates language that is easier for an A.I. to understand what we want and what we don’t want. Here are examples of prompts you can use to explore prompt engineering for your portfolio.
Principles of Good Prompt Crafting
Your outputs are only as good as what you put in (garbage in = garbage out).
You can get close, but you will need to edit and refine what comes out.
Start small, be specific and experiment.
Prompts Ingredients
💡 Use these prompts to experiment and create your own content.
1. Objective Prompts
📕 The more specific you are the better answers or responses you will get. Define what you’re looking for, what you don’t want and what good looks like.
🤖 Create 8 project titles for a designer case study. I will send a message with context around the case study. You will wait until my next message then send me an outline only of a case study using that context.
🤖 I just completed a project as a designer at ACME inc. Your aim is to turn that project into a case study for my portfolio. I want you to ask me one question at a time about the project. Only ask 8 questions total. Then after all 8 questions have been answered send my responses back to me in the form of a design case study.
🤖 Your aim is to craft impactful titles for a website case study. The case study is for a junior designer’s portfolio. it should focus on why the project is important, what problem it solves and how it helps people. it should not mention any parts of the design process. It should mention the user at least once in the title. I will send you a description of the project. After I send “DONE”, you will then send me 10 options for titles.
2. Set Identity Prompts
📕 You can roleplay with ChatGPT to simulate advice, interviews and conversations with different kinds of people. Define roles, experiences and specialisation then ask questions and guide roleplay.
🤖 You are a professional design researcher. You have been running market research projects with large teams to understand language gamification for over 10 years. You specialise in large population research for the mobile market.
🤖 You are a recruiter for a software development company that focusses on sustainable technology. You have been tasked with hiring a user experience design.
🤖 You are a career adviser. You have been helping young professional women (aged 50-70) on navigating career changes to find their dream job for the past 20 years.
3. Give Context and Data in Multiple Messages
📕 Sometimes you want to feed extra information or send it in short bursts. It’s best to keep instructions to only feeding in data and waiting until you tell it your done. Be aware, chat GPT can only remember the last 3000 words of the current conversation.
🤖 Context: “{insert context here}”
🤖 I’m going to send information about the context, don’t do anything or reply until I say: DONE. Then wait for my next message.
🤖 I will send multiple messages with context around a case study project that I have completed as a designer. You will wait until a message says “DONE” then you will send me 8 title ideas. Confirm you understand by saying yes. Then only respond with “waiting for the next message” until you receive “DONE” as a message.
4. Constraint Output and Being Specific.
📕 Use these sentences to constrain and set direction.
🤖 Do not _____
Stay away from, _____
I want you to replace _____ with more ____, keep _______.
I want you to only reply with _________
I will give/type _____ and you will ______
I will provide you with details related to ______
You may choose ____ but the aim is. My first request is “__”
Your goal is __________.
You will __________
What is your first _______
My first sentence is _______
For faster testing you can instruct GPT to remove any “filler” text and give straight answers.
🤖 [Return just the main response. Take out the pre-text and post-text]
5. Writing styles and Formatting
📕 Use writing styles to explore voice and different methods of storytelling.
Style examples: Chip Heath, Seth Godin, Simon Sinek, Mark Twain, Bill Bryson, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, William Shakespeare
🤖 [Guide to voice and style: Write at a 5th grade level. Use clear and simple language, even when explaining complex matters. lean toward short sentences. Don’t use jargon or acronyms.]
🤖 [Voice and style guide: Write in a casual, friendly way, as if you were telling a friend about something. Use natural language and phrases that a real person would use: in normal conversations]
🤖 [Format your response using markdown. Use headings, subheadings, bullet points, and bold to organize the information]
🤖 [Voice and style guide: Use a convincing tone, rhetorical questions, and stories to keep the reader interested. Use similes, metaphors, and other literary tools to make your points easier to understand and remember. [Write in a way that is both educational and fun.]]
🤖 Rephrase this text “add your text here” in [style]
🤖 eli5 (explain like I am 5)
6. Learning new UX or Design Skills
Use these prompts to support your learning and design process. Even if your experienced in design these prompts are a great way to check yourself and explore other perspectives.
🤖 “What are the first things I should learn as a new UX Researcher? ”
🤖 “What is an example outline of steps I need to go through to plan a research study?”
🤖 “What are all the steps I need to carry out when preparing to conduct [customer interviews / concept testing / usability testing]?
🤖 “How can I measure product market fit?”
🤖 “What are some ways that venture capitalists have measured product market fit?”
🤖 “What are the best ways of measuring and tracking customer engagement?”