Dear Reader,
Today, it's time to tackle that AI tool everyone is talking about: Chat GPT...
Chat GPT (short for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a natural language processing tool that is blowing up.
The tool got to a million users in only five days. To put that into context, Facebook took ten months, and Netflix took three years to get to a million users.
If you haven’t heard of Chat GPT, it’s your new robot assistant/overlord.
Here are the tasks that are ripe for AI assistance in UX design:
a.k.a. asking Chat GPT to summarize a text
Who has time to read those whitepapers, industry blog posts, and user interviews? Chat GPT can give you TL;DR summaries of long text blocks.
Prompt examples for summarizing:
a.k.a. seeking answers to basic questions using Chat GPT
Before there was Chat GPT, you had to use the first page of Google to get informed about a topic. Now you can understand common knowledge without diving through tons of websites.
Prompt examples for searching:
a.k.a. doing desk research with Chat GPT
Chat GPT is the best desk research tool on the planet. It’s particularly good at describing common knowledge. Chat GPT is a great place to start and end a research project.
Prompt examples for researching:
a.k.a. asking Chat GPT things to improve your design process
“What sort of design method works best for testing new ideas?” That’s an example of a question you might ask if you need inspiration about which design method to use. “What are some ways to design for mobile?” That’s another example of how you could be inspired during a design project.
Prompt examples for inspiring:
a.k.a. asking Chat GPT to make stuff
Chat GPT is currently limited to text responses but is still very creative. You can ask it to generate wireframes, SVGs, and HTML code. All you need is the right prompts and context.
Prompt examples for creating:
a.k.a. Asking Chat GPT to adapt content to specific types of people
Personalizing lets you customize your work to a specific character. Let’s say you want to write some micro-copy for a site. “Design me a wireframe for an interface that does taxes for a Virgo.” Adding “for a Virgo” here generates a practical and organized wireframe, the classic traits of a Virgo.
Prompt examples for personalizing:
a.k.a. asking Chat GPT to play a character
Chat GPT is very good at providing feedback or expertise while acting as various characters. The only limit is your imagination. You could have Chat GPT act as a Tech CEO, engineer, statistician, or even a user persona. All you need is a description of that character’s role, and you will have an instant approximation of the stakeholder. You can use this AI stakeholder to bounce ideas and get feedback on design work.
Prompt examples for roleplaying:
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There are also 35 Chat GPT prompts you can use to get started in AI-assisted design immediately:
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Until next week!
Jeff Humble
Designer & Co-Founder
The Fountain Institute
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