The Prompt Is the New Brief
- “Prompt engineering” can sound like a technical skill, but that image is not always accurate. In practice, good prompting is very much like writing a good design brief. Both require setting a goal, defining a target audience, setting constraints, providing context, and establishing evaluation criteria.
- Designers are already doing these activities in practice. They have skills in writing briefs that they have developed during their careers that directly translate to fluency in AI prompting – they just might not have made the connection.
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- June 30, 2026
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