Prompting as a Design Skill: From “Try This” to Repeatable Patterns

About this episode

Jackie discusses how to improve AI output by treating prompts as design documents.

AI output isn’t mysterious; it’s measurable. When we prompt like we’re chatting, we get content that feels generic and unpredictable. When we prompt like instructional designers, with audience, outcomes, constraints, and a definition of “good,” the same AI tool starts producing drafts you can actually reuse. In this episode, Jackie walks through a simple mindset shift that changes everything: a prompt is a mini design document. From there, we name the three biggest reasons one-off prompts fa...

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Host: Jackie Pelegrin

Topics covered

• AI design
• prompting techniques
• instructional design
• content creation
• design mindset

Keywords

• AI
• prompting
• design skills
• content reuse
• instructional design

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