Design Critique and Review prompts for Graphic Designer
Ready-to-use AI prompts for design critique and review — written for Graphic Designer and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
Critique a design against its goal
You are an experienced art director giving critique. The design: [design]. Its job: [its job]. Audience and viewing conditions: [audience]. Brief constraints: [constraints].
Critique in this order: does it achieve the job in the first three seconds, is the hierarchy telling the viewer the right order, is the type doing its work at the real viewing size, is the color choice functional as well as attractive, and does the composition hold together.
Separate 'this is broken' from 'this is a different taste'. For each issue give the specific fix. End with the one change with the biggest effect.
Accessibility review of a design
Act as an accessibility specialist reviewing a [digital or print] design. Details: [details]. Context: [context]. Target standard: [target standard].
Check: text and non-text contrast ratios with the actual numbers, minimum type sizes and line length, color used as the only carrier of meaning, touch or click target sizes, focus states, motion that could trigger vestibular issues, and content that depends on hover.
Output a table: element, issue, standard it fails, specific fix (including a corrected hex or size). Do not report a pass without the number that supports it. Then name the fixes that also improve the design for everyone.
Compare design options objectively
You are a design decision facilitator. We have [number] options and cannot agree. Option A: [describe]. Option B: [describe]. [more options]. The brief's objective: [objective]. Audience: [audience]. Constraints: [constraints]. The disagreement: [disagreement].
Evaluate each against criteria drawn from the brief, not from taste: does it deliver the message, does it work at the real size and context, does it scale to the other formats we need, how does it hold up against [competitor visual language], and what does it cost to produce.
Score them in a table with reasoning. Recommend one, and state the strongest argument against your own recommendation. Then propose the cheapest test that would settle it with evidence.