AI design review

A structured critique you run in your own AI tool before a person sees the work. Shortcut gives you the prompt and the rubric; it does not inspect your design.

Craft guidance

1. Run this prompt

Attach your screen, fill in the brackets, and send it.

Prompt

Review this interface as a senior product designer.

Context:
- Product type: [e.g. enterprise dashboard]
- User and task: [who, doing what]
- Platform and viewport: [e.g. web, 1440 px]
- Design system: [name, or "custom"]

Do not redesign it immediately.

First evaluate: information hierarchy, alignment, spacing, typography, colour, accessibility, interaction states, information density, consistency and responsive behaviour.

Give every finding one type:
1. Standard requirement (name the standard and criterion)
2. Design-system issue (name the rule)
3. Industry convention
4. Craft guidance
5. Subjective preference

For every finding explain what you noticed, why it matters, its severity, and what I could try.

Where you cannot tell from the image, such as exact contrast or pixel values, say "verify" and tell me what to measure.

Do not invent WCAG requirements, design-system rules or research findings. If you are unsure whether something is a rule, say so.

Narrow it to a few areas with the Prompt Builder

2. Read each finding by its type

The prompt makes the model label every finding. The label tells you how much weight it carries. Never let a subjective point pass as an accessibility rule.

Standard requirement: A criterion in a published standard such as WCAG. Look the criterion up. If it applies, fix it.
Design-system issue: A departure from a rule in the system you have adopted. Check the system's own page. Fix it, or record why you differ.
Industry convention: A range or pattern many products use. Nobody requires it. Follow it unless you have a reason. Know the reason.
Craft guidance: Design-review judgement about hierarchy, spacing or clarity. Weigh it. A good reviewer would say the same, or would not.
Subjective preference: Taste. Yours to take or leave.

3. Verify before you act

Look up any WCAG criterion it cites.
Measure contrast and sizes yourself; models estimate these badly from images.
Treat type 4 and 5 findings as opinion.
Then run Before You Send It yourself. A model’s review is a first reader, not a sign-off.