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Every method from the course, one page

Pratt AI Design Certificate, Summer 2026. 103 methods grouped by the idea they belong to. Each lives on its class page with a working prompt.

keep the judgment human

  • Judge AI output with your own trained eyeclass 1
  • The sea-of-sameness checkclass 2
  • Pick the relationship on purposeclass 2
  • Make it fact-check itself before you read itclass 3
  • Choose approving or supervising on purposeclass 3
  • Judge your own custom instructionsclass 4
  • Diagnose your own hallucination firstclass 5
  • Diagnose the edit yourself firstclass 6
  • Map the workflow yourself firstclass 7
  • Decide if you need nodes at allclass 8
  • Argue with the first draftclass 9
  • Interpreter stress testclass 10
  • Place the review checkpointclass 11
  • Trace the bias to its layerclass 12
  • Check for the WEIRD defaultclass 12
  • The three judge promptsclass 14
  • The break-character testclass 15
  • Read the Configure tab before you trust itclass 15
  • Predict your Think Print before you take itclass 16
  • Predict the balancing loop before you askclass 17
  • Mark what the AI missedclass 17
  • Judge your own work firstclass 18
  • Build your constitution from real behaviorclass 18
  • Route the constrained parts to the machineclass 19
  • Spar with your rebel strategistclass 20
  • Villain modeclass 21
  • The story KPI testclass 21

structure your ask

  • Give it two keyframes instead of one descriptionclass 2
  • Speak the language of the internetclass 3
  • Write it as a GOLD blockclass 4
  • Write it as Format, then Subject, Details, Style and Parametersclass 5
  • Write it as Format, then Subject, Details, Motion, Style and Parametersclass 6
  • Structure the audio prompt separatelyclass 6
  • Tag each task Automate, Enhance or Adviseclass 7
  • Write your own GOLD promptclass 9
  • Boil the style down to 5 tagsclass 9
  • Interviewer modeclass 10
  • Give it an executive's jobclass 13
  • Say what you want rather than what you do notclass 13
  • Build the campaign systemclass 14
  • Build a persona with R.O.C.Kclass 15
  • Add a decision-logic layerclass 15
  • Prime before you generate anythingclass 16
  • State the real goal rather than the flattering oneclass 17
  • Place it on the innovation ladderclass 17
  • Pre-flight the prompt for IP riskclass 18
  • Write the persona nobody seesclass 19
  • Describe it like the reader can't see itclass 19
  • X-ray the briefclass 20
  • Logline ad libsclass 21

context beats prompts

  • Control the input and build graduallyclass 2
  • Show it your voice and not just the outputclass 3
  • Evolve the reference instead of restartingclass 5
  • Study your own image and then extend itclass 5
  • Build the turnaround sheet before you animate anythingclass 6
  • Prime a workspace instead of starting blankclass 7
  • Save a reusable prompt-enhancer presetclass 8
  • Build your writing-style guideclass 10
  • Store context onceclass 11
  • Build the tool rather than the chatclass 13
  • Feed it the thinking firstclass 14
  • Sketch before you promptclass 16
  • Run a provenance checkclass 18
  • Loop a GPT into a Projectclass 19
  • Make it study your archiveclass 20
  • Mine the data storyclass 21

go wide then narrow

  • The lateral reframeclass 2
  • Start a fresh chat instead of one long threadclass 3
  • Force the creative partner deeperclass 4
  • Run one question through a model councilclass 7
  • Forced Connectionsclass 10
  • Build a prompt mapclass 12
  • Talk to a base modelclass 12
  • Run the synthetic-persona battleclass 15
  • Prompt in your stretch rather than your defaultclass 16
  • Map the multi-order effectsclass 17
  • The 2 AM confessionclass 20
  • Future headlinesclass 21

reject the first draft

  • Set up a debate partnerclass 4
  • Build cheap and then swap the model upclass 8
  • Critique modeclass 10
  • Find where the workflow breaksclass 11
  • Change the prompt's languageclass 12
  • Boss of a junior analystclass 13
  • Ask for what's missingclass 13
  • Run three challenge loopsclass 16
  • Ask for one good version rather than tenclass 18
  • Add the detail that makes it goodclass 19

build tools not chats

  • Stand up a reusable Project or Gemclass 4
  • Weight your references on purposeclass 5
  • Let one model write the prompt for anotherclass 6
  • Let the agent build the bonesclass 8
  • Build a System Nucleusclass 11
  • Let AI name your filesclass 11
  • Stage-gate your own GPTclass 20

generate multiples

  • The 2x2 grid trickclass 8
  • Refine with constraintsclass 9

go deep not wide

  • Name your two or three toolsclass 1

manage AI tone

  • Set a memory or tone ruleclass 1

designers must lead

  • Audit for the cultural blind spotclass 1

build a legacy, not a chat log

  • Draft your own agent CV entryclass 1

know where it fails

  • Ground the answer in your own sourcesclass 7

give it a job

  • Direct the lyrics with brackets and parenthesesclass 9
Built from the CreativeAI curriculum, Summer 2026.