Prompt Engineering for Designers
Prompt engineering is not for programmers. It is for anyone who needs to communicate a vision to a machine. And nobody is better prepared for this than designers.
I have been designing for banks for over 10 years. Now I build everything from scratch with Claude, Midjourney, and PHP. This is not theory. It is what I do every day.
Prompt engineering is not for programmers. It is for anyone who needs to communicate a vision to a machine. And nobody is better prepared for this than designers.
This blog would not exist without AI. Not because a machine designed it for me, but because AI eliminated every excuse I had for not starting. This is the technical and creative story of shinobis.com.
AI is changing every layer of the UX process, from research to testing. But the core of the discipline remains intact. What changes is how we execute, not why we design.
Not all styles work the same way in Midjourney. After hundreds of generations, I identified the styles that produce the most consistent and professional results. This guide documents each one with real prompts.
I set myself a challenge: for 30 days, every design deliverable I produced had to involve AI in a meaningful way. Not as an accessory. As the primary tool. Here is what I learned.
Every week I read the same headline: AI is going to replace designers. I have been in this industry for over ten years and I have seen threats come and go. But this time what truly scares me is not the machine. It is the number of designers refusing to learn something new.
The llms.txt file is the equivalent of robots.txt for artificial intelligence. Here is how I built mine and validated it.
AI product photography is not about typing 'nice photo of a shoe' and waiting for magic. After months generating images for real projects, I found a layered method that produces results clients cannot distinguish from an actual photo shoot.
I designed interfaces for international financial institutions for over a decade. Systems handling millions of dollars, screens seen by thousands daily. Now that AI generates interfaces in seconds, there is something I learned in those years that no machine can replace.
I have been designing interfaces for over 10 years. When AI image generators exploded, I heard the same phrase everywhere: designers are done. But what I learned after months integrating AI into real projects tells a very different story.