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.
When you need design critique and review done, these graphic designer prompts give you a fill-in-the-blanks starting point covering critique, accessibility, review. Fill in fields like design, its job, audience and paste the result 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.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the blanks. Type your details into each highlighted field of this design critique and review prompt — fields like design, its job, audience — and it rewrites itself live.
Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt to put the finished design critique and review prompt on your clipboard.
Paste into your AI model. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chat LLM to get your design critique and review result.
Review and iterate. Read the response as a graphic designer would, then adjust fields like design, its job, audience and re-run to sharpen it.
Fill-in fields explained
design
layout, hierarchy, type choices and sizes, color values, imagery, spacing, medium and viewing context
its job
what the viewer should understand and do
audience
who, where, how long they look
constraints
Your constraints.
digital or print
Your digital or print.
details
colors with hex values, type sizes and weights, layout, interactive elements, imagery, any motion
context
where it appears and who uses it
target standard
e.g. WCAG 2.2 AA
number
Your number.
describe
Your describe.
more options
if needed
objective
Your objective.
disagreement
who prefers what and why
competitor visual language
Your competitor visual language.
Frequently asked
Which AI models does the Design Critique and Review prompt work with?
The Design Critique and Review prompts for Graphic Designer are plain-text and model-agnostic — paste them into ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any other chat model.
How do I customize the Design Critique and Review prompt for my own use?
Fill in the 14 labelled fields (design, its job, audience, …) before copying, or edit the [bracketed] text after you paste.
Are the Design Critique and Review prompts for Graphic Designer free to use?
Yes. Every Design Critique and Review prompt here is free to copy and reuse, including for commercial and client work, with no sign-up.