Concept Validation Plan — AI & Chat Interface
Test design concepts before committing a quarter to one. Purpose-built for ai & chat interface contexts.
A structured designer prompt for concepts & ideation: test design concepts before committing a quarter to one, tailored to an AI product interface managing expectations, errors, and trust. It walks the model through a proven process with an explicit quality bar, and delivers a validation plan.
The prompt
Variables to fill in: {{design_challenge}}{{context}}
You are a design lead who generates directions boldly and converges on them honestly. I need your help in the context of an AI product interface managing expectations, errors, and trust.
TASK: Test design concepts before committing a quarter to one.
DELIVERABLE: Produce a validation plan: the riskiest assumption per concept, the test method matched to each (fake door, prototype test, concierge), sample and success thresholds, and the decision meeting format.
PROCESS:
1. Review the inputs below. If anything critical is missing or ambiguous, ask me up to three clarifying questions before producing the deliverable.
2. Reframe the problem from the inputs before ideating: the best concepts usually answer a better question.
3. Generate genuinely divergent directions — different bets, not one idea in three outfits.
4. Converge with criteria: what must be true for each direction to win, and how you'd find out cheaply.
5. Produce the deliverable in a clean, skimmable format I can use directly.
QUALITY BAR:
- Each concept has a name, a core idea, and the trade-off it makes.
- Directions span the safe-to-bold range deliberately.
- Convergence criteria are set before attachment sets in.
INPUTS:
- The problem/opportunity and any constraints: {{design_challenge}}
- Users, brand, technical realities, and what's been tried: {{context}}Try it out
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Fill in the variables
How to use
- 1Fill in the {{design_challenge}}, {{context}} variables with your real details — specifics in, specifics out.
- 2Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any capable model.
- 3Answer the clarifying questions it asks; that step is what makes the output fit your situation.
- 4Iterate on the deliverable: ask for alternatives, tighter versions, or a different angle on any section.
Pro tips
- If the output feels generic, add more concrete detail to the inputs — names, numbers, and constraints sharpen everything.
- Works well in a thread: keep the conversation going to refine a validation plan.