Prompt Fixes
You typed "Design a login screen" and Claude gave you a generic, outdated 1990s layout.
What is adding specific constraints? (or providing a design system)
You want Claude to critique your Figma mockup, but it obviously can't open your Figma link.
What is taking a screenshot and uploading it as an image?
You have a 45-minute user interview recording you need summarized.
What is generating a transcript first and uploading the text file?
You accidentally pasted your company's secret Q3 financial spreadsheet into the chat.
What is deleting the chat? (and reviewing company data policies)
What is Gal's last name
Gordon
Claude’s PRD is brilliant, but it is way too long and wordy for your engineers to read.
What is specifying output format/length? (e.g., "Use bullet points, max 2 pages")
Claude wrote UI code, but you want to see what it looks like without opening your coding tools.
What is using Artifacts? (or the Preview pane)
Claude wrote the PRD, but it sounds like a corporate robot wrote it.
What is providing a previous PRD you wrote to mimic your tone?
Claude wrote a Python script, but it immediately throws an error when you run it.
What is pasting the exact error message back into Claude?
Finish the lyrics. Baby shark ...
doo doo doo doo doo doo
Claude keeps forgetting the "Gen-Z" user persona halfway through writing the task.
What is placing the most important instructions at the end of the prompt?
You tell Claude to "make it pop," and it makes the background neon yellow.
What is using precise design terminology? (e.g., "increase contrast ratio")
Claude confidently states your biggest competitor launched a new feature yesterday.
What is verifying the claim? (Because AI hallucinates current events)
Claude ignores your instruction to "Not use bla bla bla."
What is telling it exactly what to use instead? (Positive framing)
In the last year who sent the most messages in #product-team
Zac Hays with 49 (blame slackbot if wrong)
Claude wrote a great user story, but totally missed the edge cases.
What is explicitly prompting it to "think through edge cases first"?
Claude generated a component, but the spacing and colors don't match your brand.
What is uploading your Design System guidelines (or token file) first?
You need Claude to write 50 Jira tickets from a giant epic, but it stops generating halfway through.
What is asking it to output the tickets in phases of 10?
You ask Claude a complex logic question and it immediately spits out a wrong answer.
What is asking Claude to "think step-by-step" before answering?
What is the name of the first employee was that is not c-suite and is still at LP?
Andrew Wilke or Edward Yeh
You need Claude to format data exactly like your team's weird internal Jira structure.
What is few-shot prompting? (Providing 2-3 concrete examples)
You need a custom SVG icon, but Claude keeps giving you generic text descriptions.
What is asking Claude to output raw SVG code within an Artifact?
You feed Claude 10 different customer feedback PDFs and it gets the details mixed up.
What is using <document> XML tags to separate the files?
The output is complete garbage because you dumped 5 complex tasks into one prompt.
What is breaking the prompt into sequential steps? (Prompt Chaining)
how many bathroom stalls are there in the austin office
14. 7 and 7