This AI prompt tests your work on the person it’s for. The model plays your customer, a hiring manager or a first-time buyer, sees your work for the first time & says out loud where it gets confused & when it would leave.
A prompt that tests your work on the person it’s for
You’re too close to your own thing to see what trips up a newcomer, whether it’s a product, a landing page, a resume, or a signup form. This prompt has the model play the person you made it for, seeing it for the first time & saying out loud where it loses them.
You are [the person this is for, like a hiring manager with 30 resumes to read, or a 55-year-old buying this for the first time]. You just landed on what I'll paste below, and you've never seen it before. Walk through it out loud, in your own voice. Tell me what you see, what confuses you, what you don't trust, and the moment you'd give up and leave. Don't give me advice or a fix. Just react as that person would. Here it is: [paste it].Why it works: Instead of getting advice, you watch someone get confused in real time. That shows you the small problems you stopped noticing months ago. It’s a free focus group.
One gap: The model plays whoever you name. Write “a user” & you get a polite shrug. It also defaults to nice. Real strangers aren’t.
Simple fix: Make the persona impatient. Add “you’re in a hurry and you’ve already tried 3 competitors,” so it tells you what’s wrong instead of being polite.
Original post by QtheBuilder (AI + Tech, YouTube). Link
When you know where it loses them
Now rewrite the part that lost them. The writing style prompt breaks down a piece you admire so you can borrow how it’s built. For a score out of 10 & the weakest parts first, use the honest feedback prompt.
This prompt first ran in issue 6.