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Every method from the course, one page

Pratt AI Design Certificate, Summer 2026. 105 methods grouped by the idea they belong to. Each lives on its class page with a working prompt.

keep the judgment human

Judge AI output with your own trained eyeclass 1
The sea-of-sameness checkclass 2
Pick the relationship on purposeclass 2
Make it fact-check itself before you read itclass 3
Choose approving or supervising on purposeclass 3
Judge your own custom instructionsclass 4
Diagnose your own hallucination firstclass 5
Diagnose the edit yourself firstclass 6
Map the workflow yourself firstclass 7
Decide if you need nodes at allclass 8
Argue with the first draftclass 9
Interpreter stress testclass 10
Place the review checkpointclass 11
Trace the bias to its layerclass 12
Check for the WEIRD defaultclass 12
The three judge promptsclass 14
The break-character testclass 15
Read the Configure tab before you trust itclass 15
Predict your Think Print before you take itclass 16
Predict the balancing loop before you askclass 17
Mark what the AI missedclass 17
Judge your own work firstclass 18
Build your constitution from real behaviorclass 18
Route the constrained parts to the machineclass 19
Spar with your rebel strategistclass 20
Villain modeclass 21
The story KPI testclass 21

structure your ask

Give it two keyframes instead of one descriptionclass 2
Speak the language of the internetclass 3
Write it as a GOLD blockclass 4
Write it as Format, then Subject, Details, Style and Parametersclass 5
Write it as Format, then Subject, Details, Motion, Style and Parametersclass 6
Structure the audio prompt separatelyclass 6
Tag each task Automate, Enhance or Adviseclass 7
Write your own GOLD promptclass 9
Boil the style down to 5 tagsclass 9
Interviewer modeclass 10
Give it an executive's jobclass 13
Say what you want rather than what you do notclass 13
Build the campaign systemclass 14
Build a persona with R.O.C.Kclass 15
Add a decision-logic layerclass 15
Prime before you generate anythingclass 16
State the real goal rather than the flattering oneclass 17
Place it on the innovation ladderclass 17
Pre-flight the prompt for IP riskclass 18
Write the persona nobody seesclass 19
Describe it like the reader can't see itclass 19
X-ray the briefclass 20
Logline ad libsclass 21

context beats prompts

Control the input and build graduallyclass 2
Show it your voice and not just the outputclass 3
Evolve the reference instead of restartingclass 5
Study your own image and then extend itclass 5
Build the turnaround sheet before you animate anythingclass 6
Prime a workspace instead of starting blankclass 7
Save a reusable prompt-enhancer presetclass 8
Build your writing-style guideclass 10
Store context onceclass 11
Build the tool rather than the chatclass 13
Feed it the thinking firstclass 14
Sketch before you promptclass 16
Run a provenance checkclass 18
Loop a GPT into a Projectclass 19
Make it study your archiveclass 20
Mine the data storyclass 21

go wide then narrow

The lateral reframeclass 2
Start a fresh chat instead of one long threadclass 3
Force the creative partner deeperclass 4
Run one question through a model councilclass 7
Forced Connectionsclass 10
Build a prompt mapclass 12
Talk to a base modelclass 12
Run the synthetic-persona battleclass 15
Prompt in your stretch rather than your defaultclass 16
Map the multi-order effectsclass 17
The 2 AM confessionclass 20
Future headlinesclass 21

reject the first draft

Set up a debate partnerclass 4
Build cheap and then swap the model upclass 8
Critique modeclass 10
Find where the workflow breaksclass 11
Change the prompt's languageclass 12
Boss of a junior analystclass 13
Ask for what's missingclass 13
Run three challenge loopsclass 16
Ask for one good version rather than tenclass 18
Add the detail that makes it goodclass 19

build tools not chats

Stand up a reusable Project or Gemclass 4
Weight your references on purposeclass 5
Let one model write the prompt for anotherclass 6
Let the agent build the bonesclass 8
Build a System Nucleusclass 11
Let AI name your filesclass 11
Stage-gate your own GPTclass 20

generate multiples

The 2x2 grid trickclass 8
Refine with constraintsclass 9

go deep not wide

Name your two or three toolsclass 1

manage AI tone

Set a memory or tone ruleclass 1

designers must lead

Audit for the cultural blind spotclass 1

build a legacy, not a chat log

Draft your own agent CV entryclass 1

know where it fails

Ground the answer in your own sourcesclass 7

give it a job

Direct the lyrics with brackets and parenthesesclass 9

Built from the CreativeAI curriculum, Summer 2026.