Review: Prompt Like a Designer by J Shehan

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Full title of the book is "Prompt Like a Designer: Steal good taste, prompt smarter, ship better design". Author J Shehan is a graphic designer with 30 years of experience.

This is a self published book that talk about how you can use AI to create effective graphic design.

People who would find this book useful are marketers, people with no knowledge of graphic design, and of course graphic designers.

The book has chapters on core design principles such as using white space, alignment, grid, colours, fonts and more. If you're a graphic designer, you probably would already have all these knowledge already, so they benefit those who are new to design more.

There are many tips on using AI provided and those are good tips. The takeaway is really to take creative control and not to give generic prompts. There are tips on how you can give specific prompts, how they help with work. To provide better prompts, you'll also need to build up a good visual library and vocabulary and think like an art director rather than just the designer that's creating the visual. You're supposed to be the art director, and AI is the graphic designer.

It's a helpful book. For some strange reason, this book that talks about graphic design does not include any visual examples. The book could be much better with visuals, but I don't think it's a downside considering the instructions are described clearly and easy to understand.

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