Prompting Isn’t Just a Skill... It’s UX Design in a New Language
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- Oct 2, 2025
- 2 min read
Prompting isn't a separate skill - it's design in a new language. - Zander Whitehurst, Educator and Founder of Memorisely
In enterprise UX, prompting isn’t about crafting clever one-liners for AI. It’s about design fluency in a new medium. Just as visual designers mastered layout, typography, and hierarchy, UX designers today must learn how to shape AI outputs through the prompts they craft.
Why Prompting Is UX
Prompts aren’t instructions... they’re interfaces. They frame intent, set constraints, and guide outputs in ways that feel eerily similar to design principles we already know:
Hierarchy: What you emphasize first shapes the AI’s attention.
Clarity: Ambiguity creates messy outputs, just like unclear wireframes create messy builds.
Iteration: Rarely does the first prompt (or design) hit the mark... it takes refinement.
Enterprise UX and the New Language of Design
For large organizations, this shift is more than individual productivity hacks. It’s a cultural adaptation:
Teams will need shared prompt libraries the same way they share design system tokens.
Governance and compliance will extend to prompt testing, ensuring ethical, inclusive outputs.
Designers fluent in prompting will bridge the gap between human goals and AI execution.
The Future of UX in the Age of AI
Prompting is not a niche add-on skill. It’s the new design dialect... the way we converse with systems that now co-create with us. Just as HTML and CSS once gave designers a direct handle on interfaces, prompts are today’s bridge to AI-powered workflows.
When I work with AI, I sort of feel like I am in Star Trek when the characters converse with the ships computer to iterate on the problem or emergency at hand.
Takeaway
Treat prompting as design, not novelty. It’s the key to scaling UX practices in an era where AI is embedded in enterprise tools, research, and workflows.
Disclaimer: The thoughts shared in this blog are solely my own and do not represent the perspectives of my professional relationships or clientele.
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