reference guide

The Design Studio — in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini

Doing the exercise in a chat tool

The Design Studio is — as its lesson reveals at the end — one system prompt and one growing conversation. So a chat tool can be the studio: paste the analyst prompt below as your first message, add your agent brief and tool set, and every follow-up question continues the same conversation, exactly like the studio's follow-up box.

Set up your tool first

  1. 1
    Use a fresh conversation (temporary chat is fine) — one per design session.
  2. 2
    Paste the analyst prompt below, with your brief and tool set filled in at the bottom, as ONE message.
  3. 3
    Ask follow-ups in the same conversation.
    Each reply is a fresh analysis appended to the same growing context — that IS the studio loop.
  4. 4
    Copy your captures into your course document as you go.

The analyst prompt — fill in the bottom, paste as one message

Steps 1–3 and all captures are identical to the main exercise. You are literally running the studio's own system prompt — which is the lesson's closing point, experienced firsthand.

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