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Decide what to put in the design system and what to leave alone

Design Systems Advanced 🤖 ChatGPT 👁 3 views

📝 The Prompt

Our team is building (or rebuilding) a design system. The instinct is to systemize everything. The reality is that some things shouldn't be systemized — over-systemizing kills the design's ability to adapt. Help me build the inclusion criteria. Specifically: 1. List the categories of UI element that almost always belong in a design system (buttons, form fields, etc.) — keep it short. 2. List the categories that almost never belong (page layouts, hero compositions, marketing-specific moments). 3. List the ambiguous middle — things teams fight over (cards, modals, empty states) — and give me a rule for deciding case-by-case. 4. For each ambiguous item, name the question that resolves it ('does this appear in 3+ contexts with the same semantics?'). 5. Tell me the one mistake teams make in year 2 of a design system that we should avoid in year 1. Our context: [paste 3 sentences about team, product, current state].

⚙️ Replace 1 placeholder: [paste 3 sentences about team, product, current state]

🎯 What this prompt does

This AI prompt helps you decide what to put in the design system and what to leave alone. Designed for systems workflows in the design category, it's a advanced-level prompt you can copy directly into ChatGPT to get instant, production-ready results.

Use it when you need a advanced prompt that produces clear, actionable output without wrestling with trial-and-error wording. Just copy, customize, and run.

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🚀 How to use this prompt

  1. Copy the prompt using the 📋 button above.
  2. Open ChatGPT (or Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, or your preferred LLM).
  3. Paste the prompt into a new chat. Replace 1 bracketed placeholder ([paste 3 sentences about team, product, current state] ) with your own details.
  4. Run the prompt and review the AI's response. Most outputs are usable immediately.
  5. Iterate if needed — if the tone, length, or structure isn't quite right, reply with "make it shorter", "use bullet points", or "make it more formal" and the AI will refine it.

💡 Tips for better results

  • Replace the bracketed placeholders ([paste 3 sentences about team, product, current state]) with your own specifics before sending.
  • If the first output isn't quite right, ask the AI to refine, rewrite, or add more detail — iteration is key.
  • For long outputs, ask for a section at a time (e.g. 'start with the introduction only') to keep quality high.
  • Combine this with other design prompts to build an end-to-end workflow.
  • Save your favorite variations — small wording tweaks often produce noticeably different results.
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✨ What you'll get

When you run this prompt, expect ChatGPT to return:

  • A directly usable systems output tailored to the details you provided
  • Clear structure (headings, bullets, or numbered sections) that you can drop into your workflow
  • Content that matches your specified tone and context
  • Results in under 30 seconds — no manual drafting required

Need a different angle? Just ask follow-up questions. The AI will adjust without you starting over.

🔄 3 variations to try

1

Make it more formal

Add "Use a formal, professional tone suitable for enterprise clients" at the start of the prompt.

2

Ask for multiple options

Append "Give me 5 alternative versions, each with a different angle or approach." after the main instruction.

3

Request structured output

Add "Return the response as a markdown table (or bullet list, or JSON)" so you can paste the result directly into your docs or code.

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