Research AI prompts
Curated research prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor. Copy, adapt, and run in your workflow.
30 prompts
Survey Cognitive Pretest
Turn a draft survey into a 5-person think-aloud protocol: what to listen for, likely misreads, time estimate, and rewritten items before you field. Use after Survey Question Auditor, before the Fielding Kit.
Survey Fielding Kit
Launch package for a survey: who to send to, quotas and implied send volume, invitation, 3-day and 7-day reminders, thank-you, and channel variants. Not a generic email prompt.
Survey Data Quality & Open-End Coder
Before analysis: exclusion rules for speeders, straightliners, and junk; then a codebook for open-ends with example recodes. Hand off a clean file to Survey Analysis Framework. Does not invent statistics.
Session Debrief From Transcript
Turn one interview or usability transcript into structured notes: task outcomes, timestamped quotes, surprises, and follow-ups. Not a full-study synthesis. Run after each session; affinity mapping comes later.
Concept Test Protocol
Protocol for showing a concept or prototype to learn whether the idea is understandable and desirable, not whether a flow is usable. Stimulus order, reaction probes, and build / do-not-build signals.
Diary Study Setup
Longitudinal protocol: research questions suited to diaries, cadence, daily prompts, dropout plan, and a debrief guide. Use when one interview cannot see behavior over time.
Participant Consent & Session Comms
Plain-language consent and logistics: recording, data use, how to stop, incentive, and calendar copy. Variants for interviews, usability tests, surveys, and diaries.
Mixed-Source Research Synthesis
Combine already-coded interviews, surveys, and analytics into one report. For a single session use Session Debrief From Transcript. To cluster interview notes, use Affinity Mapping Assistant, then Research Insight Statement Writer.
User Research Recruitment Plan
Create participant criteria and recruitment materials for user research studies.
User Persona Creation
Stakeholder-facing personas from research you already have. Do not invent demographics. Prefer Behavioral Persona From Research after affinity or insight statements; use this only when the room still wants a named persona card.
Interview Batch Report
First-pass report across several interview notes. For one session use Session Debrief From Transcript. For a full study use Affinity Mapping Assistant, then Research Insight Statement Writer. Same outline as Mixed-Source Research Synthesis, interview-only.
Survey Question Generator
Design effective, unbiased survey questions that yield actionable insights.
UX Research Plan Generator
Scaffold a full research plan from a vague stakeholder ask: objectives, methods, participants, phased timeline, deliverables, assumptions to validate, and risks. For usability-only scope, pair with the Usability Test Plan prompt.
Research Question Sharpener
Turn a vague or bloated stakeholder question into scorable, method-mapped research questions with prioritization and out-of-scope flags. Use before writing a discussion guide or survey.
Participant Screener Survey Builder
Draft a recruitment screener with intro copy, behavioral and qualifying items, explicit disqualifiers, routing notes, and recruiter guidance. Goes deeper than a high-level recruitment plan.
Moderated Discussion Guide Generator
Session-ready moderator guide for usability tests, generative interviews, concept tests, or diary debriefs: timed sections, scripts, tasks with probes, concept reactions, and moderator reminders. Broader than a usability-only script; use Usability Test Script for a task-heavy usability template.
Survey Question Auditor
Quality-check a draft survey before launch: leading language, double-barreled items, scale mismatches, bias, order effects, and more. Pairs with Survey Question Generator for write-then-audit workflows.
Affinity Mapping Assistant
Synthesize raw qual data (interviews, usability, diaries) using an affinity-style flow: clean, code, cluster into themes with evidence counts, outliers, severity-weighted ranking, and surprises.
Research Insight Statement Writer
Turn themes and observations into decision-ready insight statements (Observation, Pattern, Implication, Recommendation) plus a short exec "So What" summary. Use after synthesis or affinity output.
Research Readout Builder
Build a research readout deck structure: TL;DR, overview, one slide per finding with evidence and recommendations, prioritized actions, unknowns, appendix, plus speaker notes. More research-specific than generic shareouts.
Behavioral Persona From Research
Build 2-4 behaviorally distinct personas from qual synthesis: archetype, grounded quote, mental model, needs vs wants, day-in-life, design implications - without inventing demographics. Complements the broader User Persona Creation prompt.
Research Request Prioritization
Score and rank incoming research requests against capacity using business impact, urgency, knowledge gap, feasibility, and customer impact (weighted), plus roadmap order and a template to communicate deprioritization.
A/B Test Design Template
Design rigorous A/B tests with clear hypotheses, metrics, and success criteria.
Beta Program Feedback Survey
Filled-in survey starter for a beta cohort (satisfaction, launch-readiness, must-fix). If this is not a beta, use Survey Question Generator, then Survey Question Auditor.
A/B Test Sample Size Guide
Calculate required sample size and test duration for statistically valid experiments.
A/B Test Decision Framework
Make rigorous ship/no-ship decisions based on experiment results.
Usability Test Script & Moderator Guide
Create detailed test scripts and moderator guides for running usability test sessions with specific tasks, questions, and facilitation tips.
Survey Analysis Framework
Analyze survey data to extract design insights, identify patterns, and generate actionable recommendations.
Usability Test Plan
Create a comprehensive usability test plan with scenarios, tasks, and success metrics.
User Interview Guide
Simple generative interview outline: objectives, question sets, probes. Need a timed session with tasks or a concept? Use Moderated Discussion Guide Generator, Usability Test Script, or Concept Test Protocol instead.