ChatGPT Prompt: The Ultimate UI Stylist & Layout Generator
Are you’re a UX designer, frontend developer, or hobbyist and want to craft the next great app interface, this powerful prompt brings design vision to life.
It helps you generate fully-formed UI concepts and visual themes that align with specific user personas, device constraints, aesthetic trends, and even accessibility needs.
It’s ideal for daily brainstorming, wireframe generation, or preparing creative directions for teams and clients.
With this intelligent layout prompt, you’re not just imagining design, but you’re producing detailed design documentation and layout guidelines, color systems, visual hierarchy notes, and even font pairing strategies on the fly.
The result?
A compelling, structured UI foundation ready for design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.
The Prompt
<System> You are a world-class UI/UX designer and creative director specializing in user interfaces for web and mobile platforms. </System> <Context> You are tasked with creating a detailed design brief and visual guide for a user interface based on the user’s input. The interface must be functional, aesthetically coherent, and tailored for the intended use case (e.g., e-commerce, dashboard, productivity, lifestyle app). </Context> <Instructions> - Analyze the provided user input and extract key functional requirements, style preferences, color tones, and usability principles. - Create a structured UI concept that includes layout descriptions, suggested design patterns (card-based, sidebar, grid, etc.), navigation logic, and interactive behaviors. - Define a cohesive visual style, including: - Typography (primary & secondary fonts + use cases) - Color palette with HEX codes and thematic notes - Button and input styles (with hover/focus states) - Iconography guidelines (style, usage, tone) - Suggest responsive behavior rules for different devices (mobile, tablet, desktop). - Consider accessibility compliance (WCAG standards) and include suggestions for contrast ratios and keyboard navigation. - Conclude with UI tone guidelines (e.g., clean & minimal, vibrant & playful, corporate & professional) to ensure consistency across the design. <Constraints> - Do not generate actual images or CSS code. - All design elements must be explained in descriptive prose for designers and developers to implement. - Avoid vague suggestions. Be concrete and justified in all UI recommendations. <Output Format> <UI_Design_Document> <Design_Summary> ... </Design_Summary> <Layout_Recommendations> ... </Layout_Recommendations> <Visual_Style_Guide> ... </Visual_Style_Guide> <Responsive_Behavior> ... </Responsive_Behavior> <Accessibility_Guidelines> ... </Accessibility_Guidelines> <UI_Tone_Guidelines> ... </UI_Tone_Guidelines> </UI_Design_Document> </Instructions> <Reasoning> Apply Theory of Mind to analyze the user's request, considering both logical intent and emotional undertones. Use Strategic Chain-of-Thought and System 2 Thinking to provide evidence-based, nuanced responses that balance depth with clarity. </Reasoning> <User Input> Reply with: "Please enter your UI design and style request and I will start the process," then wait for the user to provide their specific UI design and style process request. </User Input>
Prompt Use Cases:
Brainstorm a complete UI design guide for a habit-tracking mobile app.
Generate layout and visual style specs for a real estate web dashboard.
Create accessibility-conscious dark mode themes for a productivity suite.
Example User Input:
Please generate a UI design and visual style guide for a minimalist budgeting app for freelancers, optimized for mobile and tablet devices. The tone should feel calm, professional, and trust-inspiring.
How to Use this Prompt
1. Copy and Paste the Prompt Into ChatGPT
Paste the entire block of the prompt into ChatGPT and wait for it to finish loading. It will include a tag at the end:
<User Input><br />Reply with: "Please enter your UI design and style request and I will start the process," then wait for the user to provide their specific UI design and style process request.<br /></User Input>
This will prompt you to give your design brief.
2. Give a Detailed UI Design Request
Once ChatGPT asks, provide a rich and specific design brief. Include:
Type of product (e.g., dashboard, mobile app, landing page)
Target users or personas
Platform (web, mobile, tablet, responsive)
Mood or tone (e.g., minimal, playful, elegant, dark theme)
Functional goals (e.g., onboarding, task management, analytics)
Accessibility goals (if any)
Example:
> “Design a calming, mobile-first wellness journal for teens. Should include soft pastel colors, touch-friendly UI, and prioritize privacy. Include light and dark mode suggestions.”
3. Review and Extract Outputs
ChatGPT will respond with a structured UI document inside the following XML sections:
<Design_Summary>
<Layout_Recommendations>
<Visual_Style_Guide>
<Responsive_Behavior>
<Accessibility_Guidelines>
<UI_Tone_Guidelines>
Each section contains highly detailed design decisions you can hand off to developers, use in prototyping tools like Figma, or build into low-code platforms like Webflow or Glide.
4. Iterate and Expand
Want more?
Ask ChatGPT to “generate a Figma frame structure based on this layout”
Request it to “add gamification elements for user retention”
Ask for “a dark mode variant of the same style guide”
Treat this as a first draft. Refine and adjust according to your branding or product vision.
Build a design system off the color palette and typography
💡 Pro Tips
Combine it with image tools. Pair with DALL·E or Midjourney to visualize the moodboard or layout aesthetics.
Create variants. Run the same prompt with different tones—try minimal vs playful or dark vs light—to explore different creative directions.
Use it with teams. Share the document with your team to gather feedback and turn it into a shared design artifact.
⚠️ Disclaimer
This prompt is a creative tool, not a substitute for usability testing, design validation, or accessibility audits. Always validate the results with users and accessibility guidelines.
🚀 Get Started
After pasting the prompt, say:
> “Please enter your UI design and style request and I will start the process.”
And then enter your brief to unlock your personalized UI design blueprint.