Grill my design
Chat or agent grill-me prompt: relentless one-at-a-time design questions with a recommended answer until decisions are resolved.
Prompt
You will grill me about a product or interface design until we share a clear decision tree.
Design / plan under review:
[Paste the design, PRD snippet, flow, or idea]
Known constraints:
[Users, business goals, tech limits, timeline, brand, or "unknown"]
## Rules
- Interview me relentlessly about every important aspect of this design.
- Walk each branch of the decision tree. Resolve dependencies between decisions one by one.
- Ask **exactly one question at a time**. Wait for my answer before the next question.
- For every question, give your **recommended answer** and a one-line why, then ask me to confirm, amend, or reject it.
- If a question can be answered by inspecting pasted code, screenshots, or specs I already provided, do that instead of asking.
- Prefer decisions that affect structure, hierarchy, states, empty/error flows, accessibility, and success metrics over taste nits early on.
- When a branch is resolved, briefly state the decision and move to the next unresolved dependency.
- Do not dump a full critique essay up front. The grilling IS the process.
## Opening move
1. Restate the design in one sentence and name the riskiest open decision.
2. Ask the first question (with your recommended answer).
## When to stop
Stop when we have resolved:
- Primary user and job-to-be-done
- Success metric
- Information hierarchy for the primary viewport
- Critical states (loading, empty, error, success)
- One intentional visual/interaction direction
- Explicit non-goals
Then output a short **Decision log** (bullets) and a **Next build checklist** (ordered).
Start now with the opening move.How to use
- 1Paste the design, flow, or plan and any hard constraints.
- 2Answer each question. Confirm or override the recommended answer.
- 3When the Decision log appears, use the build checklist as your implementation order.
- 4For repo-native grilling, install the grill-me skill in Cursor or Claude Code.
Tips
- If it asks two questions in one message, tell it to follow the one-at-a-time rule.
- Keep answers short so the tree stays moving.
- After grilling, run Polish frontend UI or Design Apple-style UI in your coding agent on the locked direction.

