critique prompts
43 prompts tagged critique, drawn from 10 categories. All free to copy, and all editable once they are in your own library.
🔮 Astrology & tarot💼 CV & career🍳 Cooking & food🎨 Design & UX🧠 Learning & explaining🪶 Poetry & wordplay🗺️ Product & planning🔬 Research & comparison⚖️ Thinking & decisions✍️ Writing & editing
- Explain astrology to a sceptic, fairlyA friend thinks it's nonsense and you want an honest account rather than a defence.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Sort a reading into psychological or predictiveWorking out which kind of astrology you are actually practising.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Critique a reading I have writtenBefore you send a written reading to someone who is going to take it seriously.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Is this reading too vague?Before you send a written reading to someone who will take it seriously.Short🔮 Astrology & tarot
- What would a sceptic say?Testing a reading against the strongest objection to it.Short🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Check this reading before I send itA last pass for vagueness and overreach before someone else reads it.Medium🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Sixty-second read on my CVBefore you send it, to hear what a skimming reader actually takes away.Medium💼 CV & career
- Read a recipe critically before I startBefore you commit two hours and a chicken to a recipe from a stranger.Long🍳 Cooking & food
- What is this recipe not telling me?Before you commit two hours and a chicken to a recipe from a stranger.Medium🍳 Cooking & food
- Critique this onboarding flowSign-ups are healthy and activation is not.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Critique this screen like a design leadBefore design review, when you want the criticism early and privately.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Fix the visual hierarchy on this layoutEverything on the screen is shouting and nothing reads first.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Compare two design options and pick oneTwo mockups, a stalled debate, and a decision due today.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Run a heuristic evaluation on this interfaceYou need structured findings fast and there is no time for user testing.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Is this clear without context?A screen that makes sense to you because you have been staring at it for a week.Short🎨 Design & UX
- What is confusing here?When something about a screen feels off and you cannot name it.Short🎨 Design & UX
- Are these too many options?A menu or settings panel that has grown one item at a time.Short🎨 Design & UX
- What would a first-timer miss?Before shipping something to people who have never seen it before.Short🎨 Design & UX
- Critique this screen in five linesA fast private critique before the design review, with no room for padding.Medium🎨 Design & UX
- Is this a real problem or just my taste?Before sending design feedback that might be preference dressed as principle.Medium🎨 Design & UX
- Summarise this paper and tell me if it holds upA research paper or long article you need the substance of, plus a sanity check.Long🧠 Learning & explaining
- What would I have to believe for this to be true?Evaluating a claim, a strategy, or an argument you can't immediately fault.Long🧠 Learning & explaining
- Diagnose the line that isn't landingOne line is dead and you know which one but not why.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Critique this poem with no praise at allWhen you want an honest read and not a compliment sandwich.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Find the clichés I've stopped noticingA read-through for stale images before you send a poem anywhere.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Tell me what this poem is actually aboutWhen the draft is circling something you haven't admitted yet.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Check which ambiguities are workingWhen you're not sure whether a line is rich or just unclear.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Stop the poem tying itself into a bowThe last two lines explain the poem instead of ending it.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Is this image a cliche?Checking one image before you build a whole poem on it.Short🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- What is this poem actually about?The draft is circling something you have not admitted yet.Short🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Six rewrites of the line that is not landingOne line is dead, you know which one, and you want options rather than a verdict.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Fast critique, no praiseYou want an honest read and not a compliment sandwich.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Does this ending earn itself?The last few lines might be explaining the poem instead of ending it.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Why would nobody come back?Before building something you assume people will love.Short🗺️ Product & planning
- Strongest objection to thisBefore you commit to a conclusion you already like.Short🔬 Research & comparison
- What would change this conclusion?Deciding how firmly to hold a view you have formed.Short🔬 Research & comparison
- Which claim here is weakest?Checking an argument before you repeat it to someone else.Short🔬 Research & comparison
- Who disagrees with this?Finding the other side before someone else finds it for you.Short🔬 Research & comparison
- Stress-test my conclusionBefore you put a conclusion in front of other people.Medium🔬 Research & comparison
- Argue the other sideWhen you have already decided and want the decision tested.Short⚖️ Thinking & decisions
- Critique my draft like an editor who has to publish itWhen you have read your own piece so many times you cannot see it.Long✍️ Writing & editing
- Flag every claim I have not supportedBefore publishing anything persuasive, or anything with numbers in it.Long✍️ Writing & editing
- What is the actual point?A paragraph you wrote that you suspect is saying nothing.Short✍️ Writing & editing
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