There’s a common issue for many product designers; we need to work more closely with UX writers or UX content strategists.

While it’s true that some companies involve UX writers within the product team, it’s not a common practice. Product designers often need to create the UX copy for the interface themselves.

It’s fine when discussing microcopies like text for a button or other small UI elements like a label. However, the UX writing process becomes trickier when we need to produce longer written content, for example, for an error message.

We often need more time to craft an effective error message, but we do not have the time, so we insert a temporal text during the design process and modify them at the end.

The issue is that designers, even good UX designers, sometimes deliver poor error messages, leading to user interfaces released with text that do not explain the error to the user well, thus affecting the user experience.

In recent months, I have worked extensively with ChatGPT to find ways and techniques to improve the product designer’s workflow.

In this article, I want to share the technique I created to build a prompt for ChatGPT that will help product designers and UX writers easily generate a variety of useful error messages.

Once you create the prompt, you can run it repeatedly and get many error messages. Let’s dive in to see how to do it.

What this guide is not

Before diving into the process of creating user-friendly error messages with ChatGPT, I need to mention that I am not trying to present this guide as a recipe.

You can find numerous lists of prompts that you can execute to obtain results from ChatGPT. These prompts can cover various topics, not just the creation of error messages.

Instead of copying and pasting the examples of prompts that I will share here, I encourage you to extract the idea of how to create a prompt that will be useful to you. Learning how…