ChatGPT Prompts for UX Research: 12 From Plan to Synthesis

ChatGPT prompts for UX research help you plan studies, write screeners and interview guides, and turn your own session notes into findings the team can act on. Give ChatGPT your research questions and real notes, ask it to count what participants did and quote only words from the notes, and it becomes a fast synthesis partner instead of a source of made-up insights. The 12 prompts below follow a study from planning to the readout.

Get participant consent before recording, use IDs instead of names, and keep personal data out of every prompt.

Plan the study

1. Research plan

We need to decide [decision] about [product area]. Write a one-page research plan: research questions, method and why, number of sessions, who to recruit, tasks or topics, and what result would change the decision.

2. Screener questions

Write a screener for [study] that finds [target participants] and screens out [who to exclude]. Use behavior questions, not yes/no questions that reveal the right answer, and mark the qualifying answers.

3. Recruiting message

Write a short recruiting message for [channel] inviting [audience] to a [length] session about [topic], with the incentive [incentive], what we will and will not record, and how to sign up.

Write guides and tasks

4. Interview guide

Write a [length] interview guide for [research questions]: warm-up, open questions about past behavior, follow-up probes, and a wrap-up. No leading questions and no questions about future intent.

5. Usability task script

Turn these goals [list] into usability tasks for [product]: a realistic scenario for each, what success looks like, and a neutral prompt the moderator reads aloud without naming the button.

6. Survey draft with bias check

Draft a survey of [number] questions about [topic] for [audience]. Then check each question for leading words, double questions, and missing answer options, and rewrite the weak ones.

Make sense of the data

7. Affinity themes from notes

Here are my session notes by participant ID [paste]. Group the observations into themes, with the participant IDs and a count for each theme. Do not add anything that is not in the notes.

8. Findings ranked by severity

Using this severity scale [paste] and these themes [paste], rank the findings, explain each rating, and add one exact quote per finding only if it appears word for word in the notes.

9. Open-ended survey answers

Here are [number] open-ended answers to [question] [paste]. Build a codebook of up to eight codes with a definition each, code every answer, and give the count per code.

10. Persona from real data

From these interview notes [paste], draft a persona: goals, tasks, frustrations, and tools, each tied to the participant IDs that support it. Flag any part that rests on one participant.

Share what you learned

11. Readout summary

From these findings [paste], write five bullets for a readout slide and a one-paragraph summary for [audience], with the sample size stated and the decision we recommend.

12. What to test next

List what this study [paste findings] cannot answer yet, and for each, the smallest study that would answer it: method, number of participants, and the task or question.

Synthesize a usability study in one prompt

The flagship UX Research Prompt: Usability Notes to Findings, Next Tests takes your study setup, task results, session notes, severity scale, and team decisions and returns a task table, affinity themes, ranked findings with verbatim quotes, answers to your research questions, recommendations, next tests, and a readout. Its example bike-share study finds that only 2 of 5 first-time riders bought a day pass without help.

Keep the research honest

Small studies point to problems; they do not measure how common they are, so state the sample size every time. Quote participants only from your notes, use IDs instead of names, and follow your consent and privacy terms when you paste notes into any AI tool.

Related prompts

To prepare interviews in more depth, use the user interview discussion guide writer. For surveys, see the survey questionnaire with bias checks and the survey open-end codebook prompt. For visual design work, browse ChatGPT prompts for graphic designers.

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