Idea prompting

Ideas seem to appear anytime and everywhere, slowly emerging or popping up seemingly from nowhere. From a blank piece of paper to the proverbial "Aha!" moment. But what human ingenuity is needed to generate ideas in the age of artifical intelligence, AI? When prompt engineering for a text-to-text model, or a text-to-image model can help produce the desired idea (output). Idea prompting, then, is becoming increasingly a useful ideation tool for designers because large language models, LLMs, have the ability to understand prompts, also called "in-context learning". Prompting skills, which involves specifying or adjusting the AI prompt, moreover, help designers better understand the capabilities and limitations of LLMs. That is, knowing how to write concise, clear prompts will ensure that any AI prompt will produce a strong response.The iterative process of prompting, then, enables designers to generate, revise and refine ideas producing in-depth creative content.