PROMPTS
Why Your AI Designs Always Look Like AI (And How To Fix It) ⚡
AI design isn't bad. Your prompts are. The framework I use to write prompts that actually produce elevated visuals, plus where to grab 50 free Nano Banana Pro.
Source: Read Amir Mushich’s 50 design prompts on X →
AI design has a reputation for being bad. The truth is the tools are great. The prompts are bad. A generic prompt gives you a polished but obviously AI-looking image, every time. That's not the model failing, that's the prompt asking for generic.
This guide does two things. First, it walks through the framework I use to write prompts that produce elevated AI visuals (works for Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney, Sora, anything). Second, it points you to 50 specific paste-ready prompts from a designer who's worked with Warner Music and Spotify — the cheat code that compresses six months of prompting practice into an afternoon.
Why Most AI Design Looks Like AI
Every AI image tool produces the median of its training data when you give it a generic prompt. "A modern app screen." "A beautiful logo." "A startup ad." The model averages every modern app screen, every beautiful logo, every startup ad it's seen. The output is technically polished and creatively dead.
Good designers don't ask for the median. They ask for a specific thing in a specific style with specific references and specific constraints. The same exact rule applies to AI prompts. The more specific the input, the further the output gets from generic AI slop.
The litmus test: if your prompt could describe 10,000 different images, you're going to get one that looks like 10,000 different images mashed together. If your prompt could only describe ~10 specific images, the output will look like one of those ten.
Paste This Before You Make Any AI Visual
Paste this into Claude before you ask any AI image tool (Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney, Sora, DALL-E) to make a visual. Claude will interview you and hand back a brief specific enough to produce a non-generic result.
Where To Grab The 50 Prompts
Amir Mushich (ex-Warner Music, ex-Spotify) posted 50 of his top Nano Banana Pro prompts to X for free. They are paste-ready. The link is in your DM once you comment BANANA on the video, or you can grab it directly here:
https://x.com/AmirMushich/status/2019073081881293302
What's worth doing is not just copying his prompts but studying their structure. Notice the level of specificity. Notice the references he cites. Notice the constraints. Then write your own using the same shape. That's how you go from "I have 50 prompts" to "I can write any prompt I need."
If Nano Banana Pro isn't your default tool yet: it's a strong AI image tool, especially for stylized illustration and brand work. Most of Amir's prompts also work with minor tweaks in Midjourney and Sora, so don't feel locked in.
Build Your Own Reference Library
Once you've used Amir's 50 prompts as a starting point, the real upgrade is building your own paste-ready library specific to your brand and your work.
The shift in your taste
After a month of running specific, reference-driven prompts, you'll start to spot generic AI design in everyone else's work instantly. That's the real win. You become someone who can tell the difference between AI slop and AI used by someone with taste. The market is going to reward that distinction heavily over the next two years.
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