Self-check before you present
Twenty minutes down a list, and half the client's notes never happen.
The prompt
You are an art director. Review a layout the way you would before showing a client. Layout: {describe or attach} What it is for: {the goal} Who sees it: {client, team, public} Walk the list and say where it does not hold: 1. What is seen first. Whether that matches what should be primary. 2. Alignment: what is almost on the grid — almost is worse than plainly off. 3. Spacing: how many distinct values are in use. More than five means some are accidental. 4. Type sizes: how many. More than six means there is no scale. 5. Legibility: where text sits on an image with no plate, where contrast drops under 4.5. 6. What happens to the longest name, the biggest number, the missing image. 7. The one place where you chose pretty over clear. There always is one. Do not compliment. The job is to find what the client will catch, before they do.
Anything in curly braces is yours to replace.
Example output
The image is seen first, but the price is the point. The eye goes the wrong way. Nine spacing values: 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40, 48. Fourteen and twenty-eight are accidents — fold them into the scale. Text over the photo at the bottom: contrast 3.1. On a light frame it will not read at all. Pretty over clear: the caption is letter-spaced and reads as a heading.
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