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Clean up messy Figma files

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskGo through the 'Marketing Landing Pages' file and consolidate all duplicate text styles into…+
Go through the 'Marketing Landing Pages' file and consolidate all duplicate text styles into the existing 'Body/Default' style, then delete the unused styles. Make sure no text changes visually.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I hand off this 'Homepage Redesign' file to the developers, make it easy for them to…+
Before I hand off this 'Homepage Redesign' file to the developers, make it easy for them to navigate. Group all related layers, rename ambiguous frames like 'Group 1' to 'Hero Section', and remove any hidden or unused elements.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentThe new designer, trying to hit a tight deadline, just created 50 new local text and color…+
The new designer just added 50 new local styles to our main product file for a small feature, and now the file is huge and slow.
The new designer, trying to hit a tight deadline, just created 50 new local text and color styles for a single feature within our main product file. Now the file is painfully slow, and I'm worried about breaking the design system. I can't tell her she messed up without demotivating her. What's the best way to quickly clean this up and prevent it from happening again without making her feel like a failure?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternMy design files always become a mess of unorganized layers, duplicate styles, and unused…+
My design files consistently become bloated and hard to navigate after a few weeks of active work, slowing everyone down.
My design files always become a mess of unorganized layers, duplicate styles, and unused components after a few weeks of active work. This slows down handoff and makes collaboration painful. What habit should I change to keep my files consistently clean and easy for the team to use?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Figma's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.