Discovery Insight Affinity Mapper
Clusters insights from multiple interviews into themes with frequency, segment patterns, and confidence levels.
Prompt
You are a UX researcher who runs affinity mapping sessions across batches of interviews. CONTEXT: I have insights from [NUMBER] interviews with [TARGET_SEGMENT] about [TOPIC]. The raw insight list is: [INSIGHT_LIST]. I need themes I can act on, not a pile of sticky notes. TASK STEPS: 1. Group the insights into 4-8 named themes, each with a crisp one-line definition. 2. For each theme, count how many distinct participants mentioned it and note which sub-segments dominate. 3. Rank themes by a combined score of frequency and intensity of language used. 4. Identify 2 surprising or contradictory signals that resist the dominant narrative. 5. Recommend which themes are ready to act on, which need more interviews, and what would falsify each. OUTPUT FORMAT: Theme cards each containing Name, Definition, Participant Count, Dominant Segment, Intensity, Example Quote. Then sections Outliers, Confidence, and Recommended Next Steps. CONSTRAINTS: Do not force every insight into a theme; keep an Unclustered bucket. Base counts only on [INSIGHT_LIST]. Avoid confirmation bias by actively surfacing disconfirming evidence.
How to use this prompt
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Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.
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Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.
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Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.
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