AI UX checklists and templates
Free checklists and templates for designing products with AI and large language model features. Each one is a full page you can read and tick through here, and a print-ready PDF you can download.
AI features fail differently from the rest of a product. They are wrong some of the time, they can be wrong in a confident voice, their output changes when the model changes, and in the EU some of them now come with legal disclosure duties. These resources cover the design work that follows from that: setting expectations, showing sources, handling hallucinations and outages, labelling AI content, and keeping people in control of agents that act on their behalf.
Every item is based on published guidance and links to it: Microsoft's 18 Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction (Amershi et al., CHI 2019), Google PAIR's People + AI Guidebook, Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for generative AI, research from Nielsen Norman Group, the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, and the official text of the EU AI Act and the GDPR on EUR-Lex. Where an item is our own advice rather than a source's, it has no link.
Checklists
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Checklist · 28 items · PDF
AI feature UX checklist
Microsoft's 18 Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction plus Google PAIR's guidance, as one checklist you can tick through for any AI feature.
Checklist · 33 items · PDF
AI chat and assistant UX checklist
The input box, starter prompts, streaming, stop and regenerate, citations, feedback, and controls for memory and chat history.
Checklist · 27 items · PDF
AI error, hallucination and failure-state checklist
Hallucinations, uncertainty, refusals, timeouts, outages and recovery: what to design for the times the AI gets it wrong.
Checklist · 23 items · PDF
AI disclosure, consent and privacy checklist
Labelling AI and AI-generated content, data use, consent and opt-outs, mapped to EU AI Act Article 50, GDPR and FTC guidance.
Checklist · 28 items · PDF
Agentic AI UX checklist
For AI that takes actions: permissions, plan previews, approval steps, stop and undo, activity logs and prompt injection.
Checklist · 54 items · PDF
UX audit checklist
The 54 checks behind the free UX Pickle audit: usability, copy, trust and conversion, with weights and fixes.
Templates
Fill them in on the page, copy the result as Markdown into your own docs, or print the PDF and write on it.
Template · 34 fields · PDF
AI feature spec (PRD) template
A fillable PRD for AI features: the user problem, where AI helps, failure modes, success metrics, human fallback and the evaluation plan.
Template · 27 fields · PDF
AI UX research and usability test plan template
A test plan for AI features with tasks, a planted wrong-answer scenario, trust calibration questions and reliance metrics.
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