{"id":"vis-col-study-app-avatars","audience":"college","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"examples","title":"Write prompts for 3 matching profile avatars","free":false,"task":"Your class project is a study-group app, and you need 3 placeholder avatars made with Gemini. Get Claude to write exactly 3 numbered prompts, plain text, under 200 words in total. Each repeats the same style line word for word, says square 1:1 with the head and shoulders centered, and describes a fictional student (not a real or famous person). The 3 must differ as listed in your notes and none includes text.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"CS 340 group project - \"StudyNest\" app\n\nWe need 3 avatar images for the demo profiles. Professor's rule: no photos of real people, including classmates, and no celebrity lookalikes.\n\nDemo profiles (fictional):\n1. \"Jun\" - studies chemistry, round glasses, short black hair, green hoodie\n2. \"Amara\" - studies nursing, braids pulled back, purple cardigan\n3. \"Theo\" - studies history, curly red hair, freckles, denim jacket\n\n(An earlier draft had a 4th profile, \"Leo\"; we cut it to keep the demo short.)\n\nStyle: flat vector illustration, soft pastel circle background, friendly expression, simple shapes. All 3 must look like they came from the same app.\n\nApp shows avatars in circles, 96 x 96 pixels, so the face must be centered and simple.\n\nA teammate wanted to use popular anime characters \"because everyone knows them\".","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":200},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Different styles per avatar","why":"The AI writes each prompt fresh, so one is 3D and one is flat.","fix":"Add: \"Repeat the same style line word for word.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Losing the details","why":"The AI makes generic students and may add the cut profile.","fix":"Add: \"Jun, Amara, Theo with their listed features. No Leo.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Lookalikes","why":"Without a rule, the AI may lean on anime or famous faces.","fix":"Add: \"Fictional person, not real, famous or anime.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Text and headings","why":"The AI adds name labels and bold headings.","fix":"Add: \"No text. Exactly 3 numbered prompts, plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText","maxWords","r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Asks for 3 prompts","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,20}prompts"]},{"label":"Repeats the style","patterns":["word for word","same style"]},{"label":"Sets the framing","patterns":["1\\s*:\\s*1","head and shoulders","centered"]},{"label":"Keeps people fictional","patterns":["fictional","not (a )?real","no (celebrit|anime|famous)"]},{"label":"Rules out text","patterns":["no text"]}],"hint":"Avatars need to match each other and be safe to use. Write one style line to repeat, list each person's details, and say they're fictional.","rubricLabels":["All 3 prompts repeat the same style line word for word and each says square 1:1 with head and shoulders centered","The 3 prompts describe Jun, Amara and Theo with their listed features (no Leo)","Each prompt says the person is fictional (not a real, famous or anime character) and says no text"]}