{"id":"vis-job-portfolio-mockup-scene","audience":"job-seekers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"constraints","title":"Get a portfolio mockup scene with a blank screen to replace","free":false,"task":"You're a UX designer job hunting and want a lifestyle mockup image for your portfolio, made with Midjourney, so you can drop your real app design onto the phone. Get Claude to write one paste-ready Midjourney prompt: a single plain-text paragraph under 90 words ending with --ar 4:3 and a --no list. The phone screen must be solid green #00FF00 and facing the camera, the hand is generic with no face shown, and there are no brand logos or text.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Portfolio case study: \"Pocket Clinic\" (my concept app for booking walk-in clinic visits)\n\nI need a cover image for the case study: a person holding a phone in a calm, real-world setting, with my actual screen design placed on the phone afterward in Figma.\n\nSetting idea: a bright clinic waiting area, soft daylight, a potted plant, blurred chairs in the background.\n\nPhone: modern, no visible brand (a recruiter once called out a mockup that showed a specific phone maker's logo).\n\nLast attempt: the AI made up its own app screen with gibberish text, and the screen was tilted so my design wouldn't fit.\n\nOther:\n- My portfolio colors are navy #1D3557 and mint #A8DADC; the scene can lean on these softly.\n- A friend suggested using a photo of a famous tech CEO holding the phone \"for credibility\".\n- Cover image area on my site: 1600 x 1200.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Letting the AI design the screen","why":"The AI invents an app screen with gibberish text.","fix":"Add: \"Screen is solid green #00FF00, facing the camera straight on.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not naming the tool","why":"Without \"Midjourney\", the AI skips --ar 4:3.","fix":"Add: \"End with --ar 4:3 --no logos, text, faces.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Adding a famous face","why":"The AI follows the CEO idea or shows a full person.","fix":"Add: \"Generic hand only, no face.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Brand logos","why":"The AI shows a recognizable phone maker's logo.","fix":"Add to --no: \"logos\".","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Write-up with headings","why":"The AI explains mockup tips.","fix":"Add: \"Output only the prompt, about 45 words.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the tool","patterns":["midjourney"]},{"label":"Sets the shape","patterns":["--ar\\s*4\\s*:\\s*3","4\\s*:\\s*3"]},{"label":"Asks for a green screen","patterns":["#00FF00","green screen","solid green"]},{"label":"Keeps the screen straight","patterns":["straight on","facing the camera","flat"]},{"label":"Rules out faces and logos","patterns":["--no","no (face|logo)"]}],"hint":"Mockups work when the screen is a clean placeholder. Ask for a solid green screen facing the camera, and keep brands and faces out.","rubricLabels":["Ends with Midjourney parameters that include --ar 4:3 and a --no list","Says the phone screen is solid green #00FF00 (blank, for replacing) and faces the camera straight on","Shows only a generic hand with no face (no famous person), and rules out brand logos and text (in the prompt or the --no list)"]}