{"id":"vis-pm-persona-portraits-fictional","audience":"product-managers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"examples","title":"Write 3 matching persona portraits that are clearly fictional","free":false,"task":"You're presenting 3 user personas and want a portrait for each, made with Gemini. Get Claude to write exactly 3 numbered prompts, plain text, under 210 words in total. Each repeats the same style line word for word (illustrated, not photographic), says square 1:1 with head and shoulders centered, shows the persona's setting from the research summary, and says the person is fictional and not based on a real person.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Personas from the Q3 research synthesis (Grocery delivery app \"Basketly\")\n\n1. \"Busy Parent Priya\" - 30s, works hospital shifts, orders between shifts on her phone. Setting: hospital break room, scrubs, coffee.\n2. \"Budget Student Marcus\" - 20, college sophomore, splits orders with roommates. Setting: dorm desk with a laptop and textbooks.\n3. \"Retired Planner Elaine\" - 70, plans weekly orders on a tablet, likes big buttons. Setting: sunny kitchen table with a paper list.\n\n(A 4th persona, \"Gym Regular Dev\", was merged into Marcus after round 2.)\n\nResearch team rule: persona images must be clearly illustrations so nobody thinks they're real participants. We promised participants their photos would never be used.\n\nStyle for the deck: warm flat illustration, soft shadows, muted palette, same look across all three.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":210},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Photoreal personas","why":"The AI asks for realistic photos, which look like real participants.","fix":"Add: \"Illustration, not a photo.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Different styles","why":"The AI rewords the style, so the 3 slides don't match.","fix":"Add: \"Repeat the same style line word for word.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Losing the research details","why":"The AI makes generic portraits or adds the merged persona.","fix":"Add each persona's setting from the summary.","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not marking them fictional","why":"Nothing stops the tool from echoing a real face.","fix":"Add: \"Fictional person, not based on a real person.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Headings and notes","why":"The AI bolds persona names and adds tips.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 3 numbered prompts, plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText","maxWords"]}],"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":"Asks for illustration","patterns":["illustrat","not (a )?photo"]},{"label":"Marks them fictional","patterns":["fictional","not based on"]},{"label":"Sets the framing","patterns":["1\\s*:\\s*1","head and shoulders"]}],"hint":"Persona images should never look like real research participants. Ask for one repeated illustrated style, each persona's setting, and say they're fictional.","rubricLabels":["All 3 prompts repeat the same style line word for word, and it asks for illustration, not a photo","The 3 prompts show Priya in a hospital break room, Marcus at a dorm desk and Elaine at a kitchen table (no 4th persona), each square 1:1 with head and shoulders centered","Each prompt says the person is fictional and not based on a real person"]}