{"id":"vis-slide-background-roadmap","audience":"product-managers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"constraints","title":"Get a slide background with room for your title","free":false,"task":"You're presenting the product roadmap and want a background image for the title slide, made with Gemini. Get Claude to write one paste-ready prompt under 100 words, plain text. It must say 16:9, keep the left 40% of the image calm and empty for your title, name all 3 brand hex codes, and ban all text, numbers, charts and icons. End with a line that starts \"Avoid:\" and lists at least 4 things.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"From the brand guide (Fernhill Software, 2026 edition)\nPrimary: Deep navy #0B3D91\nAccent: Teal #3FC1C9\nNeutral: Cloud #F5F7FA\nStyle words: calm, precise, forward-moving. Prefer abstract shapes and soft light over stock photos of people.\n\nSlack, #roadmap-review:\nMaya (VP Product): For the title slide can we put the whole Q1-Q4 timeline right in the image? Milestones: Q1 Billing v2, Q2 Mobile offline mode, Q3 Partner API, Q4 AI search. Would look slick.\nOwen (Design): Last quarter's deck used a bright orange gradient, people said it felt loud.\nMaya: Also loved the look of that big rival company's keynote, the one with the glowing glass wave. Can we just do that?\nOwen: Title text will be white and sit on the left side, so whatever's behind it needs to be quiet.\nRavi (PM): Remember the room projector washes out pale colors.\n\nPresentation: Thursday all-hands, about 300 people, projected on a wide screen and shared as PDF after.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Putting the roadmap in the picture","why":"The AI tries to draw the Q1-Q4 timeline, and image tools turn small text into gibberish.","fix":"Add: \"No text, letters, numbers, charts or icons anywhere.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Forgetting where the title goes","why":"The AI fills the whole frame with shapes, so your white title has nothing quiet to sit on.","fix":"Add: \"16:9. Keep the left 40% calm and empty for the title.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"No list of exclusions","why":"Image tools add stray words, people and loud colors unless told not to.","fix":"End with: \"Avoid: text, numbers, charts, people, orange.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Getting a design memo","why":"The AI explains its choices with headings and bold text.","fix":"Add: \"Output only the prompt and the Avoid line, plain text.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"Abstract-art prompts sprawl unless capped.","fix":"Add: \"Prompt paragraph about 50 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets the aspect ratio","patterns":["16\\s*:\\s*9"]},{"label":"Saves room for the title","patterns":["left (40|side|third)","empty","negative space","copy space"]},{"label":"Bans text in the image","patterns":["no (text|letters|words|numbers)"]},{"label":"Gives the hex colors","patterns":["#0B3D91","hex"]},{"label":"Adds an Avoid line","patterns":["avoid"]}],"hint":"A slide background has one job: stay out of the way of your title. Say the shape, where the empty space goes, the exact colors, and that nothing readable belongs in it.","rubricLabels":["States 16:9 and keeps the left 40% (or left side) calm, empty and low-detail for the title","Explicitly rules out text, numbers, charts and icons in the image, in the prompt or the Avoid line (no roadmap or milestones drawn in)","Ends with a line starting 'Avoid:' that lists at least 4 things to leave out"]}