{
  "id": "ui-inbox-001",
  "title": "INBOX ZERO — The Three-Pane Client (UI Hero Plate)",
  "pertains_to": {
    "game": "Vol V — INBOX ZERO",
    "lore_chapter": "Book V — The Sysadmin",
    "category": "ui-menus",
    "type": "ui hero plate"
  },
  "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
  "resolution_hint": "full-bleed, print quality, ~2048px long edge",
  "prompt": "Concept-art UI hero plate of INBOX ZERO, an Outlook-97-style three-pane mail client, glowing on a bulbous beige CRT in a dark room — the inbox flood, the last human drowning in light. The screen, in slight barrel-curvature, fills the frame with the period mail UI in administrative beige-grey (#c0c0c0), a navy title bar (#000080→#1084d0) reading 'INBOX ZERO', a menu bar and toolbar of tiny raised beige buttons. The classic three panes: a left folder tree (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Deleted, the Inbox bolded with a swelling unread count); a center message list with sender, subject and time columns, many bold unread rows, a scatter of small red flag icons and unread envelope marks; and a right reading pane showing a clipped message. The single saturated accent and only true glow is red — a red unread counter reading a large number and a red 'OVERWHELMED' status band, the alarm of an inbox past saving, casting a tense red wash onto the beige bezel and the dust. Painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, faint CRT scanlines, phosphor bloom, chromatic aberration and grain, a degraded 1999-scan look. Lighting is low and practical — the monitor is the only source, the red status glow against deep shadow, the dark room and a ball-mouse sinking away. Mood: exhausted, drowning, melancholy-administrative; the number never reaches zero, and the only human left is dissolving into the queue.",
  "art_direction": {
    "style": "painterly digital concept art, prestige game art-book UI plate, exhausted-melancholy",
    "medium": "painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, art-of-the-game book plate, CRT scanlines, phosphor bloom, grain",
    "palette": ["#c0c0c0 administrative beige", "#808080 bevel shadow", "#000080 dialog navy", "#1084d0 title gradient", "#c0392b overwhelmed red", "#0b0b0b dark room"],
    "lighting": "single practical source — the CRT; red unread counter and 'OVERWHELMED' band as the only glow, tense wash on beige bezel and dust; deep shadow",
    "composition": "three-pane mail UI filling the curved screen, folder tree left, dense unread message list center, reading pane right, red status as focal alarm",
    "camera_lens": "50mm, head-on, slight CRT curvature",
    "mood": "exhausted, drowning, melancholy-administrative; an inbox that never reaches zero"
  },
  "key_details": [
    "Outlook-97-style three-pane client titled 'INBOX ZERO' with navy title bar and doubled bevel",
    "left folder tree (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Deleted) with the Inbox bolded and a swelling unread count",
    "center message list with sender/subject/time columns, many bold unread rows, small red flags and envelope marks",
    "right reading pane showing a clipped message",
    "a red unread counter (large number) and a red 'OVERWHELMED' status band — the single accent glow",
    "tense red wash on the beige bezel and suspended dust",
    "bulbous beige CRT, phosphor bloom, scanlines, chromatic aberration, ball-mouse in shadow, degraded-scan grain"
  ],
  "text_in_image": "'INBOX ZERO' in the title bar; folder names 'Inbox', 'Sent', 'Drafts', 'Deleted'; an unread counter like 'Unread: 4,096'; a red status band 'OVERWHELMED'",
  "avoid": [
    "smartphones", "modern flat/material UI", "flat-panel widescreen monitors", "USB-C", "OLED",
    "bright saturated cartoon colors", "glossy 3D render look", "neon cyberpunk cliché", "mascots",
    "rarity gems", "modern minimalism", "RGB gamer lighting", "emoji", "contemporary fashion or cars",
    "modern webmail UI", "gmail-style labels", "rounded corners", "anti-aliased modern fonts"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Outlook-97 three-pane mail layout photographed off a CRT",
    "a folder tree with a bold unread-count and a flagged message list",
    "a red status band as the single alarm color",
    "fluorescent-dystopia software, not neon-cyberpunk"
  ],
  "nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 16:9. The ONE accent glow is the red unread counter + 'OVERWHELMED' band; keep panes and chrome beige-and-grey with navy title. Request the title, folder names, unread counter, and 'OVERWHELMED' rendered crisply in a pixel-MS-Sans look.",
  "filename": "ui-inbox-zero-three-pane-hero.json"
}