bitmax/art/04_ui-menus/ui-inbox-new-rule-dialog.json
monster feeadcbd76 art: add The Art of Boring Software — concept-art prompt library
101 advanced JSON image-generation prompts (Gemini 2.5 Flash / 'Nano Banana') for the ENTROPY OS concept-art book, organized by function:
- 00_art-direction: the visual canon (_ART_DIRECTION.md), JSON _TEMPLATE.json, worked _EXAMPLE.json
- 01_key-art (9), 02_characters (16), 03_environments (14), 04_ui-menus (12),
  05_key-moments (16), 06_hardware-props (12), 07_branding-ephemera (12), 08_motifs (10)

Every prompt is a self-contained Nano-Banana-ready paragraph plus structured fields (aspect ratio,
master-palette hexes, lighting, composition, text_in_image, period-anachronism avoid list, model
tips). One visual language: beige-and-grey dominant, one accent glow per image, teal reserved for the
ominous, locked to 1998-99. art/README.md indexes all 101.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 16:45:31 +10:00

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{
"id": "ui-inbox-002",
"title": "INBOX ZERO — New Rule (Triage Dialog Plate)",
"pertains_to": {
"game": "Vol V — INBOX ZERO",
"lore_chapter": "Book V — The Sysadmin",
"category": "ui-menus",
"type": "settings dialog plate"
},
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution_hint": "full-bleed, print quality, ~2048px long edge",
"prompt": "Concept-art UI plate of the INBOX ZERO 'New Rule' dialog — a Win98 mail-rule wizard glowing on a bulbous beige CRT in a dark room, the encoding of human judgment into automation. The dialog fills most of the curved screen in administrative beige-grey (#c0c0c0) with the hard doubled bevel and a navy title bar (#000080→#1084d0) reading 'New Rule'. Inside, a condition-builder laid out as plain grey sentence-controls: an 'IF' clause with a dropdown 'subject contains' and a sunken text field holding a monospaced regex, then a 'THEN' clause with a dropdown 'Archive' — the whole thing reading like a small law being written, judgment turned into a regular expression. Below sit a preview list of messages this rule would silently sweep away, and three beige buttons. The navy chrome is the dominant non-grey tone, deliberately authoritative; the single accent and only true glow is one navy-blue highlighted 'OK' / commit element (#1084d0) catching the light, a cold blue cast onto the beige bezel and the dust — the quiet weight of a decision made permanent. 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 blue highlight against deep shadow, the dark room and a yellowed keyboard sinking away. Mood: quiet, administrative, faintly tragic; teaching a machine which voices to never hear again.",
"art_direction": {
"style": "painterly digital concept art, prestige game art-book dialog plate, quiet-administrative",
"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 highlighted-commit blue", "#dfdfdf bevel highlight", "#0b0b0b dark room"],
"lighting": "single practical source — the CRT; one navy-blue highlighted commit element as the only glow, cold blue cast on beige bezel and dust; deep shadow",
"composition": "rule-builder dialog filling the curved screen, IF/THEN sentence-controls, a regex field, a preview list, blue-highlighted OK drawing the eye",
"camera_lens": "50mm, head-on, slight CRT curvature",
"mood": "quiet, administrative, faintly tragic; judgment encoded into automation"
},
"key_details": [
"Win98 'New Rule' wizard dialog with navy title bar, doubled bevel, navy chrome dominant",
"an 'IF' clause: dropdown 'subject contains' and a sunken field holding a monospaced regex",
"a 'THEN' clause: dropdown 'Archive'",
"a small preview list of messages the rule would sweep away",
"one navy-blue highlighted 'OK' / commit element (#1084d0) as the single accent glow",
"cold blue cast on the beige bezel and suspended dust",
"bulbous beige CRT, phosphor bloom, scanlines, chromatic aberration, yellowed keyboard in shadow, degraded-scan grain"
],
"text_in_image": "'New Rule' in the title bar; 'IF subject contains [ (re:|fw:|URGENT) ]'; 'THEN Archive'; buttons 'OK', 'Cancel', 'Add Action'",
"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 rule-builder UI", "drag-and-drop card UI", "rounded corners", "anti-aliased modern fonts"
],
"references": [
"Win98 mail-rule wizards with IF/THEN sentence-builders photographed off a CRT",
"a sunken text field holding a regular expression",
"navy chrome with a single highlighted commit button",
"fluorescent-dystopia software, not neon-cyberpunk"
],
"nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 16:9. Navy chrome is allowed as authority; keep the ONE accent glow on a single highlighted blue OK/commit element. Render the title, the IF/THEN clauses, and the regex in the field crisply (monospaced for the regex).",
"filename": "ui-inbox-new-rule-dialog.json"
}