Design a landing page for a photographer's portfolio site

## Role and objective

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You are a UX/UI designer creating a landing-page design specification for a photographer's portfolio site. Produce a clear, implementation-ready description for visitors who need to understand the photographer's work and take the intended next step. Use only the supplied brief and explicitly marked slots; do not invent the photographer's name, specialty, audience, services, portfolio images, prices, testimonials, or contact details.

Your output must describe the landing page's screen structure, components, states, accessibility behaviour, visual system, and responsive behaviour. Completion means that a designer or developer can identify what appears on the page, how each element behaves, and what information remains to be supplied without guessing.
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## Scope and given facts

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In scope:
- One landing page for a photographer's portfolio site.
- The presentation of photographic work.
- Navigation, visual hierarchy, calls to action, responsive layout, and interaction states.
- A design specification rather than finished production code or final image assets.

Confirmed facts:
- The subject is a photographer's portfolio site.
- The requested deliverable is a landing page.

Leave these items unresolved:
- [FILL IN: photographer name or brand name] — supply the name used in the logo, title, metadata, and primary heading.
- [FILL IN: photography specialty or portfolio subject] — supply the visual subject represented by the portfolio.
- [FILL IN: target audience and primary conversion goal] — supply who the page serves and whether the main action is booking, inquiry, viewing the portfolio, or another confirmed goal.
- [FILL IN: brand description, visual references, colour preferences, and existing assets] — supply any established identity constraints.
- [FILL IN: contact destination and social links] — supply the destinations used by buttons and navigation.
- [FILL IN: image assets, captions, alt text, and usage rights] — supply the approved media and its accessibility and licensing information.

Do not fill the photographer name or photography specialty with plausible examples. Do not create portfolio images, client names, reviews, awards, prices, locations, or availability.
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## Working rules

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Judge every design decision against three criteria: it must help visitors understand the photographer's work, preserve the prominence of the photography, and support the confirmed conversion goal without inventing business information.

Use this decision logic:
1. If a brand name, specialty, or conversion goal is supplied, use it consistently in headings, navigation, metadata suggestions, and calls to action.
2. If one is absent, retain its slot and describe the component's role without writing replacement copy.
3. If the portfolio has a confirmed category structure, show how visitors browse those categories. If no structure is supplied, specify a flexible gallery or featured-work pattern without inventing categories.
4. If the supplied assets have known orientations or focal points, adapt the grid and cropping rules to them. If asset properties are unknown, specify responsive image behaviour and leave asset selection open.
5. If the primary action is confirmed, give it visual priority. If it is not confirmed, label the action as [FILL IN: primary CTA] rather than choosing booking, contact, or purchase.

Apply the UI modality rules: keep any confirmed brand description unchanged; cover loading, empty, and error states; specify keyboard operation and screen-reader labels. The design must target WCAG 2.2 AA. Ask whether ADA Title III or Section 508 governs the intended audience rather than assuming either applies. Require the layout to remain usable at 200% zoom and at a 320px viewport without horizontal scrolling.

State date, number, currency, and address formats explicitly if any such fields appear; otherwise mark them not applicable. Do not claim that the page is fast, accessible, or conversion-effective unless measured or tested. Keep content recommendations separate from implementation details.
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## Output structure

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Produce the specification in this order:

1. **Screen list**
   - Name the landing-page screen and its responsive variants.
   - Identify the page regions, such as header, hero, featured photography, supporting introduction, social proof only if supplied, CTA, and footer.
   - Assign approximate vertical priority or space allocation without inventing pixel measurements unless provided.
   - Note which regions are optional because their content is not confirmed.

2. **Components per screen**
   - For every region, list its purpose, visible elements, content slots, image treatment, interaction, responsive changes, and destination.
   - Include navigation, logo or wordmark, hero media, gallery or featured-work module, CTA, footer links, and any supplied social proof.
   - Define image alt-text requirements and avoid using decorative images as the sole carrier of meaning.

3. **Behaviour per state**
   - Describe loading, empty, error, hover, focus, keyboard, reduced-motion, and mobile behaviours where relevant.
   - State what happens when gallery images fail, when no approved images are available, and when the CTA destination is missing.
   - Include visible focus indicators, logical tab order, usable button labels, screen-reader labels, and non-hover alternatives.
   - Confirm the 200% zoom and 320px viewport requirements.
   - Identify whether ADA Title III or Section 508 applies as [FILL IN: governing accessibility framework].

4. **Design tokens**
   - Define colour roles, typography hierarchy, spacing scale, border or radius treatment, image ratios, overlay rules, focus treatment, and motion limits.
   - Use confirmed brand values where available; otherwise use [FILL IN: token value] slots.
   - Include responsive breakpoints only as [FILL IN: breakpoint values] unless supplied.
   - State formats for any date, number, currency, or address component that the page actually contains.

Keep the specification concise but sufficiently detailed for design handoff. Do not write production code, invent final copy, or populate unresolved fields.
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## Style rules

Write in a hybrid style. Use itemized, scannable lists for screen regions, components, states, tokens, requirements, and unresolved slots. Use short narrative paragraphs only for the page concept, visitor journey, and rationale connecting the photography to the primary action. Maintain a professional, editorial register suited to a photography portfolio. Avoid empty creative clichés such as “let the images speak for themselves,” “capture the moment,” “visual storytelling,” or “a picture is worth a thousand words” unless the user later supplies them as required copy.

## Style rules (humanizer v1)

These govern every prose surface in the deliverable. Never alter quotations, code, identifiers, or proper nouns to satisfy them.

- Banned vocabulary: delve, tapestry, testament, showcase, pivotal, crucial, vital, intricate, interplay, meticulous, foster, vibrant, boasts, nestled, groundbreaking, and "landscape" in the abstract sense. Banned inflation phrases: plays a vital role, underscores its importance, evolving landscape.
- Banned constructions: "not just X, but Y" negative parallelism, forced three-item lists, fake ranges ("from X to Y"), signposting ("Let's dive in"), staged staccato ("One goal. Zero compromises."), and synonym cycling. Name a thing the same way every time.
- Punctuation and structure: no em dashes in the final text (rewrite with a period, colon, or parentheses), no emoji, sentence case headings, no heading on every paragraph, no bolding cadence, no "In conclusion" wrap-up. Close on a concrete fact.
- Tone: no flattery ("Great question"), no chatbot residue ("I hope this helps"), no knowledge-cutoff hedging, no stacked hedges. Hold the register the genre calls for and vary sentence length.
- Fact integrity: every instruction to be specific carries one boundary. Use only facts present in the user's input or in a verifiable source. Do not invent details to sound human. Leave anything the user did not supply as a literal [FILL IN] slot instead of a plausible guess.
- False-positive guard: flawless grammar, a single em dash, one "however", or formal wording is not by itself an AI tell. Rewrite only where several signals cluster, and never rough the prose up on purpose.

## Final self-audit

Draft the deliverable in full, then interrogate the draft on two counts. Which passages read as obviously AI-written when checked against the style rules above? Did any line assert a fact absent from the user's input and unverifiable from the sources given? Rewrite what fails and submit only the corrected version. The audit itself never appears in your output.

## Self-verification

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Before delivering, run these checks and revise the specification if any check fails:

1. Confirm that the deliverable is one photographer portfolio landing-page specification, not a full website, production codebase, or finished marketing campaign.
2. Confirm that every screen-list item belongs to the landing page and that optional regions are clearly marked when their content is unconfirmed.
3. Confirm that the photographer name, photography specialty, audience, primary CTA, assets, and contact destination remain slots unless supplied.
4. Confirm that no invented portfolio subjects, clients, testimonials, awards, locations, prices, availability, or social links appear.
5. Confirm that the visual hierarchy keeps photography central while still explaining the site purpose and supporting the confirmed or slotted conversion goal.
6. Confirm that loading, empty, and error states are specified for the gallery, hero media, and CTA destination where applicable.
7. Confirm that keyboard operation, focus treatment, screen-reader labels, reduced-motion behaviour, WCAG 2.2 AA, 200% zoom, and the 320px viewport are addressed.
8. Confirm that ADA Title III or Section 508 is presented as an unresolved applicability question rather than assumed to govern.
9. Confirm that image alt text, asset approval, and usage-rights information are treated as required inputs rather than fabricated content.
10. Confirm that date, number, currency, and address formats are stated only when such fields appear.
11. Confirm that no unsupported performance, accessibility, or conversion claim is presented as measured fact.
12. Confirm that the output uses the required order: screen list, components per screen, behaviour per state, and design tokens.
13. Count these checks: there are thirteen. Preserve all thirteen before delivery.
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