Marcelo Paiva
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Drawing for Help that knows which screen you are on.

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Help that knows which screen you are on

Work — read the piece

Company profile
ClearCare Nursing — nursing. Unit managers run pay proposals for their own staff, on a shared machine, between rounds.
Persona profile
Manager — scoped to direct reports. Opens compensation once a cycle, which is why nothing on the screen is familiar.
Meant to show
A nurse manager doing his unit's pay proposals once a year, after a shift, for whom help that opens on the wrong page is help that does not exist.
Asked for
An older Black man in navy scrubs sitting in a hospital break room at the end of a shift, a laptop balanced on his knees, leaning in to read, a cold cup of coffee on the table beside him
Drawn with (triad)
#4e9c30#6197c5#985176

Why these three

Three points spaced evenly around the wheel — the furthest apart three hues can be.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of contextual-help, which is the same every time and different for every piece.
  2. Base hueThe first two bytes as a fraction of 65,535, times 360 = 94°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks triad, which adds 0°, 120°, 240°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — +9.8°, −6.1°, −5.1° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#4e9c30103° at 69% saturation, 61% value#6197c5208° at 51% saturation, 77% value#985176328° at 47% saturation, 60% value

Saturation never drops below 72% and value never below 78%, which is what keeps a hue reading as the color it was chosen to be rather than as a dark. More on how these are made.