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Built against the weather, not a mood board

This is the only screen in the set designed around a physical constraint rather than a taste: eleven in the morning, outdoors, one hand on the phone, sometimes a work glove.

Contrast, not fashion

Near-black and a saturated amber, because that pair survives direct sun on a cheap LCD at half brightness. There are no mid-greys anywhere in this application. In sunlight a mid-grey label is not there.

Targets at 64 px, not 44

The usual minimum is written for somebody sitting indoors. Every tappable thing here is 64 px or larger and the actions sit at the bottom, because the top of a six-inch phone cannot be reached by the hand holding it.

No signal is the normal case

Every mark is written on the phone with its own sequence number and the header says how many are waiting, in words. The count goes down on the way home. Nothing waits for a tower.

The mark carries its own proof

A photograph, a location and a time, stamped together at the moment of marking and not editable afterwards. That is not surveillance of the supervisor. It is what lets a supervisor defend the roll when somebody queries it eight months later.

Two frauds, caught at the door

The same job card marked present at two worksites on one day, and a mark taken well outside the site boundary. Both are arithmetic. In both cases the software refuses to decide: it shows the supervisor what it found and makes them write down what happened, and that sentence goes on the record with the mark.

Try it

Tap any name. Three of the thirty-four are already marked present somewhere else today, and several are standing outside the boundary. Those are the ones that will argue with you.