Adora Health · direction 01 approved · production round

Alice, built from layered planes

A·l·I·c·e — the italic capitals carry the AI

The portrait is visibly constructed from overlapping soft-edged planes. The artificial signal is the construction itself, not an added effect. She reads as a composed operating partner: direct but soft gaze, relaxed brows, a small smile that reassures rather than celebrates — and she stays steady when she is being disagreed with.

Alice
Adora prototype copilot
45%
trusted adviser
30%
thoughtful colleague
15%
intelligent system
10%
optimistic guide

Behaviour

Seven states, one face

Every state is a small deviation from the same composed baseline. Nothing exaggerates: brows move fractions, the smile never opens, and the ambient field carries the workload instead of the face.

Composed, slight smile, steady eye contact.

Smile
0.7
Brow
0
Eye open
1
Gaze
0
Ambient
0.5
Tilt
-2°

In context

Holding steady through disagreement

An objection lowers the ambient field and quiets the smile — she looks thoughtful, never wounded or defensive. Praise warms the cheek and coral undertone by a few percent, nothing more.

Morning. Want to look at yesterday's intake numbers?
AvailableComposed, slight smile, steady eye contact.

Scale

From 24 px mark to introduction portrait

Below 56 px the drawing simplifies automatically: facets flatten, the nose and lash lines drop, the eyes become solid discs and the mouth thickens so it survives the pixel grid. The silhouette and the coral ring stay constant, so it is recognisably the same person.

24 px
40 px
64 px
96 px
160 px
240 px

Surfaces

Light and dark, ring and ringless

The identity ring is the honest 'this is an assistant' marker. It can be dropped when the avatar sits inside a card that already frames her.

Expression map

The full set at conversational size

Reference sheet for engineering and QA: this is what each state should look like at 80 px in a message thread.

AvailableComposed, slight smile, steady eye contact.
ListeningSmile reduces, attention increases, faint ambient pulse.
ThinkingFace stays present; the knowledge field carries the work.
RespondingWarm neutral, minimal natural movement.
Concern heardQuieter, thoughtful — not sad, alarmed or defensive.
Useful feedbackSlightly warmer, with a gentle accent-colour response.
Can't confirmComposed uncertainty — no shrug, no worry.

Palette

Colour roles

Navy
Structure, hair, garment, linework
--ann-navy
Teal
System signal, shoulder plane
--ann-teal
Coral
Warmth and the live thread — never alarm
--ann-coral
Apricot
Background plane only
--ann-apricot
Lilac
Ambient field falloff
--ann-lilac
Warm ground
Page and highlight planes
--ann-warm

Rules

How to use her

Motion is ambient, never performative: a 7 s breath, a natural blink every 3–7 s, and 460 ms eased transitions between states. Reduced-motion users get the same expressions, held still.

Do

  • Keep the smile small — reassurance, not celebration.
  • Let the ambient field and ring carry "working", not the face.
  • Use coral for warmth and the live thread only.
  • Drop to the simplified mark below 56 px.

Don't

  • Add worry, apology or surprise to the brows.
  • Bounce, wave or use spring motion.
  • Render her photoreal or add a corporate headset.
  • Use red, or coral, to signal an error state.