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If you watched the Bills\/Jets game on November 12th, you probably had a myriad of thoughts when first you turned on the game. In my house it was something to the effect of “even the NFL couldn’t wait to decorate for Christmas.”<\/em><\/p>\n

My split-second later thought was “Wow, being colorblind would make this game really hard to watch.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Turns out, I was right.<\/p>\n

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I’ve recently started a personal research project on color usage, design, and messages (which I will eventually share here). This example illustrates in a real-world setting the importance of color, and it’s usage. I’m sure Nike thought that those uniforms looked cool and the entire internet\/social media universe would be talking about them all night and the next day… and they are, but the topic is different than expected.<\/p>\n

Ever since I had a color-blind (albeit unknown to me) CFO ask me for a scorecard and I delivered a standard R\/Y\/G scorecard I have been hypersensitive to color usage for data visualization. Who would have thought it would have leaked in to a nationally televised NFL game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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