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Re: Color Change background
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lugnet.color
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Thu, 13 May 2004 16:35:58 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote:
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Now, on with the story! First a little background.
The Design Lab is an internal group at the LEGO Company who is responsible
for overseeing the “system” aspects of everything the LEGO Company does.
They’re the ones that maintain the element library, element history, “own”
the element design process (working with others in the company), own and
guide the growth of the element library (ensuring the element selection
doesn’t get out of control like the late 90s), own the color palette, and
many other tasks. Basically, they work to ensure that the system works long
term, and is the most robust, consumer (kids and adults) friendly it can
possibly be.
Around the beginning of 2000, we found ourselves with a color palette that
was growing far too quickly, and far too organically. There wasn’t enough
vision put into how we were expanding and adding new colors. The decision was
made to apply the same type of thinking we now use in approaching the long
term element design process to the color palette. The desired outcome was to
create a color palette that would work effectively for years to come, and
that could scale easily and correctly. We didn’t want to end up with the same
out-of-control color situation as we did with elements in the late 90s – that
was a hard lesson to learn, but we learned it well.
This initiative led to a revised color palette. This new color palette
included some deletions of low-use colors, additions of new colors, and some
tweaks to the existing colors. The goal in all these changes was completely
and totally focused on creating the absolute best set of LEGO colors
possible.
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Jake, love ya like a brother, but these “Design Lab” people need to be taken out
behind the woodshed and beaten within a plate thickness of their lives...
So it is pretty much what the AFOL community figured. A small group of people
took it upon themselves to muck up something that was working pretty well.
Instead of taking the sensible approach -- getting rid of some of the whacked
colors that have been popping up like weeds -- they messed up three classic
colors...
<sigh>
JohnG, GMLTC
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