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This week I took on two Articulate challenges: One featuring bingo, and one featuring Pantone’s new color(s) of the year.
The Idea
Pantone has been choosing a color of the year since 2000. I wanted to look back at all of them and make a game where you try to match each one with its name. Add the seductive allure of bingo and it’s “go” time.
The Inspiration Layout (Click to See Original Game)
The Design
Layout
David Anderson had supplied a few inspiration pieces in the bingo challenge, and I liked the way the LA Times laid out their Academy Awards bingo game. There was room on the side to add more info – or in my case quiz questions – in a nice, clean way.
Color Quiz Question
Colors
Since Pantone’s current-year colors are Rose Quartz and Serenity – and since featuring them was part of the challenge – I only used shades and tints of those colors to build the game. The only other colors are the subjects of the quiz questions.
Quiz Question
To keep it as sleek as possible, I only posed one question at the beginning. That sentence, along with the easily recognizable bingo layout, explains the entire interaction and doubles as the question for each quiz choice.
Quiz Bluffs
Unfortunately, I found Pantone’s idea of cool color names to be a big snooze. Too bad, because that meant my bluffs needed to be pretty middle-of-the-road too. (Though I worked in a few to keep myself entertained.)
Sometimes It Takes a Spreadsheet
Building It
It’s built in Storyline 2 on one slide with roughly a gabillion layers. I used a spreadsheet to keep the details of each color (name, year, Pantone number, RGB and hex values, where I used them in the grid, etc.) easy to find. It also helped enormously when tracking each one and creating triggers.
Ready to Color Your World?
Give it a try! I predict a colorful Pantone “Bingo!” in your near future.
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Nice work Jackie, your bluffs were very convincing!
Thanks, Dan! They were a challenge, since I only wanted to do obvious silly ones, but it makes it a little more challenging this way.
I love “crime scene” :D So much better then “Emerald” or “Jade”, how boring are these? ;-)
I’m with you, Nina! I’d have made them all outrageous (and soooooooooo much more fun than the originals) – but thought I should make it kind of a challenge, too. Anyway – so glad you liked it! Thanks for your comments. :)
Lovely, Jackie! Your creativity is so inspiring!
Thank you so much, Diana! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that. :)
Great job Jackie. 3’s a charm as it took me 3 angles to get my guesses right. hahaha. You did great on your color names as I found myself waffling on a few of them. I liked your layout as it was simple and easy to understand.
Hi Kaone!
Thank you so much for your very kind comments. I’m really glad you liked it! It was definitely fun coming up with Pantone color name bluffs.
Thanks for trying it out. :)
Jackie