The handles could be designed to overlap in the 3rd axis. I think I've seen scissors like this but I can't find an example.
Which emoji scissors close (2020)
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Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
>You don't have to apply force in any different direction if you put scissors with symmetric handles in the wrong hand. Yes! You do! So scissors hinge on a pivot point, and they hinge in two dimensions. They mostly move in the dimension that they cut in, but they also move a little in the perpendicular dimension. And in order to bring the cutting edges closer , you move the handle ends farther away. If you're using t…
Your thumb and fingers of both hands are equally capable of producing both separating and joining force while closing. You learned to do it one way, by pushing out with your thumb and pulling in with your other fingers, so that way feels better to you, but that's a property of you not a property of scissors.
It's got nothing to do with hand capability, you've misunderstood. For an ambidextrous person, using right-handed scissors in their right hand will work properly, using right-handed scissors in their left hand will work poorly. And vice versa for left-handed scissors.
When holding scissors, the bottom blade is held fairly steady. The top blade tends to get pushed away from the rest of the hand by the action of the thumb. If the top blade is on the far side of the scissors (away from the hand), the far blade edge will get pushed towards the near blade edge when the thumb handle is pushed away (because the blade is on the other side of the hinge from the handle). If the top blade is on the near side of the scissors (the hand side), by pushing the thumb handle away from you, you are separating the two blades rather than pushing them together.
So on right handed scissors, with the thumb handle facing up, the thumb blade is on the left side of the hinge. That way the natural "push away" force from the thumb will keep the blades close together when held in the right hand. On left handed scissors, the thumb blade is on the right side of the hinge, for the correct push-together force when held in the left hand.
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#83Similar posts: - Ants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 - Smiling faces: https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m... - Butterflies: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ - Trains: https://mobile.twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/11925577307096... - Horses: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?l... - Planets: https://mobile.twitter.com/physicsJ…
The additional commentary is nice. Sites like https://emojipedia.org et al. include many vendored representations of emojis.
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#84Whenever I peruse emojidex or any other emoji comparison, it's obvious that Apple that sets the emoji and pretty much everyone else copies it.
Apple is usually first to get their designs in to the OS so everyone else sort of has to or they will be the odd ones out. Especially when most users are on iOS, the expectations are set on what ios displays it as.
You only look odd when you override the OS default. Then You’re odd all the time. Even if you ape it, like web Twitter, you’re still odd, because the small differences are even more pronounced.
Most designers may be on iOS, but saying most users are on iOS is objectively not true, except in very niche apps.
It’s cargo cult.
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#85I've never really understood (said like I've spent much time thinking about it!) why wrong-handed scissors are so difficult/impossible to use. We must angle them slightly, sub-consciously, w.r.t. our standing vertical (out of the plane projected forward from our figure)?
I’m surprised there aren’t “left-handed”/“right-handed” emoji modifiers yet for more inclusivity.
I wonder what its like making a proposal to the unicode consortium. I watch a lot of c-span and I assume its like that.
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#86The handedness of the Google scissors seems deducible to me based on the shading, and the author seems to have disregarded the shading so as to incorrectly identify the handedness and therefore draw a nonsensical closed position.
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple is usually first to get their designs in to the OS so everyone else sort of has to or they will be the odd ones out. Especially when most users are on iOS, the expectations are set on what ios displays it as.
You only look odd when you override the OS default. Then You’re odd all the time. Even if you ape it, like web Twitter, you’re still odd, because the small differences are even more pronounced. Most designers may be on iOS, but saying most users are on iOS is objectively not true, except in very niche apps. It’s cargo cult.
Depends on your target market. In places like India, Android absolutely dominates. In countries like the US and Australia, iOS does. Especially among younger users where iOS has almost universal coverage.
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#88Similar posts: - Ants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 - Smiling faces: https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m... - Butterflies: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ - Trains: https://mobile.twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/11925577307096... - Horses: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?l... - Planets: https://mobile.twitter.com/physicsJ…
Also for turtles. This might be the originator of the format? It's the first I was aware of, anyway.
https://poison-liker.tumblr.com/post/153488305349/official-r...
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m surprised there aren’t “left-handed”/“right-handed” emoji modifiers yet for more inclusivity.
I wonder what its like making a proposal to the unicode consortium. I watch a lot of c-span and I assume its like that.
Re: Which emoji scissors close (2020)
#90A rare case where Apple design showed laziness!