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Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by CharlesW »

thunderfork wrote: post #9
IAmBroom wrote: post #7

It's also crap... > The way we use emoji has changed. In the early days, we were literal: You sent a nail polish emoji () because you were, in fact, getting your nails polished. The early days of emojis used unpaired parentheses, colons, and semicolons. It's like claiming int the early days of Apple the company released macOS 10.

I believe you're referring to emotions, which are a separate and distinct concept/term

I believe the point is that emoticons/emoji/kaomoji were never literal, and that it's surprising that anyone whose job is communications-related would say this.

Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by bigyabai »

fnoef wrote: post #12

OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis

Emojis are more of a unicode standard, they can be re-implemented with various themes to suit modern design trends. There's nothing wrong with redesigning your emojis to fit with the rest of your OS like you would with a system typeface.

Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by paularmstrong »

xfalcox wrote: post #3
xd1936 wrote: post #2

Does anyone know _where_ these supposed 4,000 OBJ files are open-sourced? They don't seem to be in the Noto Emoji GitHub repo, nor linked anywhere in the article.

I'm wondering the same! How that article has no links is beyond me.

I also like that the article uses whatever system emoji you have, so everything is just showing apple emoji in text for me. All I see are a few 3D video renders of theirs.

Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by Analemma_ »

bigyabai wrote: post #13
fnoef wrote: post #12

OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis

Emojis are more of a unicode standard, they can be re-implemented with various themes to suit modern design trends. There's nothing wrong with redesigning your emojis to fit with the rest of your OS like you would with a system typeface.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Approximately nobody thought Google’s current emoji family needed a total overhaul, stop breaking our pattern recognition for no reason other than your designers are bored and don’t have enough real work to do.
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