Translation: someone at Google said "Microsoft has this, why don't we?"
Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
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#72It’s not mentioned in the article, but I’m really disappointed that the backpack emoji was made generic and westernized losing its original meaning. It used to be a randoseru style backpack but was recently changed. Does anyone else care though?
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#73Translation: someone at Google said "Microsoft has this, why don't we?"
I was thinking Apple, these look like the Apple emojis to me.
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#75It's nice they're sharing the 3D model files, and I like they're getting closer to the standard Apple look. But designing them in 3D isn't super novel. It's the Apple approach since iOS 10.2 https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-2-emoji-changelog/
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#76Having read the article, I still don't understand the point of 3D modeling emoji. Even the user interviews didn't mention it, and problems like "what the back of a smiling face looks like" sound entirely self-inflicted. I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms. There are still significant differences between Android and iOS, for example. They recognize how subtle emoji interpretation is, so…
> I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms.
This is a step in that direction. The entire industry has been consolidating around Apple's look. Take a look at the old Google, Samsung and Microsoft versions of Woman dancer for a trip https://emojipedia.org/woman-dancing#designs
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't find it to be AI-generated.
(crying emoji) is a masterclass in modern vocabulary... seemed a bit suspect to me. Maybe people are just sadder
Gemini is so prone to saying masterclass that I have standing instructions for it to never use it, expect literally.
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#78Having read the article, I still don't understand the point of 3D modeling emoji. Even the user interviews didn't mention it, and problems like "what the back of a smiling face looks like" sound entirely self-inflicted. I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms. There are still significant differences between Android and iOS, for example. They recognize how subtle emoji interpretation is, so…
> The only reasonable conclusion is that sender and receiver should see the same pixels
Since switching to iPhone recently, I've been realizing that iMessage users are living in another world, and beginning to understand their emoji choices more. I assumed the double exclamation emoji was just some trend, but it turned out to be one of the preselected emoji for iMessage and I was just oblivious since I didn't use that software. Other notes include the "haha" emoji instead of the "tears of joy" and pink hearts instead of red.
There's no way to standardize this. People communicate in different ways. The whole point of emoji is to be creative. If there's one singular "correct" way to use an emoji then creativity is dead.
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#79I am glad emojis have stayed aways from modern icon designers (or directors?). I did get a little panic looking at 3d version at a glance that are we slowly making them corporate bland too? So far we haven't done that to general ones. Google's own blob emojis are bland though, they will take us there if these were all up to them.
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#80The Google "blob" emoji was the peak of emoji design.
I always found them bland. They are not distinctive enough, just like Google's icons.