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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 warumdarum »

why_at wrote: post #83
BoppreH wrote: post #23

Having 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…

>problems like "what the back of a smiling face looks like" sound entirely self-inflicted. I think this is the funniest sentence I've ever read on Hackernews. What are we doing with our lives?

Always look on the smile side of janus

Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by inigyou »

goodmythical wrote: post #98
inigyou wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, because I don't care about emojis. You care about emojis, so you should try it.

The problem is that it is not enabled by the mediums we use to communicate. and are copied and pasted from emojicopy.com and getemoji.com respectively. They appear differently on each website, and yet identical here when copied and pasted. It is not possible for me (or anyone at this time) to comment with two different graphical representations of the same emoji in a comment on this site. edit: apparently HN is a no…

I can't comment with more than two graphical representations of the letter Q either. All I get is Q and Q - I can't make HN display a cursive Q.

Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by cosmicriver »

xg15 wrote: post #85
ollin wrote: post #46

This article seems fairly uninformative since, as others have pointed out, there's no visualization or comparison of the full emoji set and no link to see it. They just show a few example images and have some (AI-enhanced?) prose that doesn't actually say very much. This article https://9to5google.com/2026/05/12/android-17-emoji-redesign/ has a larger (2d image) comparison grid with several dozen examples and an A/B…

Thanks! That other link was much more informative. I think it's a bit annoying that for some emoji, they still change the content and not just the style. It's not as bad as the "gun/watergun controversy", but I think especially that cat emoji could lead to messages being interpreted differently, depending which version of the emoji you see. The corporate link in the OP was gushing endlessly about the sophisticated wa…

Cat smiling and cat smirking are two separate emoji. Why the article depicted them as before-and-after is a mystery.

Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by dTal »

nibbleyou wrote: post #5
andrepd wrote: post #4

Yeah, an AI generated blogpost telling me about human emotion...

I didn't find it to be AI-generated.

That's kind of terrifying. It's extremely obvious. Overwrought "punchy" style and riddled with not-x-but-x chatgpt-isms (all the LLMs have that now):

"We don't just "laugh" anymore. We collapse, or internally scream".

"They need a pulse and a soul — not the cold precision of industrial CAD models"

It's everywhere now and no one seems to notice. Sometimes I feel like the guy in They Live (1988) with the glasses.

Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

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Post by KetoManx64 »

Planktonne wrote: post #96

This article represents such a poverty of imagination and culture that I find it genuinely concerning. What is wrong with the people behind this? They've correctly identified that a lot of emoji use is figurative, but then are trying to contribute to that by making them 3D. Here is a symbol you use meaningfully, we made it different to help. It's just so wrong-headed, like responding to the news of someone's beloved…

Classic case of "The company is paying me and I don't have any real work to do so let's create some so I don't actually have to do anything actually useful"
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