alt Hacker NewsDesigning emoji for the way we communicate today
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OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis
The best emoji for the way we communicate today would be to revert the water pistol back to a real gun.
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.
In today's AI times, I find it a little amusing to think about emojis as an automation of the craft of making ascii art. Is a little different since people don't get paid for that, but there was a creative component to it.
Possibly related: https://gifcities.org/search?q=dollar&offset=0&page_size=200
Would love to see a Google Trends-type dashboard based on Google's "Gboard Federated Analytics" data.
I don't think the data at https://www.emojitracker.com/ is as valid or as frequently updated.
Can we please just make emoji bigger onscreen? They're not even em-height most of the time. Most interfaces don't scale the emojis when scaling the text.
There's so much artistry and time & effort put into these, and they end up feeling l ike a yellow smudge behind a crack on a dim screen in my life.
What a slopfest. The floating plague in full swing: https://imgur.com/a/IIRIrMI
I just love the "efety Updates" and Android 1.
cool, meanwhile people will use pixelated pepes instead
oh, are they going to adjust the eggplant emoji to match modern usage? And perhaps the peach emoji as well?
Wasn’t google the one who made flat design popular after we had full 3D and glass aesthetics? Now they want to pretend they “invented” 3D shades emojis again..
> Modern internet culture has steadily moved from mild expressions to drama, hyperbole and overwhelm.
rofl
Can we get the 3D-rendered emoji team to switch gears and work on making Drive's search function work >5% of queries?
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.
Yeah, an AI generated blogpost telling me about human emotion...
ahh can't wait for 3D "pregnant" black disabled """men""" on my android
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 the only reasonable conclusion is that sender and receiver should see the same pixels.