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.
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..
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.
The Google "blob" emoji was the peak of emoji design.
Can we get the 3D-rendered emoji team to switch gears and work on making Drive's search function work >5% of queries?
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.<p>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.
> Modern internet culture has steadily moved from mild expressions to drama, hyperbole and overwhelm.<p>rofl
It's also crap...<p>> 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.<p>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...