Have you ever wished for an emoji to perfectly capture something you were trying to convey. If you had the chance to create an emoji that doesn't exist yet but is essential to your everyday life, what would it be? Whether it's a unique expression, a symbol, or a gesture, tell us more about your missing emoji! πππ¨βπ€·ββοΈ
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I think the premise is wrong: you can't have an emoji that captures something perfectly because of cultural differences.
There's the issue of accessibility as well. I struggle with emoji, and where possible turn them off so I can see the text description instead. The problem then is that, if a text description is adequate, then what purpose does the little picture serve?
For the exact same reason that you put green/red colors on supervision dashboards instead of "OK", "KO" labels : it gives information that is, at the same time, taking less space and faster to understand (once you are used to).
Here's a sign on the road near my home:
Imagine you couldn't distinguish between red or green?
I was answering the question
what purpose does the little picture serve?
.Indeed, disabled people have less options, and this sign is wrong,
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does not convey any useful information.If your new question is
how do we make everyone understand the information behind emojis
, an automatic translation for them would be handy. I bet that it is what you mean by "turn them off".It's not so much an emoji I'm missing, but a unicode modifier set: Rotation and mirroring. Something as simple as having arrows as arrow+direction rather than specific codepoints. Or, in my case, a shorthand for "side note", i.e. musical note+rotate 90 clockwise.
Oh pinging @cassidoo
MILD PANIC
twitter.com/cassidoo/status/112906...?
+1 for mild panic. Also lolsob
Mild panic needs to be an official Emoji!
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An emoji drinking beer while programming would be nice πΊβπͺ
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