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Discussion on: Design Your Missing Emoji: What Emoji Do You Need Daily?

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Benoit COUETIL 💫

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).

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Ben Sinclair

Here's a sign on the road near my home:

A road sign telling cyclists to follow markings to go East or West. The marking is the same except for its background colour being red or green

Imagine you couldn't distinguish between red or green?

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Benoit COUETIL 💫 • Edited

I was answering the question what purpose does the little picture serve?.

Indeed, disabled people have less options, and this sign is wrong, RR 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".