emoji, "emoldjis", favicon, emoji era, Interaction design. ‘Fahrenheit 451’. in-meeting emoji reactionsAs the old adage goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” However, these days, perhaps an emoji is worth more.

 

As the old adage goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” However, these days, perhaps an emoji is worth more.

As our devices like to remind us, we spend a huge portion of our lives in digital worlds. Yet like other ubiquitous tools, interfaces are seldom recognized as design.

These works remind us that while the digital realm has different, and often untested, rules of engagement. Interaction design can transform our behaviors—from the way we experience and move our bodies to the ways we conceive space, time, and relationships.

Read an excerpt from the “Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design” exhibition catalogue that traces interactive design in MoMA’s collection, from interfaces and emoji to video games → mo.ma/3XsjwGr

See (and play with) a selection of video games from the #MoMACollection in the exhibition, on view now → mo.ma/neveralone

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[1] Shigetaka Kurita. “Emoji.” 1998–99. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of NTT DOCOMO, Inc. © 2022 NTT DOCOMO [2] Ray Tomlinson. “@.” 1971. The Museum of Modern Art, New York [3] Pentagram, Lisa Strausfeld, Christian Marc Schmidt, Takaaki Okada, Walter Bender, Eben Eliason, One Laptop per Child, Marco Pesenti Gritti, Christopher Blizzard, and Red Hat, Inc. “Sugar interface for the XO Laptop.” 2006–07. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designers. © 2022 Pentagram, UK and USA

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Google is announcing many Workspace updates, but I’m most excited for the emoji

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Google Meet is getting in-meeting emoji reactions and a picture-in-picture mode

Writing: Making Your Mark is now open! From hieroglyphs to emojis, our new exhibition celebrates the act of writing, one of humankind's greatest achievements.

Marvel at the oldest item in our collection, a 3,600-year-old ancient Egyptian limestone monument covered in hieroglyphs. Discover James Joyce’s unique style of notetaking in his collection of notes for Ulysses. Witness the collective power of writing in a 60,000-strong petition against Bengali partition. And be inspired by new takes on typography from world-renowned design studio, Dalton Maag.

Find out more: http://ow.ly/MzsT50sl86e

‘Fahrenheit 451’ Has Fire and Fury, but Little Light

Ray Bradbury’s dystopian warning about mid-20th-century media and conformity gets a muddled HBO update for the emoji era.

半百老人用的 emojis

BBC England

"I need something that shows pain because my back hurts, my knees hurt and I need emojis with glasses" Grandmother Diane Hill designs "emoldjis" to reflect her needs 👴

'Emoldjis': Gran's call for older people's lives to be reflected

BBC.CO.UK

Diane Hill, from Coventry, felt that existing smiling, sleepy and sad faces did not represent the lives and likes of older people.

The 56-year-old compiled her own "emoldjis" for the over 50s.

An artist sketched her ideas which were sent to off to the Unicode Consortium which regulates emoji updates.

University of Chicago Magazine translated 10 UChicago course titles into emoji—can you guess which is which? ‪#‎WorldEmojiDay‬

Sign language | The University of Chicago Magazine

Do you speak emoji?

MAG.UCHICAGO.EDU

Google funks up its favicon

Google has decided to get with the times and refresh its well-worn favicon.
Marissa Mayer wrote on Google's blog that the favicon - the small icon that appears in browsers next to the URL, or in lists of bookmark - has been changed to better suit new web gadgets


A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage.


Wikipedia article "Favicon"

Funk It Up

The mind set to raise the energy in a boring atmosphere.

Person 1: This party is so lame bro.
Person 2: Don't worry bro when i get there I'm gonna Funk It Up.

emoji 

Pronunciation: /ɪˈməʊdʒi/ 

NOUN (plural same or emojis)

A small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication:emoji liven up your text messages with tiny smiley faces

More example sentences

Origin

1990s: Japanese, from e 'picture' + moji 'letter, character'.