From the moment crude basic symbols like a line-art folder symbol become detailed real-life representations (I am glaring at you, NeXTstep-era Steve), this was probably coming. I long for the days of symbols that had no specific race, color, sex, gender or even species, and we all used the same ones.Īt a UX level, this is about images vs icons, I suppose. I have the same reservations about what I guess are supposed to be male/female emoji.
Google hangouts tableflip skin#
If now we're supposed to signal the color of our skin each and every time we say "I'm flying now, talk later", I am not sure how that helps? It's that, I worry that if you embrace the new color-specific emojis, it becomes impossible to have any conversations without. It's the idea of adding color to every message, and even moreso, the idea of even trying to make them real-life accurate that is foolhardy, I think. (Poorly, perhaps.) It's not the particular colors. And I knew it might bring up some bad feelings to suggest that making emoji more like real people (of any specific color) has downsides, which is why I tried to explain.
It's simply not possible to remove race from every conversation. If yellow wasn't neutral enough, they should have made them all gray. I much prefered the higher level, neutral, human beings are all the same system, though. You might argue this is good for race relations, maybe, if you think every conversation should be about race. When texting, I'm now always considering "What color should I consider myself or this person?" when before I wasn't thinking about color at all, just the idea of a person. More broadly, and probably controversially, I'm really not a fan of this "make different skin color versions of each human emoji" either, which I think Apple started? I've no doubt it's a well-intentioned idea, but I think it goes off the rails in the wrong direction. It's fine if you're trying to be cute 24/7, I suppose.
Everytime I use a facial-expression emoji in Google I feel compelled to amend or retract, because that's NOT what I meant. They seem to change my original meaning into something cruder. Then when I fire up Hangouts on my desktop and see the messages I sent, the gumdrop emojis kinda fill me with horror. Round faces with flat colors would have been fine these? No. I'm not sure I'm ready for gradients like that to become the next big thing. They don't say anything about other changes, but is this the first face of what's to come?
Google hangouts tableflip android#
Android O is still, as far as I can tell, on Material and its only gradient usage is for stuff like shadows. It matches precisely nothing of Android's current design sensibilities. The thing that fascinates me about this, because of that, is that gradient. I'm sure they aren't to everybody's taste, but I felt like they fit very well with Android as a whole. They call them the worst emoji on the planet without citing anything about whether this is in fact a commonly-held belief. Not only have I seen a lot of people defending them since this was announced, I'm baffled because I'm a longtime Android user and I've never once heard anybody complain about the existing ones, like, while I was actually chatting with them.
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