Week 4: Design Drafts – First Review
- angelique perez
- Oct 8, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 10, 2024
After a discussion last class, I decided to ditch the book idea and go in a different direction. My thesis will explore how emojis impact digital communication through a series of infographics. The goal is to make data about emojis more understandable and engaging for people, showing how something that seems so small can actually play a big role in how we interact. I'll be contributing visualizations of this data through motion pieces and static posters, both of which will present the same information in different formats. The range of topics will cover an introduction to emojis, their frequency and popularity, how they’re interpreted (including common misunderstandings), usage across different countries, and more personal applications like in relationships.
Pitch: I will be making infographics to show the widespread effects that emojis have on communication.
Goal: The goal of this is to make the data more palatable/understandable for people.
Interesting: It's interesting how something seemingly minuscule can largely affect communication as a whole.
What do you contribute? I will contribute visualization of the data. Motion pieces as well as posters with the same information.
Range: Introductory, emoji frequency/popularity, interpretations of emoji (common misunderstandings), usage by country/ etc., personal use cases like relationships and more.
Resources / Research
Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else! info!
That is why we have developed OpenMoji as the first open source and independent emoji
system to date. When designing the OpenMoji system, we have developed visual guidelines
that are not linked to a specific branding. In addition, our goal was to design emojis that
integrate well in combination with text.
Research for the infographics
is a universal standard that assigns codes to characters, symbols, and emojis. These will be used throughout the project to
92% of the world’s online population use emoji, these are the most frequently used from 2021.
Varying Interpretations of Emoji For the upper graphic, the top 3 are the ones most confusing for people to understand, the bottom 3 are the most straightforward for people to understand. For the lower graphic, different platforms display the same emoji differently, which leads to conversational misunderstandings. The ones with the bigger box are understood very differently across platforms. The smaller boxes look similar on different platforms, so they are more universally understood.
This is a data set that covers 3.88 million active users from 212 countries and regions and their 427 a million messages ranging from September 1 to September 30, 2015.The one on top is the most popular, dependent on country. The one on the lower half is usage difference by countries.
According to Nancy Briton and Judith Hall, when it comes to sending, receiving, and interpreting nonverbal cues during the conversation, women are better than men.Some researches show that women are more often to use emoji rather than men (Chen, Lu, Ai, Li, Mei, & Liu, 2018). It is also added that compared to men, women tend to use more than one emoji.
This data is from an article covering how an emoji can become specialized to a relationship / repurposing the emoji. To the right is a percentage breakdown of the recipients of the repurposed emojis.
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