August 2018
Beginner
414 pages
3h 16m
English
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Chapter #33. Emoji are the Most Recognized Icon Set on Earth
If your goal is to deliver interfaces with simple, usable icons that feel immediately familiar and intuitive, then use emoji.
Emoji have been used in Japan since the 1990s but Apple's iOS brought them to the Western world almost by accident — had to support for a deal with Japanese carrier SoftBankOver tim, Western users activatd the international keyboard and use emoji. This culminated in Oxford Dictionaries naming "
" as "word of the year" in 2015.
Put simply, the vast majority of people who use computer systems, smartphones, and tablets will be familiar with emoji.
They have a (relatively) ...