![]() Far from being frivolous or ornamental, they’re extensions of our own humanity and an important communication tool. Because of our associations with work and adulthood, play can at times make some people uncomfortable - even though we’re fundamentally built for it.”īecause being playful or highly expressive doesn’t come easily to everyone, emoji are the perfect little helpers. “Play is vital for things like creative brainstorming, developing and mastering new skills, and team building,” says Meghan, “but we haven’t typically been open to giving play a place at work or in our work tools. She cites Stuart Brown’s wonderful book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, as a particular influence for her. Through primary and secondary research, she focused on the concept of play as a catalyst for tapping into our best work and most honest selves. ![]() To ensure our new designs reflected this, design researcher Meghan Stockdale worked closely with us to rethink graphical expressions of professionalism. Embracing the power of playĮven before the pandemic obscured the lines between work and life, notions of professionalism had been evolving toward emotional honesty and playfulness. We’re also excited to unveil five brand-new emoji that signal our fresh perspective on work, expression, and the spaces in between.Ī video celebrating the diversity of shapes and expressions in our new emoji system. While you’ll see these roll out in product over the coming months, we wanted to share a sneak peek with you in honor of World Emoji Day. We opted for 3D designs over 2D and chose to animate the majority of our emoji. Over 1,800 emoji exist within Microsoft 365, and we’ve been working for the past year to dramatically refresh them by creating a system that is innately Fluent. With emoji, however, a few pixels can telegraph our thoughts and feelings in ways that are fun, clear, and emotionally resonant.Īs the world moves toward hybrid work scenarios that blend in-person with remote, expressive forms of digital communication are more important than ever. Body language, subtle forms of humor, or environmental conditions - while we can see and respond to those cues those in-person, the loss of them in digital contexts impacts our communication greatly. The emoji has steadily evolved alongside us, acting as essential communicators full of life and color. Then the pandemic hit and beyond our heroic essential workers, almost everyone became a remote worker. ![]() Mobile devices proliferated, the gig economy burgeoned, and remote work began to rise. The world has changed quite a bit since ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ became ?♀️.
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