Never before I was a parent did I consider how many straightforwardly useful situations there were for literal uses of the
emoji.
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Replying to @patio11
In your capacity as a shared
regulator in is helpful to share
state in all sorts of excessively detailed ways. The emoji softens the blow.2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @patio11
I sometimes wonder how many product features are "LOL why did they put that in?" for some users and indispensable for others.
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Replying to @patio11
There was a thread here a while back about how a lot of “lol who needs a tool to do X?” objects were for disabled people.
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Replying to @JurieHorneman @jurieongames
Yep. "Illiterate" is a common genre that I'm reasonably good at spotting since I was functionally illiterate older than many.
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Replying to @patio11 @jurieongames
(Meaning, rather, than I sometimes spot affordances made for less-literate-in-UI language users. 140 characters.)
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Replying to @patio11
Ah! That’s different than what I initially thought. Do you have an example?
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Replying to @JurieHorneman @jurieongames
Of the circumstance or the affordance? The circumstance was I immigrated to Japan with, generously, a grade school literacy.
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As for affordances: buttons, iconography, *consistency above all things*, good use of color (確認 is green and 取り消し is red), etc
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