People often ask us how emoji are created and how they get into our phones. As a designer working on Android, one of the things I strive for, is to give users the best text experiences, which of course includes emoji. Given our direct involvement in emoji at Google, I thought we’d share this process and tell you more about why we chose to focus on women in professions as a concrete example.
With the launch of Pixel, the first phone running Android 7.1, Google are adding 63 new emoji with a focus on gender empowerment and fair gender representation. I am very proud of these new emoji, in part because I had a hand in making them a reality, and also because they sparked meaningful discussion and spurred a new way of thinking about the representation of humans in emoji form.
Professional elements and props.
Original Medical Professional and Farmer.
built a limited system of representation.
