Hey, Microsoft, the last things we need are animated emoji in Teams - mccraryhisamoss

We've simply dealt with too many damned distractions over the past year. Politics. Global climate change. Kids pestering you for a snack. And just two days after Microsoft tells America that the profound principle of Windows 11 is "calm,"another Microsoft designer tells us that Microsoft is going to spray spinning, twirling, alive emoji altogether over Windows and Teams.

I hateful, what the heck, people? Does Microsoft even pay tending to what its own employees are doing?

Microsoft's Claire Anderson, the "emojiologist" (suspire) for Microsoft, outlines the newfangled emoji plan in a blog post today. Thomas More than 1,800 new emoji exist within the Microsoft ecosystem, and the company is redesigning each with "uplifting and inspiring" designs, and "bright, saturated colors and daredevil forms." Microsoft even sandbagged us all, promising that they would replace the "paper clip" icon with Clippy if we liked the company's tweet. (Fit played.) Microsoft says that the new emoji are coming to Flipgrid today, and that's fine. But they're arriving happening Teams and Windows this holiday season, and I'm in truth not okay thereupon.

"We opted for 3D designs over 2D and chose to animate the majority of our emoji," Anderson writes. (Vehemence added.) And here we go.

I'll be candid: I'm a jaded nonagenarian white dude WHO refuses to mentally admit that he's staring down middle get on. If you've seen my Twitter feed, though, you know I actually favor dim GIFs and emoji and memes as very much like I do blunt, honest comment. I am reasonably amusive at parties.

But there's a place for fun, and a place to get things done. Teams doesn't know which place it is. Happening peerless turn over, Teams is a business tool that Microsoft is bunding with Windows and Microsoft 365, and ambitious Fortune 500 companies to adopt. Happening the other mitt, it's apparently a fun, edgy little program that Microsoft is pushing into the Windows 11 taskbar and  encouraging classrooms to adopt American Samoa a way for students to connect.

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Sending unwanted, unhoped, animated emoji was the intact point of Microsoft's My People app, which died several years ago. Learn from history, guys.

Conflicted Microsoft messaging

Til now, Microsoft has generally secondhand the oral communicatio that we associate with job. If you've seen his presentations, you know that Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay will launch a new Airfoil by talking some focus, fall, and his kids.

And just two years ago, Microsoft's design team wrote about how we already have too more blamed distractions therein globe: "This has been unrivaled of our most people-driven releases always and a guiding design rule was based on a key theme surfaced during research: calm technology that makes our lives genuinely break," Microsoft's design squad wrote about Windows 11. "Calmness is so much needed in today's existence, and it tends to hinge on our ability to feel in control, at ease, and trustful."

But animated emoji are not calm. They're distracting, especially in a Teams app that Microsoft encourages us to leave open and in focus Eastern Samoa a communication theory tool. An animated emoji leave use the cookie-cutter visual tricks to attract the eye as ads and notifications, and we simply don't need more.  Remember My People? Pop up an animated emoji accidentally on the taskbar was theintegral spot of the app, and Microsoft killed it off long ago.

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You posterior use the Feedback Hub (character "Feedback Hub" into the Windows search bar) to complain about lively emoji and other things.

I've asked Microsoft whether there will be a way out—ideally, a way to bi the animations sour. I'm not the Grinch that's going to recite Microsoft that they arse't redesign their UI, or emoji, Oregon other parts of their OS. But I am going to tell that I think a crew of recently moving emoji are the last thing we need suitable at once, and I would boost you to evidence Microsoft the synoptic.

It could be worse: Microsoft could have added emoji with sounds attached. Buckeye State hold back.

Updated at 12:10 PM to note Facebook's own "improvement" to emoji.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/394880/hey-microsoft-the-last-things-we-need-are-animated-emoji.html

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