We live in a world of text speak where emoji meanings are as much part of our vernacular as word meanings. Every thought, feeling or emotion you could imagine can probably be conveyed through emojis ...

Andrea Ayres-Deets is the Lead Writer at ooomf, an invite-only network connecting short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Andrea writes about psychology, creativity, and ...

Research into the way Australians use emojis has found that the little illustrations that started out as a gimmick on Japanese phone networks are now a key part of our interpersonal communication. The ...

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

For many people, speaking in emoji is almost as natural as speaking in, well, words. However, less than two decades ago, the collection of symbols was just a blip on the digital horizon. You may be ...

In the digital age, using emoji makes us more effective communicators. We’re better able to express our emotional selves and better able to signal our personality. It stands to reason then that if you ...

THE emoji has been a mainstay of our daily digital conversations for a decade – and millennials don’t know how to communicate without it. As the world celebrates its 7th World Emoji Day this July 17, ...