{"id":20163,"date":"2018-01-12T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2018-01-12T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:55:45","slug":"former-apple-intern-looks-back-at-designing-first-apple-emoji-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/former-apple-intern-looks-back-at-designing-first-apple-emoji-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Apple Intern Looks Back at Designing First Apple Emoji in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@agzmn\/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee\">Angela Guzman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/01\/11\/2008-emoji-design-retrospective\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=16126940\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@agzmn\/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee\"><p>My first emoji was the engagement ring, and I chose it because it had challenging textures like metal and a faceted gem, tricky to render for a beginner. The metal ring alone took me an entire day. Pretty soon, however, I could do two a day, then three, and so forth. Regardless of how fast I could crank one out, I constantly checked the details: the direction of the woodgrain, how freckles appeared on apples and eggplants, how leaf veins ran on a hibiscus, how leather was stitched on a football, the details were neverending. I tried really hard to capture all this in every pixel, zooming in and zooming out, because every detail mattered. And for three months I stared at hundreds of emoji on my screen. Somewhere in there we also had our first Steve Jobs review, which had created a shared experience of suspense and success when they were approved for launch. And if Steve said it was good to go, I&rsquo;d say lesson in craftsmanship, check.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes our emoji turned out more comical than intended and some have a backstory. For example, Raymond reused his happy poop swirl as the top of the ice cream cone.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Guzman (via Juli Clover, Hacker News): My first emoji was the engagement ring, and I chose it because it had challenging textures like metal and a faceted gem, tricky to render for a beginner. The metal ring alone took me an entire day. Pretty soon, however, I could do two a day, then three, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,257,133,34,295,545,31,30],"class_list":["post-20163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple","tag-emoji","tag-font","tag-graphicdesign","tag-history","tag-icons","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20164,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}