LO-08: Communication and Emojis

Person of Interest: Jennifer Daniel

Website: http://httpcolonforwardslashforwardslashwwwdotjenniferdanieldotcom.com/

Jennifer Daniel has extensive work experience. She was a graphic designer for many well-known newspapers like the New York Times. Presently, she works as the creative director for Google and Android. She is also a chairperson for Unicode. She lives in San Francisco and has a formal background in graphic design. She described her profession as converting speech and emotions to visual representations. She believes that communication must evolve over time which is where emojis and animations are headed. I was most interested in talking about how different forms of communication relate to others. For example, her discussion of how texting is more similar to speaking than it is to writing. I was also interested in seeing how humans and computers see information differently so for customizable stickers you must have computers use neural networks to generalize aspects of people, then an artist must create a visualization that is most accepting of differences. She used a lot of humor and visualizations in her talk. Humor always makes talks more entertaining, but I would most like to incorporate her visual display techniques into my own presentations.