Chase AdamsChase Adams
AboutContentPromptsPrototypesNewsletter

Personal Emoji & GIF Usage Guide

Essays and updates on product, engineering, and AI by Chase Adams.

2 minute read

This is a brief guide to how I use Emoji and GIF and a few contextual notes about what Emoji I use, when I use them and what they mean to me.

Principles

  • Unambiguous - use emoji and GIFs that may often have multiple meanings
  • Enhancement - only use Emoji as an enhancement to an existing message

Norms

  • GIF - I generally choose Adventure Time, Bluey or Muppets / non-human cartoon gifs

When I use Emoji

  • reacting to a message in Slack or Discord
  • enhancing an existing message for Twitter
  • responding to a text where reactions are limited but words aren't necessary

How I Use Emoji

My most used public messaging Emoji:

  • 🚀 - when I'm excited about something that's happening (shipping software or forward movement in work/side projects)
  • ✨ - when I'm in awe of something someone has done or grateful for something that's happened/happening
  • 🌱 - when someone (including myself) has a moment of self reflection or personal growth

My most used private (Slack/Messages) Emoji:

  • ✅ - I have done something about this
  • 👀 - I am looking into this (also, acknowledgement that I've seen something)
  • 🦺 - I believe this is safe to try

My most used Emoji for Pull Request (code) reviews:

  • ℹ️ - I am giving you context for this change
  • ❓ / ❔ - I am asking an exploratory question based on my experience
  • 📌 - I'm requesting this be changed
  • ‼️ - I believe this could be problematic, can we discuss

Other Emoji I use:

  • 🎉 - when I'm excited about something personal
  • 💙 - when I've had a good moment with a peer
  • 💜 - when someone has noticed a moment of personal growth for me

Emoji I try to avoid:

  • most people faces and hand symbols
  • 🔥 - ambiguous
First Cohort
No Coding Experience Required

Build Your Website with AI—No Code Required

Learn to create and deploy professional websites using ChatGPT and Claude. Go from complete beginner to confident website builder.

Start Building Today

Post Details

Published
Feb 1, 2022
Share
ChatGPT

Latest Posts

5 Years of Startup Learnings At Murmur Labs

5 Years of Startup Learnings At Murmur Labs

Reflections on 5 years at Murmur Labs. What we built, what worked, what didn't, and how I'd approach starting something new.

AboutAI Workflow SpecContentStacksNewsletterPromptsRSS