## Bringing Emoji into the Next Era of Expression The unexpected design challenges of translating 2D emoji into open-source 3D In a live chat, ending a sentence with a period reads like an act of aggression. That’s just the emotional tax of talking through glass. When conversation happens in milliseconds, brevity feels cold — and plain text simply cannot carry the warmth that rolling on the floor laughing or an arched eyebrow can. For years, emoji have done the emotional heavy lifting our keyboards couldn’t. But the way we talk online doesn’t look like it did a decade ago, and neither should…