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Emoji Categories on Pinterest

Relating to my previous post, we might be able to get image organization by picture on a wide scale if Pinterest allowed emoji as category names and search terms.

There would be a large group of people who would use the emoji simply to identify other use of the emoji in the images. Eventually some people would use the emoji for categorization though and use the smiley emoji to tag things that made them happy and so on. 

They don't seem to allow punctuation in the search right now so I can't find examples of people trying to do this themselves with the emoticons/ASCII art.

Image Based Filters

Filtering, aka "faceted search", has long been lists of text labels you select narrow to narrow down results. It's a very mechanical way to look at sets of things and is very rigid in the way that it decides things are or aren't part of the group. Good for picking electrical components, bad for picking wall paper. 

For more creative exploration, the use of images instead of words seems to fit better somehow. In fact you already see some sites experimenting with color swatches instead of words for their filters. I wanted to explore what filtering would be like if it were only images

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