Animal Emoji Open-Source Decision Maker

Status: Making the cards to go with the dice!

What is this?

• A quick 2-hour project that’s a riff off of tarot/magic eight ball/Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
• A 12-sided die with animal emojis for which the user can freely design their own interpretations, to promote new decision-making pathways.

Interpretation document (open-source)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r2LvvuczjcX4dKFfswt9NpFsR6X6yMWsq2tOOVUtDOA/edit?usp=sharing

Notes on design choices

• Chose esthetically pleasing emojis (from the Apple set)
• Avoided domesticated animals because they may have more preconceived associations
• Chose animals that have complementary/opposite associations
• Chose D12 instead of D20 because I’m unsure of available surface area (bleed is already quite large with D12)
• Chose animals that have more Rickshaw associations like dragon, fox, etc.
• Chose koala and bear since they are my favorite animals
• Avoided animals I don’t like such as mosquito
• Leaned towards animals that are surprisingly included in emoji sets but not frequently used, like orangutan over monkey
• Yuhong picked the chick, fish, and crab