Chinese Mobile UI Trends
QQ's emoticons (the 70-or-so yellow base set plus a few others) are indeed incredible. Somehow, for <i>every single feeling</i> you want to convey at any time of the day, you will find <i>one and exactly one</i> matching icon. It's like they created a perfect bijection. And they did this while keeping the icons perfectly readable on small low-resolution screens, and with animation frames you can count on one hand. I have no idea who the original artists are but they have my eternal respect.<p>The drop in emoticon quality was the second worst thing with going back to Skype (which I have to use because everyone else here in the US does).