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I was a show show of Los Archives.

From Futura media and PRX, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Ino Hosa. Today, Angela Guzman explains her experience co-designing the first apple

emojies, her inspirations and her process.

Instead of sending a text message to express how you feel, you might instead decide to

hit one of those cute little icons on your phone.

And depending on your mood, you could choose from all kinds of

emojies, a suspicious smiley face with a monocle,

a hand getting a manicure, or a solo red boxing glove.

One of my favorites.

But did you know that the first set of emojies for apple products were drafted by a Colombian American woman?

Angel Agusman started as an intern at Apple in 2008 while she was still in college.

And her first project was to develop emojies from their original Japanese versions into something new.

Now over 10 years later, those little images have become, well, for lack of a better word, iconic.

Here's Angela telling her story. When I moved from Bogota to Miami, I did not speak a word of English. I remember entering my classroom full of

kids and not being able to connect with anyone it was very frustrating. So what I ended up doing was actually relying on my drawing skills that I

developed before moving and kind of communicating with my teachers and my classmates through pictures and I noticed

immediately the power that an image can have on someone even though you don't speak the same

language. I've always relied on that feeling and that experience of trying to communicate with people

in a really natural and simple way.

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