Teachers looking for ways to convince their students that math isn’t a boring slog have a convincing new set of visuals: GIF makers are using mathematics to craft hypnotic moving images. Even outside ...

Since Apple released the official emoji keyboard in 2011, communicating using such visuals has become increasingly important in both personal life and business as a way to express emotions and gauge ...

The massive adoption of smartphones is likely contributing to the shift toward visual communication. While the survey commissioned by Tenor found that people are using emojis, stickers and GIFs to ...

In today's digitally-driven world, we all see them and we all use them. They're quick, six-second moving images which encapsulate the concept "a picture is worth 1,000 words" tenfold -- GIFs. "GIFs ...

According to Steve Wilhite, who invented the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) in 1987 for CompuServe, it’s “jif,” like the peanut butter (and like “gym” and “gem” and “Geoff”), not a hard “g” (like ...

The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out in ...

This guide explores how graphics have evolved over the last decade, why they now feel stagnant, and how developers can ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Antony Funnell: I want to start with a clarification. Hello, Antony Funnell here, welcome to Future ...