Notion Faces is a highly creative feature launched by Notion, allowing users to easily create unique personalized avatars by freely combining various facial features and accessories. This provides users with a new way to express themselves on the Notion platform and in broader social contexts.
Notion Faces is a new feature launched by Notion for the New Year
Introduction to Notion Faces
Notion Faces is a newly launched feature on the Notion platform, focusing on avatar creation and customization, aimed at meeting users' needs for personalized image representation. Officially referred to as "Notion Masks," Notion Faces is completely free to use and does not require logging into a Notion account, significantly lowering the barrier to entry and making it convenient for users to use anytime.
Notion Faces takes into account users from diverse cultural and identity backgrounds around the world, offering a rich variety of elements to ensure that every user can create an avatar that reflects their unique characteristics.
The cartoon character named "Nosy" from Notion
Additionally, the earlier launched Notion AI introduced a series of expanded features, including access to Google Docs and one-click AI tools. To highlight this new experience, Notion has also introduced a cartoon character named "Nosy." Its design style is quite playful, resembling a mature version of Microsoft's Clippy, enthusiastic about tasting Dirty Martinis and reading The New Yorker comics, exuding a refined sense of humor.
Highlights of Notion Faces
- Diverse Choices: Offers a variety of facial features such as skin tone, eyes, eyebrows, glasses, nose, mouth, hair, and accessories, allowing users to combine countless unique avatar styles based on their preferences and needs.
- Random and Custom Creation: Users can click "🔀" to quickly generate random avatars for inspiration or choose "Create New Avatar" to carefully craft from scratch, catering to different user creation habits and time requirements.
- Personalized Decorations: Supports adding personalized titles, subtitles, and background colors to avatars, further enhancing their uniqueness and expressiveness, making them more aligned with the user's personality and usage scenarios.
- Easy Download and Sharing: Users can easily download their customized avatars (including titles, subtitles, and backgrounds) or just the avatar itself, and share them on social platforms or use them wherever needed.
- Deep Integration with Notion: Users can directly open the Notion app from Notion Faces, quickly set the newly created avatar as their Notion profile picture, achieving seamless connectivity.
- Community Interaction Features: Users can browse avatars created by other Notion users for inspiration and creativity, fostering interaction and communication among users.
User interface of Notion Faces
Applicable Scenarios
- Profile Display: For individual users like Xiao Zhang, using Notion Faces to create an avatar featuring their name and favorite color, setting it as their Notion profile picture to enhance the recognizability and personal charm of their workspace.
- Enhanced Team Interaction: Team member Xiao Li generates fun avatars in the team space to share with colleagues, effectively enlivening the team atmosphere and enhancing team cohesion and closeness among members.
- Source of Design Inspiration: Designer Xiao Wang draws inspiration from the rich avatar elements in Notion Faces to create a series of avatars with different cultural characteristics for design projects, enriching the design resource library.
- Social Media Sharing: Users share their carefully crafted Notion Faces avatars on social media, showcasing personal style and creativity, attracting friends' attention and interaction.
- Educational Support: In educational settings, teachers can guide students to use Notion Faces to create avatars representing themselves for class online platforms, increasing the fun of learning and student participation.
Avatars generated by Notion Faces
Notion Faces Usage Guide
- Open a web browser on your computer or phone and visit faces.notion.com without needing to log into a Notion account.
- Once in the Notion Faces avatar maker page, you can click "🔀" to generate a random avatar, or select "Create New Avatar" to start creating independently.
- Follow the on-screen prompts to select facial features such as skin tone, eyes, eyebrows, glasses, nose, mouth, hair, and accessories for personalized avatar design.
- Once satisfied with the avatar design, click the "Save" button at the top of the page. You can choose to add a title, subtitle, and background color, then click "Continue"; if you do not need to add this information, click "Skip".
- Depending on your needs, click the "Download" button to download the customized avatar (including title, description, and background) or just download the avatar itself.
- If you want to use the avatar as your Notion profile picture, click "Settings" in the Notion app sidebar, select "My Account", then click "Add Photo" to upload the avatar, and finally click "Open" to complete the setup.
Download different avatars as needed
Conclusion
Notion Faces, with its rich features and convenient operations, offers users a unique avatar creation experience. Whether individual users are pursuing personalized expression, enhancing interaction in team collaboration, or designers seeking inspiration, it plays an important role.
Everyone is encouraged to try using Notion Faces to create their own unique avatars and share their experiences and creativity.