Icon Design

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How I Design Custom Icons

I often get asked about my process both by clients and designers. Like a magician, people want to know how the illusion is performed. Unlike a magician, I have no problem revealing…

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Designing Adaptive Icons

Android O introduces a new app icon format: adaptive icons. Adaptive icons can make devices more coherent by unifying the shape of all app icons and opening the door to interesting visual…

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Intro to Icons – A Free Online Video Course

Learn the fundamentals of icon design in 1 hour. "Intro to Icons" is an online course with 20 fast–paced videos by Matt D. Smith. Join the MDS email list and get it…

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bjango.com

Vector Icon Speed Runs

It’s common to have to draw the same kinds of icons over and over — many different apps and website use similar glyphs, but each instance typically needs to be tweaked for…

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My Mac App Icon Design Workflow

My favourite Mac app icons are simple enough to be easily read in the Dock, yet they contain interesting details when viewed up close. They have large vibrant areas of colour, yet…

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jotform.com

Our Icon Workflow

The story of how we arrived at our workflow for icons with React and SVG Symbols over Icon Fonts. Icon Fonts vs. SVG Icons used to be a very hot topic a…

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Etsy’s Evolving Icon System

When an interface is made entirely of text, the amount of time and effort it takes to read and evaluate every word increases to the point of cognitive overload. Icons offer a…

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365cons.com

365cons – A Daily Icon Diary by Amy Devereux

Hey, I’m Amy, a visual designer in Seattle! 365cons is a side project that came about after continuously crushing on the work of great iconographers and wishing my own abilities paralleled. It's…

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toptal.com

The Super Simple Guide to Iconography

On average, how long does it take you to design a custom icon? A couple minutes? Ten minutes? Longer? What if we showed you how to make 10 great icons in less…

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10 Essential Tips for User Interface Icons

When a pixel-perfect icon set is used well in an app or on a website, it can help guide users through the product, add a pleasing aesthetic to the overall design, and…

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iconutopia.com

Free Icon Design Guide

Want to create your first icon set, but have no idea where to start? Or maybe you just want to earn some money on the side by selling stock icons? Or do…

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Icon Design with Michael Flarup

Spend an hour talking about what I'm currently up to and demoing some resources from applypixels.com. We remake the AdobeMAX app icon on stage and cover areas like sketching, designer perfectionism and…

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Meg Robichaud’s Icons on Figma

Meg is an incredible illustrator currently working at Shopify. She's done some of the most detailed, complex work in modern product illustration and does it with a remarkable sense of style. Iconic…

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Redesigning the Spotify Icon Suite

This week we updated our Spotify icon suite. It was a four month process of creating and implementing six hundred individually crafted icons that had to look and function well across all…

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iconutopia.com

The Key to Success Is Deliberate Practice

It is no secret that to get better at something, you have to practice. A lot. It, among other things, applies to iconography and design in general. Have you ever heard of…

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Ryan Putnam’s Icons on Figma

Ryan Putnam is one of the most prominent illustrators working in tech today. He's the #4 most popular illustrator on Dribbble and he's done incredible work for brands like Dropbox and Operator…

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