Creating Icons
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Glad you like it, and I really wish I'd thought of it. It's one of my favorite images of all time, so I use any excuse - however thin - to repost it. :-D
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ryanb31 wrote:
Exactly. Lighten up.
Oh, droll, very droll.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
How about these[^]? I also like this site[^]. Google came up with this[^]. Some more: Free Buttons[^], Freebits[^]
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
Get some Chinese guy/gal write out the command in Chinese characters. Enclose that inside a square and you have got your button/icon. People used to be literate and so one could type in a command such as 'dir' to view the directory. Then came the illiterates so now you just click on an icon and don't have to know how to read or write. You now want the icons to be a meaningful representation of the command (word or verb) that you want executed. Well, that is what Chinese ideograms are: stylized representations of actual things. If you don't believe me, ask your friendly neighborhood Chinese guy/gal to write out 'home', 'fire', 'turtle'. 'gate', etc., in Chinese characters and see how they are simplified representations of the real things. Does that mean we should all be learning Chinese? Yeah, that seems to be the direction we are heading anyway. Icons are arranged vertically, like Chinese writing whereas normal languages are written left-to-right. (Elephant Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew, etc.) Soon, instead of left-to-right columns, we will have columns to be read top-to-bottom and right-to-left. The conquest of the computer field by the Chinese will then be complete. And you think Silicon Valley is infested by Chinese hardware and software engineers! You ain't seen nothing yet! :laugh: PS. Made this a 'joke' for the humor-impaired univoters though it should have been a 'rant'.
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
We use Axialis Icon Workshop[^] to construct icons[^] using the supplied object packs. As a bonus, it can edit true colour image strips as well, which comes in handy for toolbars etc. I can't recommend this software enough. It's made that little part of my job so much easier and less stressful than it was before.
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
Lots of times I can find suitable icons already built. Check out www.iconarchive.com. There's some really good ones in there. I don't have that much artistic ability myself and have found a number of good ones there.
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IMHO creating good (read consistent, intuitive, pleasing) icons is no easy feat. I've long since given up trying to create icons and instead use IconFinder[^] to identify representative icons and pass them to a designer who will create the icons from scratch. You may be able to use IconFinder's icons directly, depending on their license. /ravi
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We use Axialis Icon Workshop[^] to construct icons[^] using the supplied object packs. As a bonus, it can edit true colour image strips as well, which comes in handy for toolbars etc. I can't recommend this software enough. It's made that little part of my job so much easier and less stressful than it was before.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
RJOberg wrote:
Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices.
Or you could yous Icon Finder[^] to help you with an "inspiration", just to get your brain started.
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
"If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly." A recommendation: for any item where there is no picture found that clearly and instantly conveys what the button does, even to someone who has never seen it before, use text instead or in addition, and push back against anyone who says otherwise. The inexplicable movement to replace all text (instantly comprehensible by any literate person) with goofy little pictures (often comprehensible only with a great deal of thought, and sometimes only by arbitrary convention that one just has to know) has gotten way too far in the world. When it is one of those "arbitrary convention" items and the so-called "convention" extends no further than this one application, it is even worse and counter-productive. How many toolbars in applications you use every day are full of dozens of tiny pictures that nobody ever clicks on, because doing so requires memorizing huge numbers of non-self-evident picture:action relationships? Any button should either have immediately obvious meaning or text (though I don't necessarily object to a picture going along with the text). Otherwise the user doesn't know about half of the functionality, or has to go mouse-over (if lucky enough to have tooltip text) or experimentally click every single button to see what it does. Users expect that they may need specialized domain knowledge to use an application, but they shouldn't also need specialized UI knowledge. Applications that require you to memorize a whole set of non-standard visual lingo just to use them are highly annoying.