Tag: Icon

Icon Usability: When and How to Evaluate Digital Icons

Summary:  Effective icons depend on recognizability and interpretation. Evaluate them with methods appropriate for your specific research questions Icon Usability Effective icons can increase usability by helping users understand and interpret available functionality. However, when poorly implemented, they harm usability and introduce confusion. In Digital Icons That Work, I emphasize the importance of two variables… Continue reading Icon Usability: When and How to Evaluate Digital Icons

How to Use AI Text to Vector in Illustrator

In today’s Illustrator tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Illustrator’s text-to-vector generator. We will discover the ease of creating four editable AI graphics: a scene, icon, pattern, and subject, based on simple text prompts. It’s mind-blowing. Let’s go! What Is Illustrator’s Text-to-Vector Generator? Adobe Illustrator has a new and innovative tool that allows designers to… Continue reading How to Use AI Text to Vector in Illustrator

We Tested the Latest Figma Updates (Little Big Updates April 2023)

There are 32 new mind-blowing Figma updates which will change the way you work. I’m going to show you 20 of the most recent updates related to text, images, components and libraries, prototypes, and quality of life! For example, now you can resize images and they’ll snap to the perfect aspect ratio. You can take… Continue reading We Tested the Latest Figma Updates (Little Big Updates April 2023)

Top 6 New Features from the Affinity Version 2.0 Announcement

Affinity Version 2 is here, and there are so many amazing new features in Affinity to get excited about. From iPad offerings to new Affinity tools, there’s a ton to explore. Here are our top 6 new features from the Affinity Version 2 announcement for you to check out.  Original Stock Photography by DC_Studio on… Continue reading Top 6 New Features from the Affinity Version 2.0 Announcement

Remove the Search Input Clear(x) Icon

I really appreciate the amount of different <input> elements we’ve received over the past decade. These elements don’t just bring a new semantic advantage, but also provide UI helpers, which in many cases are useful. In a recent case, I found a UI element not useful: the x (clear) icon in <input type=”search” /> elements.… Continue reading Remove the Search Input Clear(x) Icon

What is a Multipurpose WordPress Theme?

It can be overwhelming for webmasters who have decided to go ahead with WordPress but are wondering which WordPress theme will be the right fit for their website. There are countless free and paid options when it comes to WordPress themes and just about every modern theme looks pretty good. So how do you choose… Continue reading What is a Multipurpose WordPress Theme?

Grab This Month’s (June) FREE WordPress Resume Theme

This is a beautiful one page parallax WordPress Theme for Resume, vCard, CV application, freelancer for an impressive online resume. Resume WordPress Theme comes with 4 Home Variations, 3 navigation styles, customisable backgrounds (colors, images or patterns). You feel free when creating your website with the advanced styling customization features. You can change navigation styles,… Continue reading Grab This Month’s (June) FREE WordPress Resume Theme

20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins

There are many rivals to Photoshop. Sketch app, Acorn, Gimp, Autodesk Pixlr, PaintShop Pro and others. I can honestly say that all of these tools are really nice and good. But it’s really hard to compare with the Photoshop. The interface of the tools I’ve mentioned before is really nice, it’s easier to use it,… Continue reading 20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins

Freebie: Universal Themes Vector Icon Set (100 Icons, SVG)

There are 100 vector icons included in the set, all designed with web design in mind, and they come in SVG format, so you can edit, scale and change the color until your heart is content. Scroll down for the preview and for the download button. Free Universal Themes Icon Set Preview [sociallocker]100-Universal-themes-icons[/sociallocker]

Free 50 Icon Sets

The free icon sets are available in many different formats, with SVGs, as mentioned above, heavily represented, but there are also many sets in PSD, AI, EPS and Sketch formats. All of the sets are free to download, and most will allow you to use them in both your personal and commercial projects, but please… Continue reading Free 50 Icon Sets

Free Download : Minimalistic Icon Set

Today’s free design resource minimalistic icon set is designed and released as a freebie by Matt Cooper. Minimalistic Icons are a clean, scalable and editable icon set. They are free for commercial and personal use. The package includes the icon set in Ai, SVG and PNG format. In there is also the license agreement. The… Continue reading Free Download : Minimalistic Icon Set

Draw a Delicious Ice Cream Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will learn how to Draw a Delicious Ice Cream Icon in Photoshop. We will be using the built-in vector shapes in Photoshop to achieve this outcome. Have a try! This is an intermediate to advanced level Photoshop tutorial. Final Result Preview Step 1: Preparing Canvas We will start by making a new… Continue reading Draw a Delicious Ice Cream Icon in Photoshop

22 Circular Icon Designs for Websites and User Interfaces

Various styles have been adapted over recent years pertaining to icon design. Websites and mobile apps utilize their fair share of icons to convey a much clearer meaning in regards to a user interface. Those with perspicacity recognise the importance of symbolic pictograms. But how do you decide on a theme among the many various… Continue reading 22 Circular Icon Designs for Websites and User Interfaces

Free Material Design GUI Templates & Icon Sets

Material Design is an innovative visual language that has been designed to unify the user experience of all of their products across all devices, and has been built on the principles of successful design combined with technology. So far you may have experienced the beautifully simple aesthetics of Material Design via Google’s Gmail, Inbox and… Continue reading Free Material Design GUI Templates & Icon Sets

Create Free and Trendy Icon Sets with FreeIconMaker

While designing a website or a web application, you can’t deny the importance of web design tools that help to simplify your tasks and complete your project on time. FreeIconMaker.com is the first free online icon maker that allows you to create your own templates and share them with others. In this article we will… Continue reading Create Free and Trendy Icon Sets with FreeIconMaker

38 Absolute Best Tutorials for Learning Icon Design

Simple glyphs and icons communicate a graphical representation for interfaces, branding, and content. Icon design ranges from simple line icons to detailed works of artistic beauty. Every designer has to start somewhere and nobody claims the process will be easy – but it is very rewarding. This gallery focuses on 38 icon design tutorials geared… Continue reading 38 Absolute Best Tutorials for Learning Icon Design

Abandon Skeuomorphism with these 30 Free Icon Sets in Flat Design

The modern way of emphasizing cleanliness, sharpness and objectivity in your designs is by trying to avoid all lavish stylistic choices such as textures, fake feeling of 3d dimension, illusory decorations, shiny/glossy effects and giving the flat style a shot. Being here not just since yesterday, it certainly becomes obvious that this trend not only… Continue reading Abandon Skeuomorphism with these 30 Free Icon Sets in Flat Design

Free Download : 8 Line Icon Sets

Today free resource comes from Jonas Nullens. 
This set can become a powerful tool for any designer. Huge pack of 280 vector line icons presented in 8 categories and will be useful for many purposes.The package is presented in 8 EPS files. The set contains Vehicle icons,Marine icons,Food icons,Beverage icons,Weather icons,Space icons,Everyday icons and UI… Continue reading Free Download : 8 Line Icon Sets

Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design

Aside from regular web & graphics design, the process of designing icons is vast and complex. Iconography can be created with a sketch or from a blank document in digital software. Digital icons can be created using either pixels or vectors. There are many options and the outcome is heavily reliant on the medium, such… Continue reading Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design

15 New & Free Super Handy Icon Sets

Icons are a requirement for any web-related project or just application project. Creating your own custom icons for each project is rarely practical as it’s so time-consuming. On the other hand, finding those hidden treasures in a pool of tens of thousands of icon packs also takes time especially if we are talking about free… Continue reading 15 New & Free Super Handy Icon Sets

20 More Sets of Free Icon Fonts

Icon fonts do have their pitfalls and there are certain things you should consider before using them. To ensure that your icons always load and have reliable fallbacks for browsers that don’t support @fontface, you should take a look at the guidelines set-out by the Filament Group, Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts. And just like they… Continue reading 20 More Sets of Free Icon Fonts

Captain Icon: Fantastic Free Set of 350+ Flat Icons in Many Formats

Mario Del Valle from Valladolid in sunny Spain simply loves to create. In his own words, he was passionate about drawing since he was a child. Lately he also became eager to share. He sat down in front of his digitizer and started to come up with ideas for a huge free icon set. Lots… Continue reading Captain Icon: Fantastic Free Set of 350+ Flat Icons in Many Formats

Roundup of the Best Free Icon Fonts for Web Design

Icon fonts are extremely useful resources for web designers. There’s so many benefits to using a icon webfont over traditional image sprites, such as the ability to have the icon infinitely scale and retain perfect quality; easily change the colour of the icon artwork using CSS; and have a whole library of glyphs available within… Continue reading Roundup of the Best Free Icon Fonts for Web Design