icons
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How To Make An iOS App Icon That Works
I’ve made my fair share of apps, and to me the one question that still bounces around my head is: When taking an app-first approach to designing a product, how should a designer decide on the look and feel of the icon? There are many different icon types I’ve considered, but I wanted to explore…
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How Many Icons On Your Desktop?
There are plenty of ways to keep a desktop. On the one hand, it’s kind of like your default folder, immediately displayed to you on login. It’s a convenient place for those things you need quick, like dozens of shortcuts. On the other hand, it’s a homescreen, a homescreen, and shouldn’t you keep your home…
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iOS 6 Adds Gay And Lesbian Couple Icons
The new version of Apple’s iPhone operating system comes with new emojis, the popular emoticons that are often used in texting and email, especially by young kids and nerdy adults like me. Two of these new pictograms represent gay and lesbian couples for the first time.
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Computer Icons That Don’t Make Sense Anymore
Scott Hanselman is a Microsoft programmer, stand-up comedian and author. And now he is a philosopher of computer iconography. The bane of his existence? It’s the icons with real-world analogues that no longer exist. Here are five of the worst offenders.