Designing Icons for the Web
With James Williamson
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Duration: 2h 50m
Skill level: Intermediate
Released: 8/27/2015
Course details
Learn techniques and best practices for designing smart, visually interesting web icons in any software, in this guide with senior author James Williamson. First, find out what makes icons most effective and how to plan your design right from the start. Then review the best practices for brainstorming, sketching your ideas, and finding the right visual metaphors. James shows how to build your designs at high resolutions and create variations that will work at smaller sizes. Finally, learn how to export your work to multiple file types, and optimize SVGs, one of the most popular formats for icons.
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Meet the instructor
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Nel Duarte-Vargas
Nel Duarte-Vargas
Freelance Graphic Designer | Bachelor's degree of Arts - Advertising, Adobe Suite, Motion Graphics
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Mario Vivanco
Mario Vivanco
Voiceover for narration, announcing or dubbing to Latin American neutral standard spanish. Characters for animations, audiobooks, documentaries…
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