List: Icon Design | Curated by Helena Zhang

Jan 22, 2025
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Icon DesignTutorials, case studies, history, and inspiration
Josh Rose
Drawing From The PastA Deeper Look at PyeongChang’s Olympic Pictograms
Feb 7, 2018
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Feb 7, 2018
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Helena Zhang
Best new icons of 2024Plus: icon news from the year
Dec 29, 2024
Dec 29, 2024
Edward Sanchez
The art and psychology of icons
Nov 12, 2024
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Nov 12, 2024
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Helena Zhang
Best new icons of 202310 selects from the community — plus: icon news
Jan 5, 2024
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Jan 5, 2024
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Design Bridges
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Slava Shestopalov 🇺🇦
Designing tidy and balanced interface iconsCreating icons for user interfaces. A continuation of the article on optical effects
Mar 9, 2018
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Mar 9, 2018
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UX Collective
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Ryan Quintal
Creating glyphs: a product design skill recipeCreating glyphs is, for me, one of the most joyful activities of Product Design. The activity distills so much of the craft into a tight…
Nov 9, 2022
Nov 9, 2022
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UX Collective
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Neel Dozome
Margaret Calvert’s radical road signsThe historical context that influenced the United Kingdom’s beautifully eccentric road signs
Dec 6, 2023
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Dec 6, 2023
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Thinking Design
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Adobe Design
How to design effective icons, Part 1Create a cohesive visual language that’s beautiful and meaningful
Mar 13, 2023
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Mar 13, 2023
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Microsoft Design
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Microsoft Design
What does an icon designer do?Meet Jason Custer, an icon designer on the Fluent Design System team
Jul 27, 2023
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Jul 27, 2023
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John Lewis Design
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Bradley Nicholls
How we created a joyfully bolder icon systemAs part of creating a new design system, one of our major tasks was to breathe some new life into our existing iconography, by pulling them…
Jul 5, 2023
Jul 5, 2023
Helena Zhang
Phosphor Icons is live!A flexible icon family in 6 weights
Oct 13, 2020
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Oct 13, 2020
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UX Collective
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Helena Zhang
Pixel-snapping in icon designWe all want our designs to display sharp on all platforms, for all our users. To achieve this goal for digital icons, a best practice has…
Jun 30, 2020
Jun 30, 2020
Helena Zhang
3 Classic Icon FamiliesAnd why they matter
Jun 1, 2020
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Jun 1, 2020
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UX Collective
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Helena Zhang
Foundations of iconographyDefinition, purpose, and benefits through examples
Apr 30, 2020
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Apr 30, 2020
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Helena Zhang
Icon Grids & Keylines DemystifiedPurpose, anatomy, and in-depth examples
Mar 16, 2020
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Mar 16, 2020
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Helena Zhang
5 Ways to Create a Settings IconLearn to use a wide array of Illustrator features through this exercise
Feb 12, 2020
Feb 12, 2020
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UX Collective
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Helena Zhang
7 Principles of Icon DesignCreating a high-quality icon family requires a thoughtful approach, a trained eye, and a lot of practice. Below, I’ll illustrate the…
Jan 29, 2020
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Jan 29, 2020
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Tutorials, case studies, history, and inspiration
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UX Collective
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Joseph Mackereth
Visualizing direction and the use of arrowsHow graphic arrows support our natural abilities and make us better wayfinders
Mar 6, 2023
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Mar 6, 2023
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The Iconfinder Blog
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Scott Lewis (@atomiclotus)
Interview with Vincent Le Moign
Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013
Dmitri Litvinov
Fixing Icons for MediumCouple of months ago I got approached to fix up the old icons on Medium and make them pixel perfect, and also introduce each icon in two…
Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015