by Justas | Apr 23, 2018 | Articles
Today, increasing numbers of healthcare institutions are embracing the Internet to share helpful health information, create professional communities, and to provide online patient care. However, like many other conservative industries, healthcare suffers from a lack of progressive web design, with a well-elaborated UX and detailed approach. Not least are the icons, which can improve usability and make medical website or software recognizable. In this article, Agente unveils some design secrets and shows how to create healthcare icons and make them effective. In the end, you’ll have a chance to download a free medical icons set developed by their design team. How to get ideas for your medical icon sets? Every design process has its unique workflow, and icon design is no exception. To make an icon set sharp and elegant, just sitting and drawing is not enough. Only a lot of research, preparation, and iterations will bring your work to perfection. Let’s check the basic steps towards designing an icon set for healthcare. Define real-life objects in healthcare that you need to illustrate We all recognize the famous “send” icon in messengers illustrated by a paper plane. The paper sheet which represents mail is combined with the shape of an airplane which constitutes an act of sending. The same should work with healthcare icons to make them recognizable and intuitive. Research the industry or the needs of the specific company to reflect the action by the relevant object. Example: object—first-aid kit, action—buy medicals; object—radiation sign, action—warn about poisonous elements. Visualize these objects as sketches. After you have decided on the set of objects, try to visualize them on paper....
by Justas | Apr 8, 2018 | Inspiration
As I do every month, I collected the best icons to give you this essential pinch of inspiration and keep the fire inside of you burning. Take a peek into these different styles and unique approaches towards icon design! It’s always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I selected for you this time. Feel free to pin and share the ones that you love the most. It will help these great icon designers to get discovered. Stay inspired, stay curious. Need more inspiration? Check out Best Icons of the Year here: Best Icons of the Year 2017 Best Icons of the Year 2016 Want to learn how to create icons as awesome as these ones? Check out my Free Icon Design Guide. It will teach you everything you need to know about icon design to get...
by Justas | Mar 6, 2018 | Inspiration
As I do every month, I collected the best icons to give you this essential pinch of inspiration and keep the fire inside of you burning. Take a peek into these different styles and unique approaches towards icon design! It’s always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I selected for you this time. Feel free to pin and share the ones that you love the most. It will help these great icon designers to get discovered. Stay inspired, stay curious. Need more inspiration? Check out Best Icons of the Year here: Best Icons of the Year 2017 Best Icons of the Year 2016 Want to learn how to create icons as awesome as these ones? Check out my Free Icon Design Guide. It will teach you everything you need to know about icon design to get...
by Justas | Feb 6, 2018 | Inspiration
As I do every month, I collected the best icons to give you this essential pinch of inspiration and keep the fire inside of you burning. Take a peek into these different styles and unique approaches towards icon design! It’s always a great pleasure to discover them. I’m pretty sure that you will find some fantastic icon designers and icon sets amongst the ones I selected for you this time. Feel free to pin and share the ones that you love the most. It will help these great icon designers to get discovered. Stay inspired, stay curious. Need more inspiration? Check out Best Icons of the Year here: Best Icons of the Year 2017 Best Icons of the Year 2016 Want to learn how to create icons as awesome as these ones? Check out my Free Icon Design Guide. It will teach you everything you need to know about icon design to get...
by Justas | Jan 16, 2018 | Articles
You like icon design, don’t you? Those cute little thingies. Once you notice them, you instantly know what it should mean and this brings a smile to your face. You browse through Dribbble and Behance every day, pinning and favoriting icons you’ve loved the most. But you’re not making our own icons yet. Wait, what? Why? I’ve stopped counting how many times I’ve been asked about how to start and the tools one can use. All those questions and doubts instead of simply starting to actually work on icons! Let this be the wake-up call for you. This time rather than fantasizing about that awesome icon set you will make one day – create it this instant! (Right after you are done reading this article, of course.) If you’re feeling stuck, the first thing I’d recommend doing is checking out my Free Icon Design Guide. There I’ve put everything you need to know about icon design to get started. May you still have questions, keeping reading! I’ve collected a few questions that people have been asking me throughout the years and tried to answer them shortly but comprehensively. Do you see the question that has been eating you away and stopping you from creating your own icon sets? What Program Should I use? Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch – which one to choose? Which of them is better for icon design? Truth is, it doesn’t matter. Choose whichever you know best, and create killer icon sets in it. Personally, I’m using Adobe Illustrator, but if you know nothing about the Illustrator’s workflow, you won’t be able to create icons there, right?...
