All right, welcome back.
So in this video, we're going to talk about what is icon design.
And so according to Wikipedia, icon design is the process of designing a graphic symbol represents
some real fantasy or abstract motive, an entity or action in the context of software applications.
An icon often represents a program of function, data or collection of data on a computer system.
So style and usage icon designs can be simple with flat, two dimensional drawing or black silhouette
or complex presenting a combination of graphic design elements such as the one or more linear and radio
color gradients, projected shadows, contours, shades and three dimension.
No perspective effects, case or size in a computer I can be use in different sizes.
I can.
Design involves creating master artwork using four for the biggest size use and producing smaller sizes
from it.
It is desirable to comply with overall style icons set using the same color palette perspective renderings
for all icon special attention is given to eliminating unnecessary details and aligning strokes and
objects to pixels in small icon sizes to avoid messy and blurred images.
So basically, icon design is essential for anybody that wants to do anything with mobile or app design
and also anybody that wants to use icons to explain something.
Okay, so I'm going to give you an example.
Let's go to my Web site.
Tech plus dot com.
Once his loads up, you'll see right away.
I have icons.
There's a male icon right here.
We have social media icons right here.
And I have an icon up here that represents learned tech plus.
So when you save my page to your bookmarks, it grabs that icon and it will show it right here.
OK, so then when when I open up a new page.
It didn't work.
Let me open up another browser here.
OK.
There we go.
So when I open up another browser.
It shows me where I've been.
It shows me where I've been recently.
And you can see learn tech plus this is a beautiful icon.
OK.
And it's a play button.
So it's insinuating.
OK, weren't tech plus his video just like YouTube?
It's the same idea with YouTube.
They did the same thing.
They made a tube and then put a play button in the middle.
Same deal with mine.
I just put a circle on mine and then played button and change the color up there and then kept it white
here to kind of give it a little different look.
Originally, I was gonna do like the white logo, like my wallpaper here.
If you can see it here.
Like this.
So this is my ultimate logo.
But you can see right here in this icon design.
This gives me a lot of room to change colors.
I could change color this or that or that.
So basically, that's icon design.
Icon design is essential in today's branding and marketing departments and also app and mobile design
and Web sites, too.
And icons are used all over digital media.
So it's imperative that you understand what it is and why it's important to use it, because everybody
uses icons, because, again, the icon is an extension of this logo.
So if you don't if I can't fit learn tech plus online learning somewhere, I put this there and I'm
saying, OK, this is learn tech plus online learning right here.
This icon represents this.
OK.
So it's very important, understand?
And I think you're really going to enjoy the projects that we're gonna do because we're going to build
this icon out in two different sizes, one for the iPhone app icon and then also one for the iPad app
icon.
Okay.
So thanks for watching us in the next video.