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Iconic Loves OmniGraffle

Posted on 10 March, 2010 at 7:36am with 3 comments

While I am working the final pieces of a new article, I wanted to tie up some loose ends. Iconic is still a living/growing project. I continue to design icons for the set as they are needed – as expected, the set grows in spurts. Yesterday, I added 11 more icons to the set, a few of which really should have been in the original release. The new icons consist of a link, thumbtack, two map pins, horizontal move and vertical move (both in three styles) and cursor. The set has increased in number by roughly twenty new icons since its initial release and there is still plenty of room for it to grow. More importantly though, the icons are now available as an Omnigraffle stencil – hopefully this will be useful to all the beautiful IA/UX peeps around the world. Read the rest of this post…


Android Icons

Posted on 12 November, 2009 at 12:40pm with no comments

The package includes 30 PNG menu icons plus the additional source files for further customization.


Yes, I Am Making Progress

Posted on 13 August, 2008 at 12:32pm with 8 comments

It has been around a week since I wrote that this blog was going through a redesign. Unfortunately, until then, I was most likely be writing about the its progress. Still, I thought it may be interesting for some to read snippets of where it is in the process.

At this moment, wireframes are around 80% complete – which sounds good – however, because of the 80/20 rule, that means that I am still a long way off. I have tried to scatter my work around so as to diminish the potential for tunnel-vision on some aspects of the design, so I took some time to begin on some necessary icons. Up to this point, the vast majority of traffic to this site funnels through two icon sets I made a while back. Ironically, those sets took all but 2-3 hours to make whereas this set is taking much longer.

Here’s a preview of some icons:

SRD Icons

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Bitcons+ & Sansons+

Posted on 6 June, 2006 at 9:37pm with 6 comments

A few weeks ago, Bitcons and Sanscons hit the milestone of 10,000 downloads combined. I never would have thought so many people would be interested in these icons, but I obviously was wrong. Over 33 percent of my traffic is affiliated with referrals to one of those pages and “Bitcons” is my number one search referral. I definitely do not want to be “the icon guy”, but I still thought it would be good karma to thank you for all the attention by releasing some new versions of the icons. So I have welcomed into the family Bitcons+ and Sanscons+.
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RSS vs. RSS – A Tale of Two Icons

Posted on 10 March, 2006 at 4:24pm with 33 comments

This article is somewhat belated and could be considered much ado about nothing, but nonetheless I think this is a relevant topic to discuss. Microsoft recently announced that they would be using the RSS icon introduced by the Firefox browser. This was considered a very wise choice by many, including myself at first as it was a victory (albeit small) for standardization. Soon afterward, Matt Brett started a micro-site to help propagate this icon for use by the public. I commend Matt’s efforts and fully back him on the notion that a standard icon needs to be established for syndication. My argument is that we are not backing the right icon…
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