This week’s design crush is all about button and icons. Most of the time people click on buttons and don’t take much notice of them, but a well design icon can not only give a site a more professional and sleek look, but it can also encourage users to select the button and give your site that all important personality.
Icon design is tricky, with such a small area to play with, it can often be hard to design a successful icon. It’s all about the details. With icons, there should almost certainly be simplistic detail used; only the necessary details should be included to allow your button to be easily understood. And the more it stands out the more chance you have of people selecting it. RSS feed icons are a popular button to be redesigned to try to attract people to sign up to the blog feed. Here are some examples for you to have a ponder over:
Why would you spend hours of your time designing a new icon instead of using a standard one? The answer is personality. If you want your website and company brand to pack a bit more punch online, having unique elements in your site is sure to deliver. And there no easier way of doing this than having unique buttons and icons. But if you’re not up for designing one yourself, there are many websites where you can download more unusual looking icons to give your site that little twist.
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Tags: graphic design, graphics, icon design, rss, Rss feeds
