Historically, Illustrator's main shortcoming when creating artwork destined for the screen was its lack of a true pixel grid. Once you understand how the pixel grid works in Illustrator, you can use it to optimize anti-aliasing while still getting all the detail you might need for your idea. While it was an effective way to get the look I wanted, it was inflexible when I tried to make other sizes.
This was the only way that I could think of to get the anti-aliasing just right. The first few icons that I ever drew were created with 1 x 1 vector squares that mimicked pixels (see Figure 1).įigure 1 Creating vector icons the hard way-pixel by pixel. When designing icons in Illustrator, you could create the icons just as you would in a raster-based application such as Photoshop. This gives you the ultimate speed and efficiency not only when creating an icon, but also when working with multiple sizes of an icon and making entire icon sets. Although these tools do a great job, using Illustrator has the distinct advantage of letting you work in a fully vector environment. If you've ever designed icons, you probably used Photoshop or a dedicated icon editor. I won't spend time on getting the perfect metaphor or how to get your finished icon into production instead, you'll learn how to use Illustrator's flexible toolset and UI features to help you develop and refine your idea. This article will show you how to set up Illustrator for the task and provide some efficient techniques for getting your design just right. Many tools are available for designing icons, but you may not be aware that Illustrator CS6 is great for the job. If you don't get the metaphor right and then nail the execution, you may leave your users scratching their heads in confusion. Icons give your users visual cues to the features and content in your applications.
Not only does it take real artistic ability the ideation and implementation of the correct metaphor also are crucial to success. In my opinion, one of the more difficult aspects of UI design is that of creating icons.
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