[UX-WEEK 2] Icons (Application icons and icons in the UI)
This week I got the suggestion by someone that we should focus on icons. I'm not a graphic artist myself, but I know there are lots of helpful and able designers on this forum - it's your chance to help out here and make the UI more prettier.
We do not concentrate so much on layout and text, but directly on the icons. Here's a draft of how it could look like (suggestions always welcome):
Designers should then help out with fixing the icons or creating new ones and sending them to the application maintainer who can then hopefully easily replace the icons without having to do much coding. Icon sizes are documented here: App manager icon size: 48x48 Task manager icon size: 64x64 Please also make sure to re-use existing icons in the icon theme (or from other applications) if they describe the same behaviour/action (e.g. the "share" icon, general_add, etc..). You can find the icons in /usr/share/icons/ Add application/menu icons to this wiki page where we can more easily track progress (also upload new icons there and change the status if you are working on icons: http://wiki.maemo.org/UX/Icons |
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Let me begin with the apps I've installed.
App menu (edit: I've added these to http://wiki.maemo.org/UX/Icons now) Brain Party - Blurry icon, square without rounded edges (new icons are on the way) Numpty Physics - Icon looks blurry, "dirty" in upper left corner GLtron - Pixelated bike - definitely needs rework Fahrplan - A good metaphor, but it's blurry liqflow - Also a good metaphor, but again blurry (some alpha blending on the edges might look good, too?) Wiicontrol - A very cool app, but it's missing an application icon (maybe the upper part of the WiiMote? Or the WiiMote as a whole?) (As a short side node, the emulators have really good, high-quality icons - I really like all of them!) App manager Brain Party - too small; but is already being fixed (see above) Extra Decoders Support - White square background - the white could be transformed to be transparent Fahrplan - the icon looks a bit blurry - at least at the edges Feedhandler - Missing an icon (a RSS icon or something would be nice) FeedingIt - Good icon, but too small GLtron - Same problem as Extra Decoders Support: White rectangle background that could be transparent Headphone Daemon - Icon too small; maybe it could also have a better metaphor (right now, it's a bus because headphoned prevents "public transport situations") Jamaendo Player - Icon too small liqflow - Icon missing Mapper - Icon too small MPlayer - Icon missing Numpty Physics - Icon looks blurry OpenSSH - Client, server and "client and server" packages - all of them have a icon that's too small and that has a white square background that should be transparent Panucci - Icon too small Petrovich - Icon missing rootsh - Icon missing Simple Brightness Applet - Icon missing Theremin - Icon too small Unzip add-on for the FM - Icon missing vncviewer - Icon too small; could have white background (or get rid of the white lines above and below?) Wiicontrol - Icon missing (see above) |
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Well, I'm willing to lend hand on designing some of these, as soon as I get back home, I'll see about it.
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I've now populated the wiki page with some icons + description in a nice table: http://wiki.maemo.org/UX/Icons
This should hopefully make it easier to track progress and see a comparison of current icons and proposed icons. Please set the status to TAKEN if you are working on an icon, then upload both sizes to the wiki, link them from the page and set the status to FINISHED and then contact the application maintainer. If you have found another app with bad/missing icons, please add the current icon and a short description to the table as "NEW". |
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Thank you THP - very much appreciated!
I'm not the greates at icons eitehr, but i would lvoe to see some of them redone. I'm not going as far as to suggest minimum standards, but i hope you all agree, some standards are useful! :D - nice icons, make more a nice desktop etc :D Following on from THP's List, They are a good set to focus on :) Will go away and try and come up with some suggestions/solutions :D Would also be helpful to mail any authors if you want them to assist in either replacing/agreeing/commenting etc!! :D |
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My thoughts. All of these are from application manager.
No icons at all:
Icons that are blurry:
Icons that could be larger:
Other problems, like icons that don't seem to match applications, or are unclear:
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This thread is right up my street, i used to make icons for s60 alot, i also used to mod alot of apps, change the apps UI etc, iv also made some icons for my N900 to match the Maemo 5 UI as i hate having dif style icons, will post some later and i will work on some new icons.
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Im not sure how to add icons etc to the wiki page, i dont want to mess it up.
Here are my proposed icons for Unzip add-on for the FM ... Attachment 9031 Attachment 9032 Regards, Biggzy. |
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Thanks Bigzy.
Also scary to see just how many do not have icons :| I can forgive the blurry ones, whilst the rest actually get icons! hehe The wiki page is pretty hard to add images, i did try, but also wasn't sure.... Going to work on some this week and throw my two pence in in the middle of the week :D All help is welcome :D |
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