The Salcombe Web Design Blog
Welcome to the Salcombe Web Design blog. This is kept up to date by our Creative Director Daniel Ashton. Daniel is a project manager, graphic designer and website consultant. He set up Treblevision in Manchester in 2001, is now the driving force behind Salcombe web design and still works as one of the UK's leading freelance developers in PHP, HTMl5 and CSS3. Here you can follow all the company developments within Salcombe Web Design, but also more importantly, industry and technological advances in web development, brand and graphic design along with tutorials for novice developers and those who manage the content of their own design and website projects.
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19 January 2012
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graphic design
As touch screen technology and mobile devices become the standard for information technology the way we navigate is also changing. There's still a place for traditional navigation in the form of menus, but the nature of our newly beloved devices means we need quick visual references and large buttons to take us where we want to go.
So I thought I'd write series of articles on designing the perfect icon. The human race has been using icons ever since we painted cave walls. We've continued to use them to this day. They're a great way to declutter your page, speed up navigation and increase sales.
Unlike a logo that gives a company a strong brand as serves as a unique identifier, a icon in it's very nature needs to be familiar. Anyone who's ever tried to find the toilet in a foreign country will appreciate that familiarity and repeated design pattern make for the most effective icons.
There are 4 main types of icon;
- Objects
- Symbols representing actions
- A combination of the 2
- Abstract
