Tips for Twits » design http://t.wits.sg WARNING: excessive use of this site will increase MP at the expense of HP Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 HOWTO: Find icons for your new prototype system http://t.wits.sg/2009/06/14/howto-find-icons-for-your-new-prototype-system/ http://t.wits.sg/2009/06/14/howto-find-icons-for-your-new-prototype-system/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:08:11 +0000 gaweee http://t.wits.sg/?p=284 Having a good UI is 30% of your customer won. No i dont know, 30% was completely arbitrary but absolutely believable. As such, please dont try to make those icons yourself! As all developers know, we try our best not to reinvent the wheel. Unless the wheel sucks and we have the budget, then we knock ourselves out. :D
So its time to share those little icon secrets! Where do you find nice icons!?

  • famfamfam. If you dont know this site, you should be SHOT. Mark James spent good time making a fantastic set of icons so that everyone else could use them. Kudos to him!
  • crystal iconsAnother awesome job done by Everaldo. Download link’s not working. Use this instead. Made primarily for the KDE workspace. Which brings us to my next point
  • Any other Linux icons sources. These includes kde-look, tango, interfacelift, deviantart
  • Iconfinder. Its new, its awesome and apparently they’re license-friendly! If everything’s as promised, they’re gonna kick some serious internet butt! We’re fans already!
  • Ok we admit, sometimes we’re really tempted to use existing packages icons. Joomla has a really nice set. :D

All in all, plenty of icons. And if that doesnt work out. Go buy some from istockphoto and stock.xchng! They’re the pros for a good reason!
And a final word in licensing. Respect it. Not so much for the hard work, but more for the fact that designers can do what we cannot. Even if we tried, we probably wouldn’t have as much flair. Just like magicians.

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I hope you readers will like it!

I think i should spend some time explaining to the readers what this site is really about. This blog is an outlet for our team to contribute back to the online community the tips and tricks and hair-losing answer’s we’ve spent so much of our time acquiring. We plan to have a team of writers eventually blogging about very different aspects of our work. It could be any topic that range from technology tutorials to consultancy statistics/findings to our favourite designer color palettes. So in a way, this site is meant to be touch-and-go. Come in, get your answers, get out. For those of you who will eventually be reading every single article, from business to programming to design….. AND you happen to be looking for a challenge … AND you’d like a (new) job … perhaps you should really be contacting us for a job! :D

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