Icon Design in Adobe XD – From Sketching to Flat Icon Sets
Icon Design in Adobe XD – From Sketching to Flat Icon Sets, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 36 lectures, based on 147 reviews, and has 4326 subscribers.
You will learn about Vector Design Sketching your ideas Establishing grids Creating simple shapes, paths, and strokes to make complex icons Creating custom shapes with the pen tool Using Transparency Practical graphic design skills that can be used in Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Sketch, Figma and dozens of other design tools Exporting icons in PNG, SVG, JPG, PDF and more This course is ideal for individuals who are Graphic designers wanting to design icons or Interface designers wanting to design icons or Designers wanting to learn Adobe XD by example or Students wanting to advance their career as a graphic or interface designer or Students wanting to learn Vector Design It is particularly useful for Graphic designers wanting to design icons or Interface designers wanting to design icons or Designers wanting to learn Adobe XD by example or Students wanting to advance their career as a graphic or interface designer or Students wanting to learn Vector Design.
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Summary
Title: Icon Design in Adobe XD – From Sketching to Flat Icon Sets
Price: $19.99
Average Rating: 4.45
Number of Lectures: 36
Number of Published Lectures: 36
Number of Curriculum Items: 36
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 36
Original Price: $99.99
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
- Vector Design
- Sketching your ideas
- Establishing grids
- Creating simple shapes, paths, and strokes to make complex icons
- Creating custom shapes with the pen tool
- Using Transparency
- Practical graphic design skills that can be used in Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Sketch, Figma and dozens of other design tools
- Exporting icons in PNG, SVG, JPG, PDF and more
Who Should Attend
- Graphic designers wanting to design icons
- Interface designers wanting to design icons
- Designers wanting to learn Adobe XD by example
- Students wanting to advance their career as a graphic or interface designer
- Students wanting to learn Vector Design
Target Audiences
- Graphic designers wanting to design icons
- Interface designers wanting to design icons
- Designers wanting to learn Adobe XD by example
- Students wanting to advance their career as a graphic or interface designer
- Students wanting to learn Vector Design
Learn how to design visually engaging and cohesive icon sets in any program. I’ll teach best practices on brainstorming icons, finding the right metaphors, sketching your ideas, and finally designing high resolution icons and simple icon versions that will work on smaller screens.
Although I’ll be teaching you in Adobe XD (because it is free), I’m going to cover tools that are also found in your favorite design programs including:
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Adobe Illustrator
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Sketch
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Figma
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Affinity Design
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Invision Studio
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and many more
The concepts you learn here can be put into practice for web graphics, web design, interaction design, graphic illustration and much more.
Things you will learn in this course include:
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Overview of Adobe XD
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Understanding types of icons and when to use them
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Creating a design brief and planning your icons to have a consistent style and colors.
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Researching icon metaphors and sketching your ideas
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Setting up your workspace for icon design
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Creating and merging shapes to create complex icons
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Using Transparency
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Balancing icon sizes and positions
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Creating a simple icon set
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Converting a filled icon set to outlines
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Exporting icons
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and more.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Welcome to Learn Icon Design Using Adobe XD
Lecture 2: Getting design feedback through this course
Lecture 3: Using the exercise files
Chapter 2: Getting Set Up
Lecture 1: What you should know
Lecture 2: Installing Adobe XD
Lecture 3: Understanding Adobe XD interface for icon design
Chapter 3: Understanding Icons
Lecture 1: Types of icons
Lecture 2: When to use icons
Lecture 3: Keep your icons consistent
Lecture 4: Different source formats
Chapter 4: Planning your icons
Lecture 1: Preparing a creative brief (style and colors)
Lecture 2: Researching metaphors for your icons
Lecture 3: Sketching icons
Lecture 4: Scanning sketches to your computer
Chapter 5: Setting up your workspace for icons
Lecture 1: Creating artboards
Lecture 2: Setting up grids
Lecture 3: Importing sketches
Lecture 4: Using layers for organization
Lecture 5: Managing Color
Chapter 6: Drawing icons
Lecture 1: Creating shapes
Lecture 2: Merging shapes
Lecture 3: Using the pen tool
Lecture 4: Converting combined shapes into a path
Lecture 5: Using transparency
Lecture 6: Icon design challenge
Lecture 7: Icon design solution
Chapter 7: Icon balance and consistency
Lecture 1: Balancing icon sizes
Lecture 2: Simplifying icons for smaller screen sizes
Chapter 8: Creating an icon set
Lecture 1: Creating a notification icon
Lecture 2: Creating a heart icon
Lecture 3: Creating a cloud icon
Lecture 4: Creating a chat icon
Lecture 5: Creating a calendar icon
Lecture 6: Converting icons to outlines
Lecture 7: Toggling between filled and outlined icons
Chapter 9: Exporting your icons
Lecture 1: Exporting to Raster and Vector formats
Instructors
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Caleb Kingston
User Interface teacher www.appdesigntips.com
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- 3 stars: 18 votes
- 4 stars: 43 votes
- 5 stars: 81 votes
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