Icon Design in Adobe XD - From Sketching to Flat Icon Sets

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: Adobe IllustratorSketchFigmaAffinity DesignInvision Studioand many moreThe 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: Overview of Adobe XDUnderstanding types of icons and when to use themCreating a design brief and planning your icons to have a consistent style and colors. Researching icon metaphors and sketching your ideasSetting up your workspace for icon designCreating and merging shapes to create complex iconsUsing TransparencyBalancing icon sizes and positionsCreating a simple icon setConverting a filled icon set to outlinesExporting iconsand more.