Tips to follow for mobile app icon design:
Today, with the expansion of applications and with different designs, the expectations of mobile users from the design of applications have risen. Clicking the app icon will delete your app from your mobile phone.
You only have three seconds to present the application to the customer, to introduce the use of your app to him, that's why you should pay special attention to the appearance of the application and the appropriate choice of icon for the app.
When users are finding an application for their needs, the first thing they see from an application is its icon, and a distinctive icon can attract users' attention among hundreds of icons.
To design an application (build an application), two points should be considered:
1. Being beautiful: If your app has a beautiful icon, it will create this mindset in the audience that the rest of the app is well designed and has higher technology than its competitors.
2. Ability to quickly recognize: that the user can quickly recognize the subject among hundreds of applications to be searched.
Now, in order to comply with these two points, you must keep in mind some points in the design, which we will briefly explain below.
1. Ability to change icon size:
The size of the icons in the application stores or Appstores is larger. But they are smaller on the mobile screen and even smaller in the notification centers, so you must be sure that when your icon changes size, its clarity and quality will not decrease and it will be recognizable.
2. Icon color:
Before the users read the title of the icon, the color of the icon attracts their attention. Therefore, the accuracy in choosing the colors of the icon is of particular importance. Using two colors for icon design is enough, if you want to use several colors for design, you must have enough information about colors.
For example, red color represents rejection, yellow color also attracts attention. Softer colors can be used for icons that are less important.
Google has suggested several colors to design the application icon, which you can see in this section:
https://material.google.com/style/color.html#color-color-palette
To use these colors, you should pay attention to two points: 1. The icon consists of several parts. 2. What is the subject of the application? The icons that can be used for applications are divided into two categories:
1. Background:
In this type, the background icon is colored, but the layer on the background may be a system icon or another small icon in white. Iranian applications mostly use this type of icon.
2. foreground:
In this type of icons, the background color is light and the layer on the background is colored.
3. Not using a photo in the icon:
Do not use photos in mobile application icon design, you can attractively use elements instead of photos in icon design.
4. Failure to write text in the icon:
Do not write any text in icon design, you can use a symbol or logo for your application icon.
5. Transferring the application concept:
The design of the application should be such that you convey the concept and feeling of what the application does to the audience.
6. Be creative:
Icons that have a special creativity are more noticed and come to the eyes of the audience.
7. Icon design for all backgrounds:
It is possible that the icon you have designed looks very beautiful on a dark background, but not on a light background, so try to test your application icon on a variety of backgrounds.
And finally, the advice that Mike Cohen, from the InMobi advertising team, gives to application developers, to pay special attention to the time indicator. Make sure that the application icon, name and description provided, in the first search, are interesting for the user and be influential.
An example of poorly designed client icons. Just click on the name of the app to go to the details of the app in question.
Alkapida application And Cheap clothing application
