Design [udemy.com] Icon Design in Adobe XD - From Sketching to Flat Icon Sets

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DESCRIPTION:

What you'll learn:

• 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
• Vector Design

Requirements:

• Basic knowledge of how to navigate around your computer's file system
• Basic drawing tools are recommended such as a pencil, eraser, and sketchbook or paper
• A computer with Adobe XD installed (which is FREE)

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 Illustrator
• Sketch
• Figma
• Affinity Design
• Invision Studio
• 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:

• Overview of Adobe XD
• Understanding types of icons and when to use them
• Creating a design brief and planning your icons to have a consistent style and colors.
• Researching icon metaphors and sketching your ideas
• Setting up your workspace for icon design
• Creating and merging shapes to create complex icons
• Using Transparency
• Balancing icon sizes and positions
• Creating a simple icon set
• Converting a filled icon set to outlines
• Exporting icons
• and more.

Who this course is for:

• 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
• Graphic designers wanting to design icons

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