App Design

Create with Swift at Swift Heroes 2024

This article will get you started with material created for our session on ”Crafting better App Icons” at Swift Heroes 2024.

Giovanni Monaco, Moritz Philip Recke, Tiago Gomes Pereira

Apr 19, 2024 • 2 min read

On the 18th and 19th of April, the Swift Heroes 2024 was held in Turin, Italy. Flora Damiano was a speaker at the conference and presented a session about the importance of app icons and what to take into consideration when designing them, called “Crafting better app icons”.

Banner with a photo of Flora Damiano advertising her talk at the Swift Heroes conference — Flora Damiano at the Swift Heroes 2024 conference

An App Icon is the initial point of contact between users and applications, and it contributes significantly to first impressions. It has to be a distinctive and memorable graphical representation that serves as the visual identity for an app or a game. Flora Damiano

The session highlighted the technical aspects involved in designing, exporting, and displaying your App Icon correctly on the Apple platform you were developing for. The session also delved into the creative process, which plays an equally important role in enhancing the aesthetics and appeal of your App Icon and in ensuring the key aspects to consider to make it great, such as versatility, consistency, originality and memorability.

The session covered the following:

A brief history of app icons
The process of creating app icons
Guidelines for designing and using app icons
Key attributes of great app icons

Resources

There are several resources mentioned in the presentation:

Some articles on Create with Swift may serve as a reference to get you started if you want to explore the topic on your own:

Adapting your App Icon to visionOS

Learn how to bring your App Icon in visionOS

Create with SwiftFlora Damiano

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