Icon Design @ Microsoft
Part of my job here at Microsoft is leading the visual design and branding efforts for the Windows Server division. That includes icon design and branding graphics such as autorun screens, boot screens, desktop wallpapers and more. I was recently asked by one of our UX Evangelists, Scott Barnes, to explain some thinking behind our icon design here at Microsoft. I tackled it together with my counterpart on the Windows Client team, Brittnie Hervey (she leads the icon design for Vista, IE, Live.com, etc), and here was the result: Microsoft Mix Blog.
Maybe I should have been a Ninja for Halloween this year? :-)
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You had me at Ninja...
Everyone needs to be a ninja at some point in their lives.. only i was once a teenage mutent ninja turtle.. which at 18 doesn't look as cute in front of your class mates..
Kids can be so cruel..
Posted by: Scott Barnes | October 31, 2007 4:17 AM
LOL....you are a nut man... :-)
Posted by: Frank Bisono | October 31, 2007 10:38 AM
Hi Frank! I'm going to visit MIX this year. Are you going there?
And one more thing. I've just posted article about icon metaphors: http://turbomilk.com/blog/cookbook/icon_design/10_outstanding_icon_metaphors/
Can you help me to add there some Microsoft icons?
Posted by: Denis Kortunov | January 22, 2009 7:40 AM