100 Days of UI Challenge Day 5: App Icon

Ok so here is day 5, i skipped day 4 its a calculator, i will post that later today, my take on the radar logo/app icon, no grids or golden mean just just a radar speech bubble amalgam there’s on billion things wrong with it.

at least i figured i get points for trying :slight_smile:

So here it is

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Looks a tee wee a bit like a speedometer. Execution is on-point, otherwise

yeah i’ve been trying to figure out how to change that speedometer look but for some weird reason, cant seem to figure that out

You can start by making the needle very slim. A streak should be sufficient. Looking at the current Radar logo. That’s how the streak should be. Below are examples of real radars. Cheers!

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Nice work.

I’m guessing that the logo is supposed to look like a “chat icon” just like the whatsapp icon.
If so, I’d say you should tweek it a little bit more as it looks more like the letter “P”.

Minimal? Abstract? Unclear?

Personally, if the old logo isn’t broken then no need to fix it. Remember guys, this is about ideas of all sort to fly. We just give feedback within ourselves :slight_smile:

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I like this a lot, @SignorChuksy. I’m wondering if you’ll be able to get away with giving it another speech bubble “leg”, so it looks more R than P. Dunno.

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Exactly what I thought. As an ‘R’ it would be more appropriate. The line should also become thinner, much thinner, so it looks less like a speedometer.

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Really cool designs. I always knew there are design pros somewhere here.
You guys no just dey show face.
There’s so much on developers and not a lot on designers(Nigeria specifically).
On a certain day, out of curiosity, after so many trials I ended up googling “andela for designers” in one of my numerous searches. Nothing really substantial came up.

More power brother. Please keep this coming. Can’t wait for the design category after 100 days.

For the Android Mafia :robot:

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Good to see how creatives are thinking.
Looks good, but feels too much and forced.

True, there shouldn’t be different threads for one design, concept.

Just playing around. What do you think?


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Hmmmmm… I went off for a while and I come back to see designers are more active on radar now. Awesome.

So many cool ideas here, but just as @leslie said… if it ain’t broken, why fix it?

I like this one a lot. I designed the original logo so I appreciate that the top left version isn’t too far off from the original. You might have guessed that I’m partial to flat designs sha :slight_smile: but cool stuff.

I think, because my background was design for print, I’m always somewhat skeptical of logos/brand designs that aren’t flat, or rely too much on gradients, or don’t have a nice flat glyph.

Because real-world application is often a b/tch.

Even Instagram, the king of gradient logos does this > http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_icon_for_instagram_done_in_house.php#.V1j5BpMrKfQ

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We’re looking into that at akanka.com :slight_smile:

Yup. Learnt did during one of our designs for a print company. Great designs! and then the real world shows you the impracticality of such designs in terms of printing & cost. Quite an eye-opener.

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Expectant to see what you come up with.
For now, well done.

My love for minimal designs though