Icons
If an icon is working well its effectively invisible to casual user- there when you need it, unobtrusive when you don’t. Whether a small design element in a larger web page or collateral piece, or the building blocks of a User Interface, the goal for any icon is communicate effectively, shape the interaction a viewer has, and to never command to much attention or contemplation. In this respect icons are a distillation of the Designer’s ethos but they require the eye of an Illustrator to create.
Prezi Icons
Working with a different Verisk business units, I was called upon to add to a preexisting quite of icons developed for use in Prezi. Used in a similar manner to the Powerpoint Illustrations I created for the AIR marketing team, the challenge here was to maintain the style that had already been created while also clearly communicating certain concepts specific to their line of business.
Icon Library
When the assorted Verisk business units were brought together in an effort to consolidate and unify, the respective marketing efforts and design teams sought similarly consolidate their resources.
To that end, I headed up a project to take the over 900 icons used by every design team and create a comprehensive centralized library. The goal was to eliminate repetition, unify a single look and feel across all of the icons, and make sure the library fit with the newly created Verisk design standards.
Touchstone
I worked with the User Experience team at AIR to update, revamp, and overhaul the user interface to Touchstone, one of AIR Worldwide’s leading software platforms. Featured here is the first of these endeavors, a modern remake of the UI elements, updating the icons from the preexisting Window Xp era design.
This redesign included finding a modern approach for several stock interface elements (refresh, delete, etc.) but also included many icons that were industry specific and had to be newly re-imagined.
