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Now the next question is, what exactly makes a good app icon?
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What should you tell your designer to create?
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The first thing that's most important is that never have text in your app icon.
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Just never do it.
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The reason for that is because text scales really badly. So it might look really nice when that icon
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is huge and on Photoshop,
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but if it's displayed on an Apple Watch or if it's displayed on an iPhone 4
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trust me
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you can't see what it says.
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And if you can't read it then there's no point having it there at all.
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So try to stay away from text i.e. words as much as you can. Instead keep it clean, keep it simple, keep it
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iconic.
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So something that makes it so unique so people can recognize it just by the font, just by the color
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scheme.
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For example, you know any of these five Apple icons if I just took away the word that showed you which
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app they're from, you'll know that the icon is Pinterest and you'll know that's Pocket if you've used
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Pocket and you'll know that's Vine.
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So just like a logo, it's simple, it's iconic and it encapsulates the brand.
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So try and aim for something like that.