Nowadays, web designers and web developers can easily turns their web applications into mobile application with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Designing a great mobile application icon with good first impression is a crucial part of your success on mobile platform. There are few rules for you, when you are designing your mobile application icon:
Keep Simple
This is the most important rules in icon design. As a designer, you have to figure out what your app does? And expressing it to your target user within the limited visual spaces. (normally the size of the icon is 57px x57px)
Avoid Use Word As Main Element
You are not encourage to use word as a main element for your app icon, this is because your user will found difficult to read such small word inside an icon. Instead, you should try to use graphical element to represent and reflect your app’s concept.
Consistency
Same as web design, consistency is important when designing your app icon. You must make sure that your icon has the same style or graphical continuity with your application.
Stand Out From Others
Ask yourself “Does my icon stand out from others?” If no, then you have to study the problem and redesign again until your app icon looks unique and also accurately reflect your app.
Ok, now, we are going to show you some good design of mobile application icon for you and you can take it as a reference, when designing your own icon.
Speedtest.net
A native mobile app of the popular broadband test.
Toshl
An reliable personal financing receipts app tracker.
Checkers Free
A free checker application for iPhone and iPod.
App Cooker
App Cooker is the finest iOS mockup software ever created for iPad.
Paper Toss
A popular game that allow player to throw paper into the basket.
Flashlight
An utilities application that allow user to switch on the camera flashlight of iPhone.
Quick Recall
Quick Recall is a full featured to-do list and note manager application for ios user.
Definition
An app that provide the definition of millions of words.
Gift Plan
Gift Plan is an gift planning application.
World Clock Pro
A clock application for iPhone user.
PULP
An application that allow users to turn favourite RSS feeds into their own personalized newspaper.
Color Splash
Color Slash is an application that let users quickly and easily give photos a dramatic look by converting the photo into black and white, while keeping their chosen details in color.
Eye Colorizer
A photo makeover application that allow user to change the color of eyes.
Google Map
A Google Map application for Android enabled mobile devices.
Color Blindness Test
A color blindness test application for Android devices.
Tweetbot
Tweetbot is a full-featured iPhone Twitter client with a lot of personality.
Calcbot
Calcbot is a simple beautifully designed calculator for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.