Lim Tianyi If the app icon wasn’t good looking, potential customers would expect that the user interface in the app would not be up to standard as well. To have a well designed app does not require you to make it complicated. It can be simple but visually attractive. Imagine that the app icon can speak. It would say, “download me now.”
To get an idea of how to design your app icon, you can go and take a look at the other app icons in your market, or related markets. If you are into weight loss, you can browse apps in the health category. Initially I wanted to use my book cover for the app icon, which looked like this: But when it was shrunk down to the iPhone size, the words were hardly visible and the lady in the image became small, hence I needed to redesign the app icon. I went to look through the food category for some inspirations and I found
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