by Muddassir Hosein in Design on 3rd Oct 2012 · Comments

Effective Use of Icons as a Crucial Part of Web Design

Conclusion

Designers should emphasize on effectiveness more than they style. The main purpose of using icons should be to enhance the content and design; therefore, it is essential to see how the selected icons will compliment the rest of the website. Before spending bucks on a cool set of icons, you must have the style of your website in your mind.

Remember, simplicity attracts and works more, as you have seen in many of the examples above. Please let us know in the comments section below which one you liked the most when it comes to aesthetics and functionality.

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Muddassir Hosein

Muddassir Hosein likes graphics, experimenting with creative techniques and loves writing for web design blogs.

http://www.sjlwebdesign.co.uk Sam Logan

Great article Muddassir, some fantastic inspiration
http://simonemarcarino.com Simone Marcarino

Thanks for the mention!!! ;)
http://cebuwebdesign.com/ Ferdinand

Simple, flat and 1-color icons seems to work well compared to 3d-ish heavy colored images.
http://icreatesolutions.com.au/ Louie Bennett

As a newbie web designer, I'm digging every single one of these designs. Hoping that one day I will be able to create such designs. Thanks for the inspiration.
http://www.markupcloud.com/ Mike Swan

Nice Post. Really lots of efforts have been put in this post.
http://fivetailors.com/ Andrei Gadoiu

Thanks for including FiveTailors.com in this great selection!
http://www.motocms.com Ceba

Icon tells the story behind it, It shows what your website is all about, a well designed icon helps website owner to gear up the business. I saw some great icons here. Nice and Inspiring article Thanks !!
http://www.xstudiosinc.com J bronson

Going the extra mile to create custom icons can be so worth the effort, when they are done correctly.
http://www.lexolutionit.com/ Maneet Puri

Great Muddassir! Informational words from your side. Icons and web design have a deep and inverse relationship with each other as icons play a very important role in making a web design much more appealing. Icons can be made much more interesting by breaking the trends that others have set; however, consistency is what we have to maintain throughout the design patterns. Hope you agree!
http://www.proweb365.com/services Web Design Quote

In my point of view, Icons like doors help user to check out your site. Therefore, If your "door" impressive, user will tend to spend more time & check out more your site. Effective use of icon will help your site keep user stay longer.