This is my new proposed icon design for the android application "Xabber", designed using Adobe Illustrator. The features of this app is right down below:
Open source Jabber (XMPP) client with multi-account support and clean and simple interface. Being both free (as in freedom!) and ad-free, Xabber is designed to be the best Jabber client for Android.
Features:
- Modern material interface
- Multiple accounts support
- Quick swipe between chats
- Rich visibility settings for contacts and groups
- Compatible with all standard XMPP servers
- Multi user chat (MUC)
- Chat history
- Export history to SD card
- Server side message archive support
- Inline hyperlink support (web pages, YouTube, e-mail, phone numbers, XMPP Uri)
- Avatars
- View contact's information (vCard)
- Grouping contacts by groups and/or accounts
- Contact list management: add/remove/edit contacts, groups, subscriptions
- Contact search
- Notification setting for each contact
- Notifications based on key phrase
- Full Unicode support, chat in any language
- Portrait and landscape views
- Stream compression (not all servers supported for now)
- Resources/priorities
- OTR encryption
- TLS support
- Legacy SSL support
- SASL support
- Check for the server certificate
- SRV record and DNS round robin support
- Client software icons in contact list (Adium, Empathy, Gajim, Gtalk, iChat, Miranda, Pidgin, Psi, QIP, Xabber, Xabber VIP)
- Typing notification support
- Message delivery receipts
- Shortcut to a chat on home screen
Design Concept:
The idea was to create a simple and modern logo design. By utilizing the current's idea of a lightbulb and reinventing it into cleaner and sleeker look and retaining the original color scheme.
Icon Sizes
96px
72px
48px
32px
Mockup On Mobile Device:
Font Used: Calibri Light
Benefits / Improvements
Design is cleaner and modern and brings a fresh look to the Xabber brand. It is much easier for the eyes compared to the current logo.
Tools
I used Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 version for both design and presentation. Here are some screenshots for proof of works.
Original files
You can download all the original files here:
Image Sources:smart phone , android home screen
Font source : Calibri Light
Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors