Turbo Milk has an illustrative piece on 10 common mistakes in icon design.
Designing icons has always been an art I admire and respect as one of the more difficult challenges in graphic design. Not only do they have to look good and accomplish a specific goal (or else!), but they have to do so in an incredibly limited amount of space.
This piece does a great job showing all of the complexities that go into well-excuted icons, which sadly I think suffer a similar fate to umpires in baseball - if they’re doing their job, no one notices, so people only end up talking about the bad ones.
Update: If you’re interested in seeing an icon designer walk through their workflow, check out this presentation by Jon Hicks
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