Icons for your software products. Selected.

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who took part in the action . There were much more interesting programs that needed an icon than I expected, and the choice was not easy. To enhance the intrigue, I’ll give a list of criteria to start with, which I was guided by when choosing

• no icon, bad or taken from a clip art icon;
• focus on the Russian-speaking market or the presence of localization;
• the degree of readiness of the program - preference was given to ready-made and working products;
• free program;
• availability of the application from the developer;
• the size of the required icon - I was primarily interested in programs that need large beautiful icons (small, of course, will be attached to them);
• the popularity of the program - I wish that not only developers, but also as many users as possible could admire the icon :)

So, three lucky ones are:

• DaemonI and his qutIM
• Aidsoid and eponymous viewer
• as well as Liksys and lightlang

They will receive an icon for the New Year in sizes from 256x256 to 16x16.

In addition, the bonus group (it's still NPDD, and it's hard for me to keep from doing good deeds) are the following developers and products:

• koreec and MyHomeLib will get an icon in sizes 16x16 and 32x32;
• Mezomish with a text editor will receive an icon 16x16 + 48x48;
• dust and a plugin for uploading pictures and photos for TinyMCE will become owners of the 20x20 icon.

But most likely it will be after the New Year. I promise to think about the icon for Total Commander :)

All other participants of the action can count on New Year's (and not only) discounts, advantages in the following promotions, help by advice and other good deeds on my part. I would be glad to have iconicized everyone, but you also need to earn bread for caviar;)
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The results of the development of promotional icons will be public. So by the New Year I will please you and myself with another post.

In conclusion, I would like to ask everyone to answer 3 questions:

• Why does your software product need an icon, and what, in your opinion, are its quality criteria?
• Describe your 3 biggest problems (related to your product and developing an icon for it).
• Describe 3 of your strongest aspirations (related to your product and developing an icon for it).

The resulting information will be used by me in writing the book “Creating Icons: 5 Simple Steps”, as well as for personal purposes :) The icons developed during the campaign will illustrate the book and be used in the portfolio on the site .