COMPANY:
Promethean
Project Details
COMPANY
MY ROLES
Duration
STAKEHOLDERS
A cohesive icon font and design system.
From designing icons to implementation, ensuring that each icon aligned with the company’s growing design system.
My roles.
Maintained and updated the icon font that grew to over 1022 icons.
Owned the process from gathering and designing new icons, vetting their compliance to the rules and generating the new font for developers.
Oversaw and provided feedback across verticals for all new icons created.
Responsible for communicating all changes and updates to all teams.
Challenges.
Clarity: Icons needed to help users with instant recognition and impactful simplicity.
Scalability: Icons were used on multiple platforms.
Localization: The icons needed to be recognizable across different languages and cultures.
Collaboration and consistency: The icon font was used with multiple products and teams. It needed to meet different needs throughout the company.
Collaboration.
Getting icons into multiple products required coordination with several teams all with their own product managers, engineers and stakeholders. In collaboration with the product manager that owned the design system, I proposed a regular release schedule for the icon font to manage working across verticals a more seamless process.
The process from receiving or designing icons, revising them, getting approval across the design team, and implementation of the icon font required ongoing collaboration with designers, product managers and engineers.
