Icon Design

I designed a set of icons to be used for popular IBM tools on the company's internal homepage. This is a smaller subset of the collection that I designed. The previous icon set was all one color and difficult for users to differentiate. I wanted to keep the icons consistent in style and color palette, but unique enough for users that need to quickly find and access a tool.

There was a need for a generic set of icons to be used for different categories throughout IBM HR and Tools directory sites. These icons would represent different sections of HR content and act as placeholders for sites and tools without custom icons. I used a line illustration style for these icons, so they would work well beside other style icons and content on different pages. I also used similar shapes to the Homepage icons seen above, so there would be a correlation between similar tools.

I designed a set of error message icons for each widget and page on IBM's internal homepage. I kept the style simple, as the icons sit within cards on a larger page. There are scenarios when a single widget may have an error, or when every widget is down at the same time, so I wanted to keep the designs consistent so they all work together to convey the same message.