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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/NorthmanTheDoorman on 2025-01-22 13:55:58+00:00.
I was wandering into the fossdroid store to substitute some of my gplay apps with opensource ones. A problem I encountered is that 50% opensource apps have an icon that sucks, 25% don’t even have one, and just 25% have a decent icon.
I might be shallow but I think icons are important for the wider adoption of apps, it’s the first thing people see. Also, maybe on pc it is less of a problem since much (in Linux particularly) is launched without even having to interact with an icon. But on android how good/explicative an icon is directly determines how fast you can track and open it.
Enough bitching and to a possible solution, my girlfriend is a graphic designer and I had her make a couple of icons to donate to developers of apps I use, we gave them a bunch of variations and they chose which one they preferred and told us what to tweak. Nothing special, it took her less than half an hour, and it was a fun activity for us to think about it. Obviously it wasn’t a professional work but better than nothing for a project that right now doesnt have the resources to commission a professional.
I feel that if thwre were an easy way for people to donate icons many students/graphical designers would do it in their spare time, just to exercise and maybe create a portfolio.
What do you guys think?